I heard this great interview on National Public Radio this morning as I was getting Moy Moy ready for school. It was with a British hip-hop singer who, along with his partner/composer Dan Le Sac, has suddenly become wildly popular both in the UK and the US. His lyrics are so interesting, for example, in one of the videos, he is shown looking at various albums and tossing them aside saying:

“The Beatles: Were just a band / Led Zeppelin: Just a band / The Beach Boys: Just a band / The Sex Pistols: Just a band,”  Explaining it in the interview, he said:

“It was just kind of pointing out that although the music is important and changes people’s lives, the people who’ve made it are just regular people like everyone else. I mean, their job is important and touches people’s lives, but it’s not as important as, like, your nurses and your care workers and things like that, so they are all just bands and they’re just blokes making music.”

But what really caught my interest was what he revealed about himself: Since the age of 4, Scroobius Pip has struggled with stuttering. What’s more, he sees it as a blessing in disguise: “If anything, I feel it’s been a benefit. It’s allowed me to grow. I was restricted with what words I could use because of certain [ones] I’d stutter on. I had to think a sentence or two ahead, and I’d be thinking, ‘I’m gonna stutter on that word’ so I’d be replacing it. So it kind of allowed me to widen my vocabulary without being much of a reader but more out of necessity.”