Professor Green on Childhood Struggles, ADHD & Finding Community at Youth Zones (E421)

I was shocked to to just see the facilities here. They're incredible. Especially at a time when, forgive me if if this is the wrong number, but you know, there's been, I think it's a 70% closure of youth clubs. That was where I found kind of my home and my belonging. I guess it was the same for a lot of us.

We didn't really fit in elsewhere. I couldn't get to school. I just couldn't, you know, rage. There was no language which could help that process and it would be traumatic all the way up until I got to school and then I struggled a lot. What were you looking for, do you think?

Probably community, a space of belonging. I never really felt like I I fitted in very well anywhere else. Thank you for asking me something I've never been asked. That is the voice of Stephen Manderson, or as you might know him, Professor Green. So Steve grew up in Hackney.

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