Julie Adenuga knows she has a talent for disarming people and making even the most hard-shelled of celebrities feel comfortable sharing their business. “There’s no magic to it,” she laughs when we speak over Zoom, “I’m just a nice person!” There’s a unique pressure when interviewing someone who is known to be really good at interviewing people. After all, Julie Adenuga is recognised as one of Britain’s leading interviewers, from her early days at Rinse FM (the internet will never forget when she asked Jay-Z if he could ride a horse and he replied: “No, but I can ride a Porsche”) to her former role as one of Apple Beats 1’s presenters where she interviewed Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Little Simz and much more. Hailing from Tottenham, London, Adenuga is an influential voice in music and culture, and with her brothers, grime artists Skepta and Jme, is embedded into the fabric of Black British music and youth culture. So, yeah, my questions had to be good.
