Stormzy on Race Inequality in the UK, Love Life, New Music and Politics | SWAY’S UNIVERSE 

Special K haha same

Same

Same here👌🏾🙂

On that press run!!!

Thank god, this audio is way better

FACTS 💯 put my daughter and son onto Stormzy 2 years ago and now they feel ahead of the curve.. my son loves him..

I agree. But he doesn't get his point across well or quick. Not the best at interviews

Fam, you're everywhere Stormzy.

Beede Bawng lmao, if you know I’m everywhere that means you are too

True Bee yes lol. He tries to go deep and fumbles . It’s understandable tho, he prob feels a bit nervous. Same thing with Dave, he’s worse then useless when it comes to interviews. Both great rappers tho and both in my top 5.

Want a tissue RACIST!?

Real talk! Anyone that says you're playing the race card are cowards who can't handle the truth.

But it’s different in the UK , that’s the thing. You don’t have privileged shits running around yelling racism, it’s literally a bigger problem there

@@saintmichaelsmorningstar6451 Not in my opinion

Take everything this guy has said and replace it with white and you’d all be calling him a white supremacist. Also, he talks a lot about racism and how bad he’s had it but never backs it up with examples.

So dumb lol how can you be a black supremacist when your the race being oppressed 😂 hilarious

@Emptiness Form lol what fuck are you on about , come back to reality

not even dark. just imagine if she looked like her mom complexion. cause i will be honest many folks thought she was white. even black and white brits thought she was white until they saw her mom.. but brits a very acceptable of mixed types. and the closer you are to white the more of a pass you get. so technically people are just against her less to do with race cause she dont even look black. its more to do with her background. she is a nobody from compton. who was an actress.

thicky 😭😭 omg wtf raw

If you look into the past every woman who married into the family was harassed and humiliated by the press. Diana, Sarah Ferguson, Sophie. Even Kate Middleton, her family were investigated and hounded. Her outfits and weight obsessed over. The press agreed to give the boys a break when Diana died, since they were grown they were not given a pass either. Tabloids in the UK are toxic.

If anything she didn’t do her homework.kings have abdicated before over their relationships those royals are just a whiny bunch

Agreed 100%... we NEED to get UNCOMFORTABLE in our conversations

If you talk about it too much, you'll have the opposite effect to what you intended...

@@QueenBthatsMe777 If you attack people, don't be suprised if you get unintended results though

It's not about attacking. Its about having conversations. People are uncomfortable with the unknown, that can turn into anger and fear. The more we talk to each other and hear each others stories, the more we know about each other.

@@laurenmacdougall4569 I agree that talking and openness are important...but preferably without sweeping judgments and confirmation bias as displayed by young Stormzy here...who is clearly a bright young man who in his own words 'wants to stand for something'. He'll achieve nothing by whitewashing Britain as racist, which is patently harsh and unfair...all by distilling all problems into race/racism, when they're clearly far broader than that. I suspect he'll grow out of this

Britain doesn't have the same history of racial friction as the US does...there's less to talk about

@@mrdkb6440 Sure, the two Man City fans, men in their late 50's have been given 5 year bans. Your example just proves how racism is dealt with here You have the Bulgaria match where the black England players were given sustained abuse, and the whole England squad, management, fans wanted to defend them. Their disgust was palpable. But you don't want to mention that. You only care about the two old fellas.

@@mrdkb6440 smoking on that stardawg scrolling through comments.... bruv u just got demolished. When u go jail all a man has is himself yes? Just look at our jails.. I'd be surprised to find out any jail in England is divided by race. You America's problem is your all racist to each other it's a real shame bruv trust me i feel for all of ya how they got u all by the balls

angloirishcad Maybe,But! there is still talking to be done.And it depends on if your a minority or not.If you aren’t a minority I guess you don’t want to talk about it.

@@kimwright6377 I wouldn't assume that actually...but labelling will get us nowhere

;D Thaaaas right

Real deluded, yeah.

SufamiDan how?

toby he says a lot without backing it up. He prays on the naivety of youths and makes them feel like they have a victim complex.

