Tinie Tempah

you can just kind of do whatever you want as long as it makes you feel good the barrier to entry is kind of so low now it's super easy to upload a record onto one of these streaming platforms as opposed to before where you had to press up the cds and the vinyls and obviously some people still do that but yeah it's the greatest time to be a creative i think it's just the hardest time to cut through the noise yeah and what about your kids would you feel excited

would you feel like oh no if they went into music or I suppose art I think if Mike I would prefer and I don't you know want to sound like one of those parents but I think it would bring me more joy if my kids went more down their mother's route of life we want to just make art and like you know we want to kind of exist in that space yeah I think

I think being a musician, I think comes with too many superficial pressures.

It's very look at me, look at me.

For the most part, obviously there's artists that you've never seen their face before or whatever, you know, but I think for the most part it is about image.

It is about, you know, not how much you weigh per se, but, you know, do you look good?

You're getting all this direct critique on your comments or whatever.

You've got a spot here.

You know, if you put on weight, it feels like you have to have super thick skin to be able to kind of survive and navigate that.

And I did it because obviously I felt like I had the talent to be able to do it and compete in that space.

But I also did it because I was shit at football and I was like...

I was like, this is probably one of the only things from where I've come from that could change the whole trajectory of my entire family's life.

And luckily, we've been able to do that.

But I think where my kids don't have those same sort of pressures.

Yeah, there's a part of me that feels like you don't understand.

But I think ultimately, you know, once you have kids, and I think I can kind of speak for everyone here, you kind of just want them to be safe and you kind of just want them to be happy.

And I think the fact that...

There's a part of me that's like, yeah, I definitely want you to prove yourself.

And, you know, you've got our DNA.

And so you've got to be able to.