Stormzy - Big For Your Boots

Boomers: where are all the politicised pop stars? The Dylan, the Lennon, the Strummer of today? In my time, musicians had something to say.

Stormzy: Britain is racist

Boomers: Shut up you uppity thug!Stick to rapping, no one wants to hear you speak on politics.

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— Kojo Koram (@KojoKoram) December 22, 2019

missed this story when it broke yesterday so just googled stormzy itv and got the daily mail headline ‘Stormzy launches vile Twitter attack on the UK media over reports of him branding Britain racist’

clicking on the headline now takes you to the slightly less inflammatory ‘ITV apologises to Stormzy after rapper accused broadcaster of 'spinning his words' in coverage of him saying 'definitely, 100%' when Italian newspaper asked him whether Britain is racist’

i guess stormzy has solved racism in the uk, good work everyone

Is this a safe space to admit that the track with Burna Boy is a banger despite Sheeran involvement?

He’ll be on Fallon next week, according to his Instagram.

There's no time for that - he's too busy clashing with Wiley (if anyone's missed it). He's not mad, he's just disappointed

"I can hear all my stylies again" - a thread for Wiley's 'Eediyat Skengman 1 (Stormzy Send)'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yN1JBYTtF8

Cheers Toddla for this essential public service.

seriously

Better than the original, but then again I could have made an edit in Ableton without Sheeran's bit and that would have been better than the original as well

oh joy!

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.

it's a good read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2litzsFCwkA

How's about this then

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

this is........ sick

lotta bars!

new album will be very afro-heavy.

My album family 🤎 #ThisIsWhatIMean pic.twitter.com/ARZJVy7aSp

— Stormzy (@stormzy) November 22, 2022

title track and "my presidents are black" aside, i'm finding this is what i mean mopey and difficult to engage with

nobody listened to this huh?

bad album tbh

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

gonna echo sean and say skip it
still really really like "presidents" tho!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Snw1PkIKA