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Whether you want to ask about A Grand Don’t Come For Free, writing and directing his debut feature film or his Fred Again-inspired new fanbase nothing is off the table

Fabric Presents: the Streets centres on the club’s reputation as “one of the homes of bass music”, said Skinner, “and that’s some of the music I’ve been playing out the most.” His mix opens with a new Streets track, No Better Than Chance, and spans UKG and bassline crew TQD to grime artist Manga Saint Hilare and Fred Again. The record comes amid a busy period for the 45-year-old rapper, who has a looming set at Glastonbury and last year released and starred in his debut film, The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light, and an accompanying album – entirely written, directed and even financed by himself. You can ask him about that, the 20th anniversary of A Grand Don’t Come for Free, designing his own Reebok Classics, his frankness over losing “tens of thousands” on compulsive gambling in the early 2000s, being introduced to a new audience by Fred Again and anything else when he sits for the Guardian’s reader interview next week.

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