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They said what!? Artists are forever coming into the 91Èȱ¬, playing sessions and doing interviews. Here's a round-up of what they've been saying in the last few days...

Harlem rapper co-hosted last week. Despite being friends with Boy Better Know ( and ), he had this to say when asked him if a UK artist could ever pop in the US:

“I don’t think so, if they do it in a grime way - that’s just my opinion and I can always be wrong. The States is the origin of hip hop - where hip hop was born. If you look back to the way a lot of the reggae artists like King Cobra were doing things in the 90s - they were using hip hop beats. It's reggae, but it's hip hop. Grime belongs to the UK. They need to find a [different] medium, then I think it would work in the States. I’m not telling them to change their sound - who am I to do that? I don’t make grime music; I’m just saying what I think and what would work, because I know how grime is perceived in the States and it’s not good. I personally love grime, but if you ask other people in the US about it, they’re not going to know what you’re talking about.”

After stunning Norwich at , had a chat with Chris Evans on his Radio 2 , revealing that the way she makes music is quite like how she chooses to live:

“My house looks chaotic, but I know where everything is. There’s a calm that comes from that - having lots of stuff everywhere, but I’ve placed it carefully. It’s organised chaos, basically, which is sort of like when I make music - organising all that clutter and all those emotions. But when people I know who are really organised do turn up at [my house], they’re like, ‘What is this? How do you live like this!?’”

The new album by , Repentless, is their first without co-founder and guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who passed away in 2013. Kerry King from the legendary Californian thrash band told Daniel P Carter on the what it was like recording without him:

"The weirdest thing was actually being in the studio, and his presence is missing. It wasn’t making up the music; it wasn’t really anything other than the opinion that’s been there since day one not being there anymore. As the nucleus, it’s just me and Tom now and we have to look out for each other more than I’ve ever thought we had to in the past."

and are staging , their first-ever festival, this weekend. And it'll mark the beginning of a new chapter for the dance duo. They spoke to about the event and their wildly anticipated second album:

“It's still yet to have a release date and title, but what we can say is that at our festival, Wild Life, we’re bringing a whole new show and we’ll be playing a lot of new songs from the album. That’s going to be the point when we step out with a load of new singers and songs and say, ‘This is what we’re doing and this is where we’re going.’ Wild Life - and - is where people are going to get a taste of the new stuff.”

Italian dance music titan was on (watch the interview ), telling him about working with Donna Summer in the 70s and his new album, Déjà Vu, which features a whole hosts of guests, including , , and . He said this about recording music in 2015:

“Recording is different now because you’re not in the studio with the acts that much. Like with Donna Summer and other singers, you sit in the studio, you compose, you record, you do everything. Now with a lot of stuff, things are done through the internet. In the case of Sia, I sent her the tracks with a certain melody on and she did it by herself - she composed the top line, the lyrics, she sang the harmonies, then she gave me the tapes.”

Mercury Prize-winners played a blistering session on 6 Music last week. Before they did, asked them about their new album title, White Men Are Black Men Too:

“I think it’s confusing in the sense that it’s open to interpretation. Our interpretation is that it’s a positive thing, because it’s based on equality. It’s not just for the sake of things - it’s how we feel, as individuals and as a group. And it goes with the whole ethos of the group. You look at us and we’re multi-cultural - on stage it’s two white guys, two black guys - and even that’s a statement in itself. It’s tackling a lot of associations with colour and race.”