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Skepta enlists Pharrell Williams for a chorus that becomes the song's refrain: a blunt dismissal of industry talk reduced to spreadsheets and scepticism. The track pivots between celebration and exasperation, Skepta moving from boasts about magazine covers and chart presence to frustration with the machinery behind them. Contract clauses, A&R sharks, tour schedules that never materialise, the endless circulation of figures that mean nothing to an artist trying to build respect rather than just accumulate metrics. The production sits at a steady clip, giving space for Skepta's voice to land hard on the punchlines. He moves between swagger and weariness, name-checking collaborators, flexing new trainers, then circling back to the core complaint: all these numbers are making him depressed. There's a sharpness to the writing that keeps the song from becoming mere griping. By the time he's joking about giving his accountant fake email addresses and talking about vegetarian habits, the track has earned its refusal to play the game by its own rules.
"Numbers" is a track by Skepta, from the album Konnichiwa, released 5th May 2016. The track is 3:18 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Skepta.
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The main stage becomes The Grid as the festival introduces custom-built dance space The Warehouse.

In an interview with Esquire UK, he confirmed the project is close to being finished.

Más Tiempo - the Spanish translation of “more time” - is the house music label from Skepta and Jammer.