@@sufamidan1006 Personally I believe his points were valid and it's not like he coulda explained the reasoning behind every single one of his points in the space of that interview anyway.

toby he didn’t explain one.

Facts

Na people dont like her because shes pulling Harry out of the family. No one cares about her colour..

@@LB_die_Kaapie Harry's a big boy and the media been shittin on her from day 1, if they want to go independent with their savings and inheritance and stop being part of that sham that drains further tax money then more power to em fuck the family. The media practically killed his mother he ain't gonna let them bring down his woman as well.

@@brzy1188 Lmao media loved her the first 12 months of her marriage dont lie. When we saw Harry change that's when the media went off on her. And noone cares if they want to live their life. The problem is people want them to lose their titles and everything that comes with it if they do leave..

I wonder too. Since we are wondering, I wonder how can a black artist that sells out shows of white audiences while chanting that UK is racist and fuck the white democratically elected prime minister can claim to be oppressed because of his skin colour? A 16 million pound worth millionaire performing for you about oppression? If you go to the BBC in the same country they are offering jobs where white people “need not apply”. Does this sound like the making of a white supremacist nation? Or a white guilt ridden nation, terrified of being racist?

Why mention liberal it’s all the middle class

@Origins686720 Take your tin foil hat off dude. As much as Ed's music isn't for me you can't say he's not a talented guy. As for Stormzy, he's a platinum artist who deserves what he has off his own back. Wiley's a bitter old man, Stormzy's grafting. Find a new hero.

I’m sorry but you are talking utter bullshit! Ed isn’t more successful because the colour of his skin. Ed’s debut album was released around 5 years earlier than stormzy and more people in general enjoy and listen to Ed’s genre of music over stormzys. To say Ed is more successful because of race is retarded.

Origins686720 so your saying Ed is only successful because of Wiley ?

@Origins686720 Wiley is fixated on grime. I get it, that's his passion but to try and hold others to his beliefs? He acts like he's entitled to tell others how to earn. You talk about "industry plants" whatever that means, like you know more. You can't put music out there for all to enjoy and purchase and not expect people to be infuenced. Wiley doesn't own grime, Ed is a ginger twat but Stormzy will stand the test of time. Nice chat boy buy I'm off down the park to find some puppies to kick ✌

I walk these streets on the daily, 9/10 of the homeless people I see are whites. But that doesn’t fit the narrative.

@Emptiness Form you american?

Wi o in the UK the white people are often the minority so I don’t buy that. In the places I roam, Muslims and blacks are very much the majority. London being a prime example, the countries capital city.

I’d also note that young white boys in school are struggling more so than any other demographic.

Most of the black guys on the building site I work on are on more money than all of the white guys would you say that's racial inequality or does that not give you white saviours the same tingly feeling when it's the other way round

Perhaps he should go and live there since the UK is such a horrible, racist place.

Bob Bob exactly

@@BobBobOnRU-vid Ok boomer

@@JR-iu8yl Ok New Worlder.

@@BobBobOnRU-vid dont listen there the racist traitors! Hopefully they puss off a d make there own countries great since they are not part of ours!

Courtney keep telling people about him. We’re so proud of him in the UK.

I’m from the UK and he’s ordinary 🙄

Wretch 32 is better. Well, it depends if you're more into lyrics or catchy beats. Stormzy has the beats but Wretch is by far the better lyricist.

Lol he's not even the best we got.... just ed got him a boost, he's good but he's not top 5

Shut up was theOGs

There's not a big race issue in the UK though

What does he rep other then nasty treatment of women and street Crime cos the police are all against us rubbish. Ime born raised council estate and all I see, it's guys like this white or black out for themselves making everything hard for everyone else and blaming it on the system making excuses for them being the way they are. As the greatTupac wood say both black white will smoke crack tonight, you say you have love for the streets how the f is that so when you make the problems in it, making it hard in the 1st place , so f stormy and the click you claim .

Well, before I make assumptions who are your friends? What does racism mean to you? We’re you born in Nigeria? I’ve lived here for 30 years so I’ve got a lot to educate you about.

