Charli XCX

Yeah.

My mom grew up in Uganda.

Her and her family had been there for years.

She's Indian.

And she was removed from the country by Idi Amin in the 70s.

Right.

And then she came to the UK then and her and her family were kind of like, you know, rehoused.

And I remember she told me it was like when they touched down in the UK, weirdly at the airport that's kind of like opposite where my parents still live now, she'd never experienced snow before.

And this was like the first time she had ever been somewhere so cold.

And they gave all of the kids these like huge...

fur coats so she's kind of like stabbing off the plane wait why are they handing her a pimp coat yeah i don't know so she's like it was kind of a cool welcome i mean like when you go to hawaii you get a lay when you come to london yeah you get a giant fur coat welcome so they were kind of like swagged out i guess

And then my dad, he is adopted and his adoptive family is Scottish.

So, you know, we say Scottish, but he grew up kind of like near where they raised me.

And yeah, they met in a club on New Year's Eve.

How is it that I haven't been back for a minute?

Yeah, totally.

I mean, it's funny.

It's like I grew up, yeah, in Essex and I went to school in a town called Bishop's Dorkford.

And it was like a lot of white kids, you know, predominantly.

And then on the weekends, I would go and kind of visit my mom's side of the family who lived like in Crawley.