Stormzy - Big For Your Boots

love it when a single drops and says, hi I'm an EVENT. a minute in I was just laughing at how good this was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOErVWlsxg

debut album is called Gang Signs & Prayer, out 24 Feb

oh ffs can a mod correct the spelling? Stormzy

z'd

xx

Already one of the greatest grime MCs

You're never too big for Adele >>>

I'm not really big on his other singles but this is exactly what I wanted from him.

beat's cool, very event-y

not feeling the verses too much, but he's obv v talented

hmm it's growing on me, and I'm def rooting for stormzy

there's perhaps just a hint of swedish chef in the chorus delivery...

is this a grange hill spin off?

Apparently every single song in this album is currently in Spotify's UK top 50. Whether that includes the Crazy Titch Interlude I have no idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn1Bd1PUHyc

Stormzy's verse is quite good. The rest of the song is complete garbage

saw one of his videos on BET here in the states

lol those are some muted guitars

Love this dude and maybe 3/4 of the album but I don't really see the point of trying to break him in America, especially like this.

coachella crowd looked into it

(Intro: Risse (sampled throughout)
In your town to–
In your town to–
In your town to–
–night

Aha... and here's the original a cappella:

https://youtu.be/ZHLVZwWxo4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHLVZwWxo4c

From Risse's "House Train", a tune from the golden era of Chicago pet ownership.

So those are the sample's lyrics! All my guesses resembled "critics fail to transcribe hip hop".

This track's my favourite so far this year, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNtZ5ZG9oxo

Second album coming soon apparently...

Did he really just send for Theresa May and tell the Daily Mail to suck his dick at the Brit awards?

If so <3

He did! From 1:35 on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJcK0DwOsI

Better night than Pogba all things considered.

don't tell Stella Creasy, she'll be trying do a citizen's arrest on him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ClYy0MxsU0

There's a new (non-grime) track. Fuck the government and fuck Boris

gahhhhhhhh Vossi Bop is the best!!!! why is he so good

I love that he's going to have a number one with a song that goes "fuck the government and fuck Boris".

the video is awesome.

So on UK radio, they edit out “Fuck Boris” but let him talk about giving someone a facial several times in the chorus. It’s a funny old world

that is the best music video I've seen in forever

Stormzy's headline glastonbury set is pretty good, only small complaints are: wish he would tone down the god stuff a bit, the band is worse than the original beats, also rapping over Shape of You was very much not good, could he please never do that again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwaflYUYrM

The new single is basically gospel with rapping. He's really not that great of a singer but big him up for trying something different.

only small complaints are:

also I realise it's churlish but dude you really don't need a union flag of any kind on your person

Not even a BANSKY union jack?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHSlLIP24E

He's back doing grime again

!!

incredible video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltNm4MdykBE

He doesn't sound anything like Wiley on this btw. Nice wee kid in the dinner hall reference for all you old school grime fans though

New album out next month.

https://www.factmag.com/2019/11/19/stormzy-heavy-is-the-head/

Tracklist:

01. ‘Big Michael’
02. ‘Audacity'(feat. Headie One)
03. ‘Crown’
04. ‘Rainfall’ (feat. Tiana Major9)
05. ‘Rachael’s Little Brother’
06. ‘Handsome’
07. ‘Do Better’
08. ‘Don’t Forget to Breathe’ (feat. YEBBA) (Interlude)
09. ‘One Second’ (feat. H.E.R.)
10. ‘Pop Boy’ (feat. Aitch)
11. ‘Own It’ (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy)
12. ‘Wiley Flow’
13. ‘Bronze’
14. ‘Superheroes’
15. ‘Lessons’
16. ‘Vossi Bop’

I knew the Sheeran feature was inevitable but still :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYwbGaSurCQ

Not really feeling it tbh

Michael Gove's been sending for him as well

I set trends dem man copy https://t.co/85mTHXaZDn

— Michael Gove (@michaelgove) November 26, 2019

This actually happened

Unbelievable levels of cringe

it’s all right, dan hannah chipping in makes it better

Big man ting!

— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) November 26, 2019

hannan ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7Zya6Hl50

Album out Friday and it's looking like it'll be at least as good as GS&P going by what we've heard so far

How big is Stormzy outside the UK?

Well, he's doing a tour here in May, and playing the Fox Theatre in Oakland as his Bay Area show -- it can hold almost 3000, though it's far from sold out yet. In terms of general knowledge, no real idea, but that's definitely not a promo club level show. (Kinda reminds me of when I saw the Streets/Dizzee Rascal over a decade back in LA at the Wiltern, though that holds only about 2000.)

He's doing Brooklyn Steel in NYC in june which is 1800 and likely will sell out. Seemed an underplay to me but maybe he'll add other shows.

^^ Thought the same with Chicago's Metro, which only holds 1,100.

What a day to release an album, eh?

This is fantastic. There's quite a lot of variety but it sounds more focused than GS&P. Even that goddamn Sheeran track has grown on me. Would have been nice to have some Spyro beats though.

same

the biggest improvement is in the r&b-adjacent tracks

ITV you lot can suck my dick for this https://t.co/Z5TybJtpbc

— HEAVY IS THE HEAD (@stormzy) December 22, 2019

Stormz has been a bit vocal about politics recently, and surprisingly enough there's been something of a backlash. If I didn't know better I'd say that there's a lot of people in the UK media (and on social media) who have a real problem with young black people expressing their opinions

They've fixed the headline and posted an update on Twitter. All those page hits must be tempting though.

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.

🤦🏿‍♂️

— 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