Well said mate

@Emptiness Form Mate im not asian but trust me ive seen it enough if you are a poc it will be more difficult for you in the uk. No matter of your black or brown

@Just Getting By I knew there would be a comment like this 😂😂. Its not the olympics we arent competing about who has it the most difficult we are just speaking about OUR reality

@Just Getting By Pretty much the amount of times im stereotyped. The thing is a lot of the struggle we face isnt obvious its just very subtle and is heavily due to the institution itself you get me?

@Just Getting By Nah I understand I was just once again stating my reality that's all. But its good that these conversations are being had so that society can improve at the end of the day cos if we avoid this conversation it will just get worse sadly

Shut up

Well he did wipe away a shed load of sweat at the end after a cut (48:35) so i'm assuming he did and it got cut for some reason. I'm pretty sure he would have been able to deliver a solid performance though. Intriguing.

@@BadgerUKvideo indeed

He can’t do it, some can some can’t.

Lyricism seems to be a thing of the past.

😩

I second that...

Apparently he's a ga

ESheks he’s always showing ppl love and putting them in a position to win

Layonie Jae agreed!!!

A J black is beautiful? As in, are you simply saying that black is objectively beautiful? Are you just saying that some black people are beautiful? Isn’t that obvious for any race? Or is beautiful used in a relative, racially unequal way? As in more beautiful than asian or caucasian for example? If so what is so special about the black race? I’d say the black race is equally beautiful as the next race, it is not particularly beautiful. But tastes are tastes. I don’t wanna argue just trying to figure out yours and sharing my taste as well.

@@aienbalosaienbalos4186 Stormzy chats shit lol he knows nuttin bout politics

All he is doing is irresponsibly deepening divisions between groups

Relax

@@aienbalosaienbalos4186 black is beautiful, and when people feel threatened by you they tend to put you down and black is beautiful because we make this world tick without they wouldn't be all this wealth in the world, god chose bless us with natural beauty and natural wealth which the rest of the world are constantly stealing

Stormzey has always said he is reaping the benefits of those artists who came before him . Plus his only 26 so his influences are early 2000s grime /uk rappers. But yes England has many talented black artist from early

@@leonpalmer2429 your Kinda making my point, Rappers in the 90's were being influenced by music from the 70's and 60's, different genres like Jazz, Funk, Rock all sorts, Stormzy is going as far back as early 2000's,? and Grime mainly, really? Have you heard of Loose ends, Soul to Soul, Don-e, Omar lye Fook, Demon boyz, MC Duke, London Posse, MC D & Silent eclipse, Mud fam, smiley culture, Aswad, Maxi Priest, Blak Twang, Chester P and task force, Roll Deep, Heartless crew? These are just a few of the Giants that paved the way so that Black music as it stands today can have a platform. And this aint all there's plenty more

@@dizmop look this comment made me laugh . I grew up on the majority of the artists u mentioned I was there in the jungle raves and the garage raves off key moschino iceberg Versace. So I get u exactly what u mean . What i am saying is that stormzy shows respect to the artist u mentioned .

@@leonpalmer2429 the ones he's aware of he's no scholar of music but i get what you mean, he's doing his thing at the end of the day, good luck to him

u said the whole truth

For real

Very true. And Chipmunk too

Luunga Munasinyungwe Chipmunk?

Fuse is the guy T.I.N.A (This Is New Africa)

Cause most of them not good like that

@@thelastdon9000 Okay Donald....

Hot 97 is obsessed w asking EVERY SINGLE British artist what grime is, as if Google isn't free😒 pisses me off man

adot. For reals, itʻs irritating🤦🏽‍♀️

Thing is no one makes everything about race apart from racists. Its either you get abused by racists and stay quiet and then people think it doesn't exist or you can speak about it and then everyone starts claiming that your making everything about race or your pulling a race card, when in actual fact your just saying what your reality is. People don't like the truth because it hurts.

METalGod66 Perfect answer, the more we expose racism, the more people are going to be dismissive and claim that the people bringing the subject to the forefront are playing the race card. Racism in England is subtle and insidious and is predicated on notions of white superiority. Britain does have really lovely people but their are a lot of racists who only see people by their differences or group identity rather than an individual in their own right.

