She works with organisations across the UK and Nigeria to support young people and "help them lead independent lives in safe communities". Julie feels very strongly that it needs to be two slices, to the point where she puts the question to her social media followers, just to prove her producer wrong. We couldn’t afford to have four bikes so we’d make bikes from old bike frames that we found, two different tyres, we’d just make them for fun… Maybe it was our Nigerian background of being loud and having overactive imaginations that we just did loads of things. JA: Because there’s a thing in my brain that goes, ‘That’s not good’. Sometimes I just wish I could live back there, to see what I’d write. ©2020 Bookseller Media Ltd rights reserved. He became a DJ. So now, all those ideas that you’ve watched from afar, you’re part of them in some way, you’re part of the conversation. Maybe I’m gonna have to know that I’m dying, that’s what upsets me about it. You, Junior, and Jason, for whatever reason, found something that you love and did it every single day. People like when I talk, so I keep doing it [laughs]. Adenuga is the brother of Beats 1 DJ Julie Adenuga and fellow grime artist Skepta. Is a portrait photographer, who’s published in i-D and British Vogue. In October 2008, he became one of a small number of unsigned artists to headline at the London Astoria.[11]. JME: If you could be a white man for a day. In the village that my dad grew up in, we saw how the people hustled to just be there and live. We all used to love music, and we grew up in a family that had a turntable sound system, vinyl — we used to consume music in loads of different ways. We’ve been together so long, it’s impossible for us to have any differences, no matter how long we’re apart. JA: Something that has affected my whole life to this day is being the only girl in a family of brothers. No, actually, I’ve got the gene — I just didn’t put it into practice. said: "Ify is an inspirational woman with an exceptional story that everyone needs to read. And I put on my Instagram story that I’m in L.A. and everyone texted me, ‘Julie, you’re in L.A.!’ – and then I spent seven days feeling so anxious because I didn’t get to see all the people that messaged me. © 2020 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. JA: I would listen to a lot less music. We weren’t poor, but we didn’t have a lot of money. And I haven’t done any of them. There’s so much that I want to say, but normally if I’m a fan I can still put that version of me aside and do the interview. And Eastenders is still there. JA: I have accepted death, and I am scared of dying. "Grime's coming of age". I still remember those moments and now it doesn’t feel the same finding new stuff — instead someone messages me, ‘Yo, listen to this new tune’; I get a text and someone else sends me a link to a new tune; you sent me a YouTube video. Debut exploring black masculinity to OWN IT! 'Very special' tale of belonging and identity to OWN IT! He has participated in all three of the Sidemen's annual charity football matches between 2016 and 2018. It’s quiet. JME: Are there any traditions, rules or societal norms that you think in time will change? Ahead of this, we wanted to find out more about the Adenuga sister – and who better to interview her than her own brother? She’s the sister who came through as a presenter on Rinse FM, now best known for her tastemaking show on Apple Music’s Beats 1. I was thinking, ‘This is nuts, these are people, like everyone I’ve heard on radio’.”, Skepta “After that, Wiley started taking us to Rinse, we’re going there with Roll Deep who have been spitting for years and I’m rolling there with one lyric, one 16. JME: It would be normal with us, but I’d have to ask bare questions about what happened — I’d have to believe you were dead. But I’ve accepted that I’m going to die. This page was last edited on 30 September 2020, at 15:03. Just chilling every day, having nothing to do. Even though some people are still trying to move forward, a lot of it isn’t moving forward. JME: You’re an auntie twice to two girls, you’re the only girl in this generation on our side of the family so you’ll play an integral role in their lives. Julie Adenuga meets this month’s Apple Music Up Next Artist, Billie Eilish. [20][21][22] Adenuga is the brother of Beats 1 DJ Julie Adenuga and fellow grime artist Skepta. It’s just time apart, other than that, nothing could ever change between us, and it’s not that we all went our separate ways at like 15. Why? Julie Adenuga was born to Nigerian immigrant parents and raised on the Meridian Walk estate in