Stormzy - Big For Your Boots

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