“Before I picked up the mic, I was doing a lot of breakdancing in my young days - trying to spin on my head, do the running man, pop and lock and all. I played a lot of Michael Jackson too and I could do the moonwalk so clean - I mean, super good.

“I was into dance culture, so when I was watching MC Hammer as a kid, I'd copy whatever he did. I'd copy the music video for "U Can't Touch This" and finish it so out of breath. I think "Pray" was on that album as well and that song is another banger, definitely. So many bangers from that man, but this song in particular was the one.

"The name is interesting, because he's just a rapper, not an MC. I guess it just happened to be his name, but I was still inspired by him on the mic as well.

“I was only ten when this came out, so when I was at my cousin's birthday party we'd always play little dance competitions between the kids. If they put this song on, I was definitely winning. My cousins, my family and friends would all be trying to do their thing too. I think I've got the footage of me at a party dancing for everyone and you can see how committed I was to dancing, you can see me shining man. All that extra work I was putting in was working. [Laughs]. I can still bust that up, I promise you!”

“This song is one of the first times I was listening to lyrics from an American artist and could properly understand it. You know sometimes man can get real confused when you hear these American artists, you get me? But with this track, I could understand everything.

"He's talking to the people that said he'd never amount to nothing, that doubted him and saying, ‘Look at me now’. When I listen to "Juicy", I think about how it's the perfect ending to life.

“I actually found this song in the P. Diddy, Busta Rhymes era. I think it was the first time we got something like Sky in the house, the first time you'd get that big dish on your house. There was this music channel called The Box and that's where I was coming across the American music videos, we never had internet or other ways to watch them. It showed me the different artists like Aaliyah too. It was all coming from the TV.

“This song came out in 1994 so he was already a star in some ways, but it's real interesting that he can think back to those times when he had nothing and write lyrics like that. Us artists do that all the time, we're still that same person and we're still not where we want to be. I'm hungry like that too and even though I've done a lot, I've got so much more to do."

“That's the sound, man, it goes back to them days, you know? Songs like these bring back so many good memories, sometimes you hear these songs at the right time and they end up living with you forever. I remember being 16 or 17 and finding this song, but here I am still listening to it.

“I was so in love with music when I heard it. If I'd been a producer at the time, I would have started making songs that sounded like Aaliyah, you get me? [Laughing] I'd leave that grime thing to the guys for a moment while I make something for the ladies. I'm looking out for the ladies bro, no slow jams on this album though. Maybe the next one, once I've figured out harmonies and that.

“Her music is inspirational. I'm inspired by all music, but sometimes you listen to music and it does something to you separately. It's calming enough that it triggers that thing inside me, that lets me know I need to take a second to breathe. A lot of her songs are like that for me.

"She died in an airplane crash in 2001, so when I listen to her music I take that on board. Not everyone gets to live these days, so It reminds me that I need to be thankful. So often I'll read news about some artist who died, but I never knew. Then I start getting into their music and I only appreciate it after they'd died - Prince would have been on this list if I had more choices.

“Sometimes maybe you don't hear a song at the right time, but you know what? It comes back when you need it. When you connect with a song, you don't always realise it immediately.”

“Mary J. Blige, man, she's another for certain. With this track, all I remember is them sitting down in the video with both their heads bopping, the beat just goes so deep. It's a singalong one, the singing and all of that is different, but she is gangsta in this one. You've got to see this music video too, it's a piece of rap culture. Watch it and you'll be like, ‘Now I get what Double was talking about.’ [Laughs].

“Method Man is always keeping it G. Whether he's the main man on the song or he's a feature on the track, he always makes it his own and so instantly recognisable. I think he's another one that got so much love from the UK, but it took us time. We would listen to Wu-Tang sometimes but it's this song that I loved the most.”

“A classic from 1989. Them early tracks like this I didn't have to learn the lyrics for. I used to listen to rappers like Snoop Dogg and write all the bars down to learn them, but with "Back to Life" I didn't need to do none of that. If I was sleeping listening to it, the lyrics would have somehow still oozed into me.

“It’s so great to support UK artists too from time ago, and “Back to Life” is one of them easy tracks that'll teach you to love and learn. I feel really similar about songs by Garnett Silk, you just have to hear them once and you feel like you could sing the whole track the next time you play it.

“Even the guys who are listening to nothing but heavy garage, these are the songs they need to come back to. You can't be listening to hard stuff all the time. That's what life is about, it's supposed to be a mixture of everything, you don't have to go hard every time. Why not take a rest for one day, and then go back to something hard?”

D Double E's D.O.N. project is out 23 October via Bluku Music