Over an apple juice, DJ Target sits down with us at a cafe in London and talks all things BBC Radio 1xtra and the rise of his book ‘Grime Kids’.
Target started out on pirate radio stations when he was younger and grew up with grime culture. Released on the 14th June 2018, his new book ‘Grime Kids’ has been a great success for all those who want to learn about the genre and where it originated from.
What did you want people to get out of the book? I wanted to try filling the gaps. There is nothing that has tied the whole Grime story together. I’ve been on the inside for so long and seen the whole thing from before it even started.
I can see you and Wiley on the cover. Are you still quite close? What did he think of Grime Kids? Yeah yeah we are! He messaged me about the book and he loves it. A lot of our stories about when we were growing up are in there.
So let’s talk about drill music potentially being banned, what are your thoughts? How would you ban music? We had a similar thing with grime as we were growing up 10-15 years ago. I don’t believe in banning a genre of music, that’s not the solution.
Buy Grime Kids here or in-store at WHSmith and Waterstones.
Words by Harpreet Dawett @HDawett
