When Adenuga and Sian Anderson started their Rinse FM show Mewzik Box, they weren’t exactly technically adept. “We’d just stop and start tunes,” Adenuga told The Fader. “We had no DJ experience, but we just played the music and were talking rubbish. It worked. Luckily.”

“[I went] through these phases of like, doing girly things, and thinking, I don’t like this,” Adenuga told The Fader. “Finding myself was basically going back to the original tomboy that I was, and remembering that I was cool.”

“Growing up, I never knew what I wanted to do,” Adenuga admitted in Huck Magazine. “I didn’t have any aspiration to be anything.” But brothers Junior and Jamie – aka Skepta and JME – opened her eyes. “More than anything, Junior and Jamie didn’t make me feel like I wanted to be a creative person, they just made me realise that it was possible to be one. A lot of my life was spent understanding what was possible and then realising and acting upon that.”

In 2016, Adenuga and Sian Anderson launched One True Calling, a series of workshops to prepare 16 to 24-year-old Brits for a media career. She’s also a mentor to students at East London Arts & Music. And she’s even happy to help out music industry hopefuls who slide into her DMs – mentorship, she told Billboard, is “sometimes literally someone just sending a private message on one of my social media accounts”.

In 2016, Adenuga wrote and presented Skepta: Greatness Only, an Apple Music documentary on her older brother. In 2014, she hosted PLAYit, a TV show focusing on rising independent artists. She’s a music video star, one of a band of female brilliance in Stormzy’s "Big For Your Boots" video. And she sings too, popping up as a vocalist on several of JME’s tracks as well as sticking a tune or two on Instagram.

“There are places that some artists will never be, because they are a person that isn’t normally accepted in that world,” Adenuga told The Fader. “There are some artists that will never be on a late-night TV show, because they don’t fit into a certain box, because they don’t adhere to certain rules. I would change that. All platforms should be accessible to all artists.” She added, “I need to make a late-night TV show!” Julie, I couldn’t agree more.

Adenuga’s committed to securing grime, only officially recognised as a genre on Spotify this year, the respect it deserves. “I just want to make sure people understand it,” she told Notion Magazine. Her influence doesn’t stop with grime – as she said in The Guardian, “Every time I play [UK genres] drum’n’bass or jungle, I’ll get a lot of people who are just hearing the genres for the first time, and who are like mesmerised by it. So that’s a great feeling.”