Tinie Tempah

I'm telling myself this is a young man's game.

This is the narrative.

This is kind of what people talk about.

I'm not really operating in that space anymore.

I'm in a different space in my life.

But then I guess thinking broadly, you know, you had Loyal Karno who released his project recently.

And I think it was, I think he had his son on the artwork or his son did a bit of the artwork.

And I think he was talking a lot about fatherhood.

At the same time, you know, music in the same way like, you know, TV, film and everything else is always evolving and kind of developing.

And so I would say when I first started out, rap was kind of niche and very kind of about a certain type of thing.

But from then till now, it's so much more broader.

yeah so um many of my peers have had kids and we talk about it i don't know if i hear it so much in the music like i know skeptar did a thing where and i think he had a video and then he had his pram in the video yeah yeah stuff like that and maybe he there's some of it in his narrative but we tend to talk about it more because a lot of people won't know but like at this stage you know there's a few rappers out of the uk that have done really well so

you know sometimes there'll be like a barbecue or someone will have a party and then everyone comes around and like the other day i went to see dizzy at the um the what is it the rugby and he was performing for i think it was uh there was saracens versus northampton yeah and he did a big performance and his kids were there and my daughter was there as well i saw them at the garden center he lives in a way it's dizzy rascal out for the day of his kids yeah it was like kids yeah so or what

One of my kids had a birthday party and then he brought his kids and then Jamie brought his kids as well.

And so I think in the confines of our own kind of private lives, it's all going on.

But in terms of the narrative, and this is why I think it's great that we're talking about this because I think it's actually progressive to start talking about it because it's very relatable.

And when I started versus where I am now in my life, as I said, I'm 37, a lot of my fan base...

would have grown up and will now have kids of their own.

Yeah.

So if I'm not sort of talking about it, then it's kind of like... It's strained.