That new GQ piece with Gary Younge is as good as people are saying.
There was no single moment, person, book or event that shaped his world-view. He imbibed it less through his mother’s milk than her sweat. Stormzy is a child of crises. He was nine when the Iraq war started; 15 when the financial crash hit; 17 when austerity started; 18 when riots spread through Britain like a bushfire, with young people looting and confronting the police in several English towns. He could not avoid it. His intervention is authentic. This is not the story of a musician who is getting into politics but of politics coming out of a musician.
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
it's a good read
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 8 February 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2litzsFCwkA
How's about this then
― paolo, Friday, 23 September 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
Like a whole miniseries in 9+ minutes.
I think of Stormzy more than anyone as someone put on pause by the pandemic, at least specifically in the U.S. He had a summer 2020 tour set here, was just starting to do Fallon and an hour-long Charlemagne interview when things shut down.
Anyway, love the new video, and this seems to put it into context for an outsider like me:
Stormzy is not just a great artist but a Black-British archivist, documenting history and giving people their flowers while they are around & even when they’ve passed on too soon (Jamal Edwards💐🕊) Mel Made Me Do It pic.twitter.com/p6nlXLsfw1— tobí rachel (@TobiRachel_) September 23, 2022
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 23 September 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
this is........ sick
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 25 September 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
lotta bars!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 05:32 (one year ago) link
new album will be very afro-heavy.
My album family 🤎 #ThisIsWhatIMean pic.twitter.com/ARZJVy7aSp— Stormzy (@stormzy) November 22, 2022
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link
title track and "my presidents are black" aside, i'm finding this is what i mean mopey and difficult to engage with
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
nobody listened to this huh?
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
bad album tbh
― sean gramophone, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
i wasn't impressed by the singles, he's just not very good at that sort of saccharine soul
might get around to the album but there's a lot to listen to in eoy season
― ufo, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
gonna echo sean and say skip itstill really really like "presidents" tho!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Snw1PkIKA
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link