Labrinth: The Musical Genius Behind Euphoria

My tour manager came back stage and he was like, you know you almost killed someone today. Like literally it's like blackouts. Let's do this. I signed to Simon Cow because my manager at the time was like, a bigger check. You're in a label that is gonna prioritize you because you're not like anything on their label. This business comes around it and it says we can turn this into money, but allowed someone else to tell me what my next direction is. Yeah. Everyone was like, be a star, have an entourage and who you're gonna go out with and I was like, what do you mean? Oh maybe Sherload. And I was like, what? None of this shit means anything to me. I just was like, I'm not enjoying this. I didn't ask myself what I wanted because I was always accommodating what everyone else wanted. When did you realise that something had to change?

Well that's the deep one now. I was at a place where I couldn't actually talk to people'cause I had social anxiety. My manager was being weird, our relationship was breaking down, I had no confidence, I felt suppressed. I got like diagnosed with ADHD. When I read about what it's like, I was like, oh shit, it makes sense. I can't even hold a conversation with someone. Was it prohibiting your life? Yeah, 100%. Still does it today. But I've learned to be aware of it. Let's just do something, just let it go. Euphoria was the first time I felt people actually heard the roarest form of lab. Getting to that point with true freedom.

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