Skepta’s going to finish his year off with a massive show in London, playing Alexandra Palace on 2nd December – and it’s going to be streamed live by Apple Music.
“Man know where I’m from,” he tells Beats 1. “I know exactly where I’m from. Ally Pally, that was when we were younger, the ice skating rink where we used to go and literally just hang, rave. I used to go raves there back in the day, jungle raves, just go there to ice skate, get girls, mess around. To 360 it, I can’t wait.
“That show is going to be one of the best shows in my world. All the shows in the world that I loved, all the people that have come up when I was watching them, all rappers that thought, ‘Yeah man the message, everything they’re saying, everything’. The way that’s going to come together from the message to the visuals to the place where it is, that’s going to be one of the best shows in my world of all time.”
Earlier this year, Skepta won the Mercury Prize 2016 with his album ‘Konnichiwa’, beating out competition from The 1975, Savages, Jamie Woon, Bat For Lashes, Radiohead, David Bowie, Anohni and Laura Mvula, among others.