Tottenham, in north London. Julie and Mo’s banter kept you watching. Their sister, broadcaster Julie Adenuga, was the former voice of Apple Music Beats 1 Radio, and their brother Jason Adenuga is a producer, graphic designer and illustrator. I don’t like the avenue that new music comes through anymore. is to partner with Grime music label Boy Better Know to co-publish the memoir of Ifeomagwu “Ify” Adenuga, the mother of the label's founders. I went to L.A. last week. And there’s no more Top of the Pops! And then I found Comeback Season. JA: Yeah I guess. Because you want that feeling. He started out producing by making mobile phone ringtones. And it’s not even money, he could probably have afforded a table, it’s just we’re used to it.”, Skepta “You don’t know it, but back then not having anything to do, it gives you time to be creative. Adenuga is a vegan and teetotaler. I saw it as a quicker way for me to get into the game.”. "—" denotes single that did not chart or were not released in that territory. Julie Adenuga would only do a song with her brother Skepta if he was "amazing" because she only works with the best artists. That is the story of Ify Adenuga, the mother of the rapper Skepta, radio presenter Julie Adenuga, grime MC Jme, and visual artist Jason. Hattie Collins and Olivia Rose’s essential new book ‘This Is Grime’ is the first major work on the scene. At this point, Julie’s brother Jamie — best known as grime MC and producer JME — arrives, initially more reserved and measured than his younger sibling, but immediate in his agreement that yes, obviously you should never just put on one slice of toast. I just felt like I wasn’t with the people that I liked. Is that photoshop?! And then there’s Julie. JME: Who would you haunt if you were a ghost? He followed this single with another, "Sidetracked", which featured Wiley, followed by "CD is Dead", which featured Tempa T. These three singles are featured on the album, Blam!, which was released on 4 October 2010. JME “He always wanted to DJ, Skepta. [12], Jme's third studio album, Integrity>, was released on 4 May 2015. I don’t know how he got my number, but he rang me.”, Skepta “Wiley had heard of JME, and invited him to come to the studio, so we went studio – all of [Bow grime crew] Ruff Sqwad was there – and Wiley was like, ‘Why don’t you write some lyrics?’ I was like, ‘I can’t do grime, that’s for kids’ – I was 20 at the time and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy. It was on Old Kent Road, Tooley Street maybe, and we was just there like, ‘Rah.’ I’m looking at [Roll Deep MC] Scratchy recording and stuff, like, this is f**king crazy. In this exclusive extract the Adenuga siblings – Beats 1 presenter Julie and MCs Skepta and JME – discuss their upbringings on Tottenham’s Meridian Walk estate and the early days of Boy Better Know. Every now and again over the course of nearly two hours, Julie will pause to laugh at his very regimented line of questioning — “you’re good at this,” she tells him, with a smile; “I’m just asking questions, stop being weird,” he replies, with very sibling energy. That’s one thing that always burns me — I don’t know why I didn’t do it. is to partner with Grime music label Boy Better Know to co-publish the memoir of Ifeomagwu “Ify” Adenuga, the mother of the label's founders. The book will be released in hardback on 15th October. I don’t know where that came from, I just know that we didn’t have a lot of money. pledges solidarity with Movement for Black Lives. [24][25], Jme is known for his involvement with the Sidemen, a British YouTube collective consisting of seven YouTube personalities, and has appeared in their YouTube videos. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. Agenda with Julie Adenuga brings music culture to life. You’d be the only person who would explain it right, it would be wasted on mum or on Jason. The thing that I am scared of is the people that I know dying. And I thought, actually, if I didn’t put it on my story, I would have just had a good time with the people that I was there with. JA: NO, Jamie, and I hate it! I never did that. You don’t have to make it perfect, it doesn’t have to be a finished piece. Skepta’s younger brother, and Boy Better Know labelmate is the well known grime artist JME. What some might not have known is that the three siblings have another younger brother called Jason—and he's musical too. JME & Face) – Single by Lethal Bizzle", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jme_(musician)&oldid=981142910, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2019, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.