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"FacebookPinterest\n\nRapper Tinie Tempah may have popped on to our radars initially because of his music but recently the musician has become a mainstay in the fashion world, supporting London-based designers through his work with London Collections: Men and dressing to kill doing it. And Awkward car exits aside, we have to give Tempah props for always being finely turned out, kind of like how we found him at today\u2019s Burberry Prorsum show (in Burberry of course). We chatted with him just before the start of the show to find out how he got involved with London Collections in the first place, what it\u2019s like to perform in front of the world, and just how sweet it is driving that Mercedes.\n\nGQ: How was London Collections: Men for you? You seemed to be everywhere during it.\n\n Tinie Tempah: It was epic. Since we launched the last London collections in June I just feel it\u2019s grown ten-fold. There was so much more of an international presence this time around, the showcases were incredible, the schedule was packed. It was just nice to see a lot of British designers showcasing their stuff.\n\nGQ: How did you get involved with it in the first place?\n\n TT: I got a personal request from Dylan Jones (editor of GQ UK) who\u2019s on the British Fashion Council menswear committee. That was an honor, I was touched.\n\nGQ: And so you\u2019re here now supporting Burberry...\n\n TT: I know this is amazing. I\u2019ve always been a fan of Burberry for a very long time. Over the past year, year and a half I\u2019ve been wearing Burberry a lot.\n\nGQ: Well I was going to ask about that bomber at the Olympics\n\n TT: That was kind of like my debut, in that exclusive jacket, and ever since then we\u2019ve just sort of hit it off.\n\nTempah at the London Olympics closing ceremony in Burberry Prorsum\n\nFacebookPinterestGetty Images\n\nGQ: What was that performance like? It is even describable?\n\n TT: Memorable, memorable, something I\u2019ll never forget. It\u2019s not everyday you can say oyu had 3 billion people watching you at one time.\n\nGQ: Well that car you were driving around in London, the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, was pretty memorable too. What\u2019s driving that like?\n\n TT: [laughing] It\u2019s really fast. It\u2019s really fast and has red interior. That\u2019s all I can say.\n\nGQ: So what\u2019s your next project on the dock?\n\n TT: The second album, Demonstration, is all finished up and we\u2019re just waiting for the middle of the year of the year to release it, hopefully it should be out by summer. And other than that just continuing where we left off. I feel like we had a really good few years off the back of the last album and the whole fashion thing has been great, so planning on more of that."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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