Reality Not literally repeating Akala, My own words and experiences articulated in my own way. Why would you be so dismissive of ones experience asking for proof?? My experiences not yours! A few days ago somebody etched NF on a door I was to paint at work whilst me and a black guy were working there. The amount of times I’ve heard the words “black bastard” and “packy” before my eyes and online is endless! I’ve been called a packy in person, then there’s the subtle racism and being talked down to, being ignored, being stereotyped. I presume your a white person right? Just try and listen to what we’re saying, our experiences aren’t born in a vacuum they are our own real experiences! I can go deep and write an essay on this shit and people like you would still be dismissive. I work in construction I deal with putting it nicely overtly ignorant and racist assholes regularly! and then there’s the suspicious and smug middle classes, don’t get me started on the posh boris Johnson types, what u don’t believe me?? So there’s Akala, Stormy, Me and thousands of other people of diaspora saying the same shit and u want to ask man for proof! Maybe ur part of the problem and part of the reason racism still exists to this extent in England today!

Reality Fail! I’m not Pakistani I’m Indian, unfortunately racists describe anyone from turkey all the way to Outer Mongolia or east India as a Packy. I’m really not trying to convince you about racism in England, as I said in my previous comment there are some lovely white Brits but racism is still pretty prevalent all around the country. I described my experiences to you as per your request and all you could do is deflect with a weak rebuttal about Pakistani grooming gangs, as I said before I’m not Pakistani nor am I part of a grooming gang but I’ve still experienced some pretty unpleasant racism. I’m quite happy to express my experiences once and for you to remain dismissive I’m used to it. I did say in my previous comment that I could write an essay on this shit and you amongst many would still deny. I stand by my previous comment though that people like you are part of the problem.

Reality I wish these kind of people were an anachronism to the 80’s. I’m lucky I live in Greater London which is a cosmopolitan city. You start venturing slightly further out, Essex, Kent, Surrey Berkshire and you much more likely to come across backward racist scumbags who can’t disguise their contempt for people the perceive to be different. It was one of those stereotypically ignorant Essex wide boys who etched NF on the door I was gonna paint the other day I’m sure it was. I had to put it on him the following day for calling me oi!

Sure, but he said that white people in Britain don't have the same struggles...that's bullshit...white English working class kids have almost identical challenges to getting on in life, in various parts of the country i.e. poverty, broken homes and snobbery and obstacles to getting on UK is not America

@@angloirishcad Yeah but that isn't trendy atm, the White Working class of the UK are, according to numerous studies, the least performing, least supported group in the UK. The Left, Right and System as a whole has failed them!

@@AngloHuscarl I know, but I think this is becoming much more recognised now...this tripe is partly why Corbyn got spanked so badly. People see through the race baiting, and victim culture sold by the far-left...Stormzy wants to 'stand for something'...but he's picked up the wrong cause, or at least is explaining himself badly. He grew up with white kids...but no way he's telling them here...'I always speak my truth' Hahahahah

@@angloirishcad Outside the Metro bubble we know the truth!

angloirishcad identical? don’t do that white people will never understand that shit bro I used to get stopped by police and got arrested for just walking to school

BibleFeast have you listened to his music?

The "stereotypes come from poor neighbourhoods and impoverished backgrounds" maybe if you help your community you can help get rid of the stereotype👌 also blacks aren't they only people that do stereotypical things

@@jnightmare0 And these stereotypes were created by racism, slavery, colonization and white supremacy to make us look like we're sub-human. I don't care how or what other people look at us. This shit is working just the way it was built to. Encouraging one another to do better is one thing but cradling other people's view of black people and wanting people to meet them is not acceptable!🚫

@@mollysullivan7416 yep, a handful of his tunes and some not on an album. But my comments don't only address his lyrics, plenty of others do the same and worse

lol no

Fam there will never be a takeover cuz Americans are to patriotic

@@kurtis8583 👏 bang on, I think we should stop trying to cross over

Swap the Word Black for White and you'd be called a Supremacist, go figure!

@@AngloHuscarl Why is that?

