Tion Wayne on Having the First UK Drill Song to Go #1, Dubai Airplane Fight, Prison & More

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

Tion Wayne speaks about his rise, growing up in London, Pop Smoke, investing in his music, how his life changed since and more.\n\n-----\n00:00 Intro\n0:05 Tion on if he feels like he's the hottest rapper in the UK\n2:30 Tion breaks down growing up in North London and when he started to take music seriously\n4:20 Tion on how the UK Drill scene helped the region be more noticed commercially\n6:10 Tion talks Pop Smoke coming to the UK and music helping the two countries connect more\n9:15 Tion on his first few songs that blew up that happened to transcend different era's in UK rap\n11:00 Tion on how his first songs he made with Russ Millions went platinum and shying away from promoting the wrong things in his music\n14:20 Tion on always believing in a song and put money behind it, like his song "Body"\n15:50 Tion on how he feels about people monetizing things he did in the streets when he was younger on YouTube\n19:20 Tion on the thin line between representing where he's coming from and doing things to gain attention for the wrong reasons\n21:05 Tion stands on his statements of not needing recognition from the U.S. to make it\n23:50 Tion on how he linked up with Fivio Foreign on the "Body" Remix\n26:00 Tion talks about ArrDee and Central Cee\n28:00 Tion on making music with artists in other countries that don't speak English\n28:40 Tion talks about how his life has changed after acquiring fame and how security has changed\n30:20 Tion on if having songs that already went mainstream affects his creative process in the studio\n32:00 If he feels like he's more concerned since gaining so much attention and some officers even being a fan of his music\n33:00 Tion talks not growing up around a lot of w people, but having a lot of w fans\n34:45 Tion on how he was able to get his accounting degree, how the Nigerian culture really emphasized education and always wanting to start his own accounting firm\n37:45 Tion on what made him want to incorporate iShowSpeed in one of his music videos and speaks on KSI pivoting from streaming to music\n39:50 Tion gives Giggs his flowers for kicking down doors\n41:45 Tion speaks on the police setting up a fake recording studio as a sting in his hood\n43:30 Tion gives his advice to any artist who is in the position he was in 10 years ago\n45:50 Tion speaks on getting into it on a plane in Dubai\n47:45 Tion talks new music, releasing a mixtape soon and working with Blxst\n\n-----\n\nNO JUMPER PATREON\nhttp://www.patreon.com/nojumper\n\nCHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST\nhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te...\n\nFOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES\nhttps://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_...\n\nCHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/\n\nSUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz\xa0\n\nFollow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B...\n\niTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices