Tion Wayne speaks about his rise, growing up in London, Pop Smoke, investing in his music, how his life changed since and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 Tion on if he feels like he's the hottest rapper in the UK 2:30 Tion breaks down growing up in North London and when he started to take music seriously 4:20 Tion on how the UK Drill scene helped the region be more noticed commercially 6:10 Tion talks Pop Smoke coming to the UK and music helping the two countries connect more 9:15 Tion on his first few songs that blew up that happened to transcend different era's in UK rap 11:00 Tion on how his first songs he made with Russ Millions went platinum and shying away from promoting the wrong things in his music 14:20 Tion on always believing in a song and put money behind it, like his song "Body" 15:50 Tion on how he feels about people monetizing things he did in the streets when he was younger on YouTube 19:20 Tion on the thin line between representing where he's coming from and doing things to gain attention for the wrong reasons 21:05 Tion stands on his statements of not needing recognition from the U.S. to make it 23:50 Tion on how he linked up with Fivio Foreign on the "Body" Remix 26:00 Tion talks about ArrDee and Central Cee 28:00 Tion on making music with artists in other countries that don't speak English 28:40 Tion talks about how his life has changed after acquiring fame and how security has changed 30:20 Tion on if having songs that already went mainstream affects his creative process in the studio 32:00 If he feels like he's more concerned since gaining so much attention and some officers even being a fan of his music 33:00 Tion talks not growing up around a lot of w people, but having a lot of w fans 34:45 Tion on how he was able to get his accounting degree, how the Nigerian culture really emphasized education and always wanting to start his own accounting firm 37:45 Tion on what made him want to incorporate iShowSpeed in one of his music videos and speaks on KSI pivoting from streaming to music 39:50 Tion gives Giggs his flowers for kicking down doors 41:45 Tion speaks on the police setting up a fake recording studio as a sting in his hood 43:30 Tion gives his advice to any artist who is in the position he was in 10 years ago 45:50 Tion speaks on getting into it on a plane in Dubai 47:45 Tion talks new music, releasing a mixtape soon and working with Blxst ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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