Tinie Tempah

How much longer can I do this for?

Especially when I'm in a place where I wouldn't say like not enjoying it is the right term, but I just don't feel fulfilled.

Like I don't feel connected.

to it it's just i don't feel yeah as connected to it i feel like i'm a hamster on a hamster wheel and i'm reaping the benefits but so many other people that are attached to what i'm doing are also reaping the benefits and am i doing it for me am i doing it for them am i doing it because like i don't want to let them down like the fact that i was even thinking about all of that stuff for me was enough to be like okay mate do you mean you found someone lovely like just

chill out do some normal stuff go on normal holidays where you're not just going from like airport to venue to sound check to to doing the show back to the hotel back to the airport like just just take a break and just do some normal stuff and you might hate it you might love it let's see and then i think

Getting back to it now, one of the thoughts or epiphanies I had is I've done all this cool stuff and I might have kids and they might not ever experience it.

It might just be a thing that happened in the past.

That was one of the motivations.

motivations like you know which we can go into yeah in relation to like kids and being a parent that was one of the things like wow like I've done all this cool stuff like yeah and my kids may never directly experience it it will just be something I told her oh you know this venue here that we've gone to yeah your old dad's oh daddy sold it out before like no I can't do that I'm not old I'm not 50 I'm not do you know what I mean I need to apologies to all those 50 year olds listening

yeah you know what you're saying yeah you know as you're saying as a rapper you know aging out and all this kind of stuff i was like no man like there's rappers that are as successful if not more successful than me that are older than me like much older than me so so why stop and then i looked at like my monthly listeners and at the time i was on four million or something like that but now we're like at 6.7 or something again

But I was like, rah, like I've still got like millions of monthly listeners, people that are just listening to all my back catalogue.

I kind of owe it to my kids and I owe it to these amazing fans to kind of get back into the mix.

And so the other day when we did the Sidemen show, I was able to bring my kids along and they were able to kind of watch it.

And some of my nephews and nieces and whatnot.

and they were able to watch it and like i don't know what it's gonna do to them like because they're still at ages where they can't totally like explain or articulate how they felt or what it means to them but i'm so glad that like i made that conscious decision and i had that thought because being motivated by your family and by your children i would say is one of the

one of the most powerful forms of motivation, like wanting to do things for them.

And also, if I'm just being totally honest, I think whether or not I came back to music, they would have been fine anyway.

But knowing, you know, us, especially us two growing up in a similar way, knowing that

through the success of like you know music and the arts i've been able to create social mobility for my immediate family and open doors that would have never been open to us before like i want to be able to do the same thing for my kids like i know that i can pick up the phone to across any sector tv film film might be a bit harder actually

TV podcasts yeah definitely podcasts fashion music and say oh you know my kid wants to come and do like a work experience thing here where they want to come and see how this works or and the doors would be open um