I see students like Cambridge students, when I was talking to them,
I always make it a proper point to let them know you lot are sick!
Honestly, because I'm a rapper it can sound corny, like: 'read your books guys! It's cool to stay in school kids!'
Genuinely, I've tried to be one of you, I tried, I literally tried, it was difficult!
It was so difficult, so I know firsthand.
When you say things like top 2%.
That's mad, I swear you ask them their grades, like A*, A*, A*.
Bearing in mind that an A at A-level is like phenomenal!
So A* is like when you have 95% on the test, that's ridiculous!
I've always considered myself like very smart, not to be arrogant.
Like GCSE, I got all the grades, got to AS was like 'this is tricky', got to A2- pfft!
Nah but I swear because I went through school, was a breeze, smashed GCSE, loads of A*s,
yeah, smashed them to pieces, then went to college and then it was like this is the actual like being a student
and it was so difficult that transition. I did alright at AS, I got A, B, C, D.
At the time I was gutted, I thought 'oh my god' but looking back that's not bad.
You've got people who are like A*, A*, A*, A*. I think when you get to that stage natural ability becomes second
to working hard which is the difficult bit because for someone like me who goes through school
we're so naturally gifted, but then no you can't because that juice doesn't work here.
When I was younger, mentally I was cool, the reason that I thought I could come to Cambridge was because
I was just thought I'm smart, nothing else. Luckily for me I wasn't tainted by what I'd heard from people
like society and that, I was just I'm smart I'm going to Cambridge, I didn't think about nothing else,
I didn't even think about my criminal record.
I was just like, 'I'm smart, I'm going to Cambridge.' That's it, that's the merit it should be based on.
Hopefully this will show, that's the merit it's based on.
If you're smart and you got the grades and you're intelligent then come to Cambridge.
I remember because Chelsea was my intern, while she was doing her GCSEs.
So on the day she went to pick up her GCSEs we were literally in the office calling her, like:
'Chelsea what have you got?' Like A*,A*, A*, she then gets these grades at A-Level and she goes to Cambridge
and we're like waiting and she got them and then she graduated and we're like, 'What did you get?'
FIRST! And you're just like 'Who are you? Who are you?' This is making me sad and happy all at the same time!
It's crazy, it's crazy, you see her and she's like little Chelsea. You're just like how has she got these grades?
Thank you for waiting, I'm always late sorry!
Because of where he's coming from in music as a rap artist, there's an image around rap that it is
rebellious, that it causes trouble. When he a prominent rapper, he's so popular, he's putting out a message
that education is so important and that will be swallowed up by so many young people who follow him,
so that just shows the impact he's going to have.