Devlin puts his skills on the mic down to The Bard's work and a daily dose of word play.
The Essex rapper said: "I've done The Sun's crossword all my life. It's been really great for my vocabulary, which is great for writing lyrics. It keeps the old grey matter firing."
The other most important influence in the rapper's life is The Bard. He added: "I adored Macbeth at school. I'm no expert but the way Shakespeare employed double meanings and metaphors have really had an effect on my song-writing."
Devlin is frank about where his life might have led if he hadn't had music to focus on. "There's every chance I could be inside," he admitted. "Some of my friends are. Or, I'd have a dead-end job.
"There's such little opportunity in Dagenham that people get caught up in trouble."
Courtesy of www.thesun.co.uk/
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