First person

Scroobius Pip: 26, rapper

My name comes from an Edward Lear poem about a creature who doesn’t know what it is. At the end, it realises it is simply its own creature.

I started off performing outside other people’s gigs. I had my target audience lined up against the wall, queuing to get in.

Nick Frew directed my Thou Shalt Always Kill video for 200 quid. It had more than two million views ...