
Loyle Carner is a Mercury Prize nominee, a bestselling rapper and a Glastonbury sensation. Right now, however, he’s most excited about being made an honorary doctor at London’s University of the Arts.
It’s a particular moment – getting the “purple gown and the fancy Professor Quirrell hat” – Carner says, whose songs have been streamed millions of times. “I never graduated. I dropped out after my first year.”