Mike Skinner
English rapper
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Professionally, receiving my first Grammy from Whitney Houston.
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My dog’s trust in me.
Turning my life around. Seeing the level of criminality I was involved with, and coming to the realisation that it was not the life that I should be leading.
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Around the holidays, because I get to spend them with family and friends.
Aretha Franklin. I mean, she’s Aretha! That says it all.
As a human who feels and loves just like everyone else feels and loves.
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