"I first met Damon when we did a song together, Feel Free, for my album London Town. I went down to his studio and he was working on his Monkey: Journey to the West project. We're definitely on the same page musically, but we're not too similar: it's important to be on a different wavelength as well. In the same way, I think Gorillaz are on a totally different wavelength to most popular music."

"When Damon explained the concept of the Plastic Beach album to me I was pretty blown away. He said the idea was that there was this place in the middle of the Pacific ocean and basically all the musicians from around the world were coming to meet at that one place. Once he played me some music I really started to get the idea. I thought it would be too crazy, the idea of two London rappers going back to back on an album featuring the Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music. But the crazy juxtaposition really works."

"It was good the way the track worked, as well. Damon wrote the music and just let us get on with it. It was my first time working with Bashy so we tried to do something different rather than just verse/chorus/verse. So we bounced off each other. One thing about the track that you might not know is that me and Bashy both had really bad flu. In fact, I think Damon was getting freaked out that we had swine flu and he was going to get it. We thought about cancelling the session at the time but in the end we soldiered through. It might sound upbeat but we were suffering out there!"

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