Two million views, that doesn't mean anything,
just means that two million people watched my video.
'Round my way, it's pretty much the norm for people my age
'to just kind of fuck their life up.'
..Spirals rigid around their throats...
'Everybody has a dark side, a sad side, a happy side.
'I'm chaos, like,
'just the way that I act, the way that I talk,
'the way that I think.
'It's pretty chaotic, sporadic, like.
'I struggle to have like...a system.'
..Gonna phone the polis cos Joe's went missing
I sent that little prick into extradition
Told him don't come back until you've fucking quit the bitching...
I think that's probably one of the things I love most, the escapism.
But Glasgow, obviously, this place fuels it,
it inspires me to escape in new ways because there is fuck all to do.
How you gonna stop this? I don't need to pop clips
Once I drop this in the stove and whip it slow
I get all of you addicted to my flow You look a little timid though...
I have spent fucking so much time down here.
I used to dog school and stuff,
come down here and me and my pals would just sit
and kind of like listen to tunes and shit
and I'd be like, "Want to hear me rap?"
But, "Fuck up, man, you're shite!"
A lot of they boys tried to pure ridicule me
as if, "I want to be Eminem, you're a wee wigga," and all that.
"You just want to be black, you're just trying to act black."
I'm like..."What?!"
Since I was young, I always wanted to leave here.
I've hated it. It's like I love it, but I hate it.
Certain things about it, it's just small-town mentality.
Paisley is like... It's dying, it's on its last legs, man.
That's why there's just hundreds of this shit.
It just puts it in the fucking young people's heads - we'll go try drugs,
we'll go have unprotected, underage sex at mad parties
in mad houses, in mad places that we've never been before
and all that. It seems like there's a lot of things in this town
that's just pushing the youth towards pure debauchery.
Teachers and that, they're just...
They're smart in that field,
they're good at teaching that curriculum.
I don't want to sit and learn about Jesus.
He could walk on water, but he got took out by three nails.
But I was pure into all the astrophysics stuff,
but we only did that now and again,
so I ended up ditching the class a lot and stuff.
I just wanted to write raps.
Can I please just write raps?
MFT, MFT, MFTM!
Welcome to the life of a maverick
Gun sparks and your soul disappears like magic...
I do try, really, to not be violent.
If someone wants to put hands on me or disrespect somebody that I love
in some type of way, maybe my temper would get the better of me,
I don't know, but I just try and channel that frustration
through music cos then that way I'm being creative
and I'm making something that could benefit me
rather than put me in a fucking prison cell.
..When I'm honin' my skill, man.
I don't know how I write, I just write.
I'll just get an urge and it can be anything that sets it off,
a word or something in the street, something I see on TV,
something one of guys said, something that happens to me,
like anything and everything is inspiration.
Most of our time is spent just talking shit,
just having a laugh, but without that, making the music and stuff,
it wouldn't feel so natural. We're all each other's peers,
so if anybody's kind of stepping out of line
or saying something or doing something or whatever,
we all kind of keep each other in check.
Like, no matter how distant people become and that,
we're always there for each other.
Yeah, friend, my son
I can't wait till the flow comes back around again...
SHOGUN RAPS AT SPEED
..Yeah, friend, my son
I can't wait till the flow comes back around again...
SHOGUN RAPS AT SPEED, HIS FRIENDS LAUGH
We're all striving to the same goal,
we all want the same things,
even though we might come from different parts of Glasgow,
different parts of the country or wherever.
It doesn't matter about our heritage,
about the way we were brought up or anything, we're here now
and we're just trying to make sure that we are pushing positive things.
LAUGHTER AND VOICES
Look, Mum, I've got black friends now!
LAUGHTER
Shut up, man!
It's flow, man. I swear, no-one has got that flow.
It's that Shogun flow.
One day people will say that's the Shogun flow.
And he can't fuck up, man.
If he fucks up his bar then he brings it back round
and he does something that makes it sound like it was meant to happen.
Paisley's finest product.
Clearly.
What?
What do you want?
What is it?
Stop follow... Stop following me!
Stop following me!
'Artists are just kind of a wee bit schizophrenic,
'do you know what I mean?
'We have like characters and shit in our heads and we...
'You know what I mean, some people like to portray it as a character
'or they like to become that character.'
Even though I've not got a talent in something that's practical,
because music isn't practical,
isn't like the normal way to make a living...
It's a fun way and a chaotic way and...
you'll learn shit about yourself
that probably people who have a steady life will never learn.
At the end of the day, as long as we keep progressing as well,
we'll keep doing it, innit? That's it, that's it.
Not stopping until I get the Lambo,
the house, the swimming pool! THEY LAUGH
Sometimes I'm like...
I do want that life, I do kind of just want to be normal,
but then you snap back and you snap out of it and you remember,
"No, this is my purpose, this is what the fuck I'm doing."
Don't want to be like the normal guy from Paisley.
I want to go do my own thing.