J Hus Quotes

1. “I'm just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.”

2. “I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business.”

3. “I think I make ugly sexy and attractive. If I didn't do music, the girls that like me wouldn't like me, but I think I make ugly look good.”

4. “Being ugly didn't offend me. It's like: Yeah, I'm ugly. What? Make me ugly-sexy. Embrace it.”

5. “My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.”

6. “The women are my biggest supporters so I have to make good music for them too. Afrobeats is also often always about sexy women; we are simply celebrating the female form.”

7. “I don't think anyone can do what I already do. I just do it and it's unique, yeah.”

8. “I wanted to be an actor.”

9. “I don't like to believe in star signs and all of that stuff.”

10. “People always say I'm shy! But I'm not even shy! Like, if you knew what I'm saying in my brain. I'm in my own mind a lot. Even though I'm quiet I'm thinking about a lot of things.”

11. “I feel like I'm bipolar. I have my different moods and that. That's why my music exists in so many different worlds - this moment I'm feeling all raw, this moment I'm wanting to talk to a girl, the next moment I'm wanting to talk about spirit and be deep. Then I'm back to being angry.”

12. “People are always surprised when they meet me. I was in Nigeria and I went to one of the radio stations and they were like, 'Aww you look cute!' They were expecting me to look more rough, and I was like: 'Yeah, I'm polite!'”

13. “In year 10 or 11, I used to buy packs of doughnuts for 50p from Morrisons, and sell them for 50p each. I made loads of money. So I was a doughnut hustler!”

14. “I was a bit of a hothead. But I've changed my ways now. My bad years were probably from 2009 to 2014.”

15. “My friends used to call me ugly. Even my mum would say it.”

16. “I was feeling 'Lean & Bop' in the moment. It's brought me the most money. And when I'm doing shows, it goes off.”

17. “'Cause it's jail, everyone thinks they're bad. So this one guy was like, 'What're you gonna do, 'Lean and Bop' for us?' I was cocky, I was like 'Oh yeah? It costs five racks to see me lean and bop, It costs five racks to see me lean and bop.' But deep down inside it was hurting. It's moments like that make me hate - I feel like I sold out.”

18. “I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.”

19. “I think people can learn from my experiences, and I hope people can look at me and be inspired.”

20. “I've had a million hats - snapbacks or whatever. I'm really into hats.”

21. “I like to say there's no natural genre to my music.”

22. “I don't like to be put into a box. I don't wanna be given a title - nothing.”

23. “One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.”

24. “I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house… It just seemed normal to me, to be up to no good; it's what everyone did. But then you start to see friends dying and going to prison and suddenly it's not fun anymore.”

25. “Prison, I don't want to go back there again.”

26. “People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that we do live by certain standards, that we are moral people.”

27. “My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' era 50 cent.”