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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Vicky Jessop

Loyle Carner on his rise, headlining All Points East and how debts are killing young people's creativity

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.”

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