BBC Newsbeat<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rapper Giggs and his son ML have dropped a new track together that touches on their experiences of autism.<\/p>\n The pair say Own Motion, a remix of a song originally written and and released by ML, explores themes of struggling to fit in and having to do things differently.<\/p>\n Giggs says his son’s openness about his autism diagnosis led the veteran UK hip-hop star to find that he also had the condition.<\/p>\n He recently told BBC Newsnight a lack of understanding when he was younger made him feel like he was “bad”, and he didn’t want his children to feel that way too. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n “I was always getting in trouble,” he told the programme. <\/p>\n “I always used to answer back, get kicked out of class every single day until I just thought: ‘Well, I’m bad’.”<\/p>\n The rapper says he took that message through life and that he ended up in prison twice before being “saved” by music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The track resonated with rapper Lickz, who also has autism.<\/p>\n She tells BBC Newsbeat she had a similar experience to Giggs at school.<\/p>\n “I did get sent out of class a few times for talking back or whatever,” the 20-year-old, from Croydon, says. <\/p>\n “I was distracted and I wasn’t focused on the lessons.”<\/p>\n The Rap Game UK star wasn’t diagnosed until she was 18 and says having artists like Giggs share their experiences helped her come to terms with her own.<\/p>\n “I was really upset because of the stigma behind it,” she says.<\/p>\n “A lot of people feel like people that have autism are slow or they’re stupid and because I’d never heard anything different it was devastating news to me.<\/p>\n “But then I learned more about it, I heard Giggs had it, people I look up to, so I was like: ‘There’s actually nothing wrong with having autism’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The track’s also inspired people like fan Ethan Appleby.<\/p>\n “One of the lines in the song – I used to be ashamed, I used to hide it, but now I own it – is really cool,” he says.<\/p>\n The 20-year-old also has autism and says it’s “such a wide spectrum”, so “it can be hard to figure out yourself and how you fit into things”.<\/p>\n He says it’s “awesome” for someone with Giggs’ influence to publicly say the condition doesn’t have to stop you from doing what you want.<\/p>\n “Music is so important for stuff like this,” he says. <\/p>\n “It can be so powerful.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"@vannibassett](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/17c1\/live\/65ea8db0-631c-11f0-837c-277543dfffb2.jpg.webp\")
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