- published: 01 May 2016
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Joseph Junior Adenuga (born 19 September 1982), better known as Skepta, is an English Grime MC from London, born to Nigerian parents in Tottenham, north London.
Skepta has released five singles off his third studio album Doin' It Again (first with a major label), titled "Bad Boy", "Rescue Me", "Cross My Heart" featuring Preeya Kalidas, "So Alive" and "Amnesia", as well as a video for the Hello Good Morning (Grime Remix). Three singles charted in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, with "Rescue Me" being the most successful at number 14. "Cross My Heart" came in at number 31 and dropped out of the Top 40 a week later. Doin' it Again spent 3 weeks in the top 100 album charts and debuted and peaked at number 19 on its first week of release.
Skepta recently signed a four year album deal with Island records at Universal. This is known to be Skepta's first official signing to a major record company and was confirmed by Skepta's using his twitter "just a signed a album deal at island records universal, safe for the love #bbk"
Timothy Westwood (born 3 October 1957) is an English DJ and presenter of radio and television. He also presents the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood.
During his career Westwood has DJed for many radio stations, including the newly formed radio stations Kiss FM (which he co-owned) and LWR in the 1980s, followed by mainstream station Capital FM (from 1987). In December 1994, following a shake up of Radio 1 by the then chief executive Matthew Bannister, he was given the new and somewhat innovative national Radio 1 Rap Show. He was the Radio 1 Rap Show's first presenter and has been its only permanent presenter; he is now one of Radio 1's longest-serving broadcasters.
His first broadcast on a legal station appears to have been on 23 March 1985, when he was already working as a pirate DJ.[original research?] He was a guest on a BBC World Service programme called Meridian where he discussed early hip-hop culture in London. After appearing in the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary Bad Meaning Good, which was an early work of his own company Justice Entertainment, he achieved TV exposure in the late 1980s on the ITV programme Night Network, produced by London Weekend Television.
Skepta - Man (Official Video)
Skepta - Shutdown
Skepta: 'Konnichiwa' Album Launch
Skepta - Ladies Hit Squad (ft D Double E & A$AP Nast)
Skepta - Nasty
Skepta: Top Boy (The Documentary)
Skepta featuring JME - #ThatsNotMe
Skepta feat. Young Lord - "It Ain't Safe" (Official Video)
Drake & Skepta Shut Down Section Boyz Headline Show | @drake @skepta
Skepta - The Tim Westwood Mix
Skepta "Top Boy" (Official Video)
Skepta/JME Rhythm and Gash Freestyle
You've spent your whole life looking for love
You couldn't find anything
You've been searching for trust
Keep your baggage in the hallway, it's okay
You've been driving the wrong way, all day
Little did you know, you're somebody's everything
Yeah, yeah
The phone in the surgery just keeps on ringing
She just wants to feel like she's alive, so the doctors are making a killing
Fighting and losing the battle against Photoshop while the papers are winning
Still no sign of the finishing line but way too far from the beginning
Her body wasn't growing as fast as all the other girls in the school
She eventually started to catch feelings when everybody was hurling abuse
Swerving the truth, Mum's telling her she's killing her body but still
She's felt like the abuse has left more scars the any type of surgery will
Now she's all grown up, if only Dad would of shown more love
Then she wouldn't be seeking attention from all these other guys in the club
A good girl in a wrong dress, confidence got taken away
Now all she's left with is a complex, another victim of a next sexual conquest
Yeah
As a wise lady once said, love the skin you're in
Because beauty has no rules
If they're trying to sell an impossible dream to a fool
Then, you ain't the fool to buy one
These pictures and publications have got people packing their bags for a journey that has no destination
But who am I kidding?
Every day I'm with different women
Pocket full of twenty pound notes, she likes receiving and I like giving
So I just sit in my chair, vision impaired, she's kissing my ear
And I'll probably say some hypocritical shit like "why's a pretty lady like you gotta work in here?"