@@AngloHuscarlNo 1 cares about labels, Black and Brown empowerment forever. We're not focused on the whites. White's are already labelled supremacist , you know with the whole stealing people from their home counties and endless crimes on humanity. Not to mention trying to hide our original history from us. Black and Brown empowerment forever!

@@brown3864 Ok lets see who you really are, someone well educated or merely another Black Supremacist & Racist bigot. Firstly what do you mean 'White'? Slavic, Nordic, Celtic, Mediterranean or Germanic? Yes, the crimes of the colonial period should never be forgotten, but some of these 'Whites' had very little to do with that. Also are you aware of the Barbery Coast slave trade from North Africa, a total of 2.5 million 'Whites' were taken from their lands and sold as slaves? Are you aware of the Islamic Slave trade, that exists TODAY, estimates 20+ million slaves bought and sold from Africa, along with 'White Slavic' slaves? Arabs are classed as brown aren't they, so much for Brown empowerment. I'm intrigued by your statement, "hide our history", are you by chance one of these Racist 'Black Hebrew Israelites', the extremist cult founded a century ago? If you are, well good luck to you, your hate preaching is coming to an end and your extremism is now known to all. Only jail and death sentences await!

@@AngloHuscarl what are you even on about you spastic

Jerome Brown Rated

shoutout Attack The Block and Kidulthood

Also anuva hood

Right, I believe the sentiment was genuine but they was pretty much just adlibbing this bih

so true !! raw talent. he needs his show time!!

If you think Stormzy doesn't deserve this, just wow

@@khariking3721 I never said he doesn't

Looks like it was cut. 48:35 No speculation as to the reason.

@@BadgerUKvideo or saved to add after.... I hope.

Coz he can’t do it!

Stormzy don't need freestyle lol foh

@@Truevisionsolutions ur smoking crack watch his wicked skengmans

divide and rule doesn't work on highly melanated African people your wrong 🖤

Yes Sudanese have a very distinctive look. Not so much Ghanaians, tbh I can't really tell them apart from Nigerians.

@Ewarton Charlton yh I think it's easier if you are a Nigerian/Ghanaian/African. I'm Afro-Caribbean. The only Africans I can see and identify straight away are SAs, Sudanese, Somalis, Ethiopians, Algerians and Moroccans.

@Ewarton Charlton ok. Interesting. Yes I went to school in Ladbroke Grove and if you know the area you will know there's a lot of Moroccans and Algerians there so I can tell the difference now. I can tell the difference with most Africans once they start talking but to look at, only a few countries.

@Ewarton Charlton some are, some aren't. TBH they kind of like to step in and out of their blackness. A lot of them look mixed race and their hair is curly in that way where when it's straightened it has that white person shine to it so they can flit in between and be African when it's beneficial to them. But you know what it's like Africans rep their countries very hard and that's it really, they know they are black but they are invested in their lands and culture. They are their nationality first. Nigerian Black.

Do us favor and walk into traffic

@@robel113 us mean yourself and go jog on your not wanted over here

you want some tomato ketchup for that massive chip on your shoulder??

I ain't got no chip on my shoulder , valid comment I made please show me, where I went wrong

@Anti MSM racism...what part lol where u from

do u know how small the uk is compared to america

@@Alphamegabt But ALWAYS punches above its weight...the black community now included

Nah the black population in the UK is 5%, that 3% figure is from the 2011 census. Also remember tht in the UK "mixed race" isn't classified as black and so there's a whole lot of mixed babies that are raised and identity with black people/culture in various cities in England who aren't counted in that 5% figure. So someone like Chuka Ummuna or Troy Deeney or Jesse Lingard won't be counted as black in the UK even though they would be in the USA.

Him talking about racism in the UK is like a rapper talking about growing up in the hood of Beverly Hills. He's reaching

Black Viking are you from the UK?

Dont be silly stormzy is a cold mic man but the REAL American spitters are levels ahead . Dont bring up the lil and migos type rappers cause them man are hip POP

@@leonpalmer2429 I agree...lyrically yeah, Stormzy isn't quit there yet, but i swear to god if someone like Avelino breaks through to the US...he could give Cole & Kendrick a run for their money.

Looks like he did, right at the end there's a cut scene - he's wiping his brow of sweat after rapping. Must've done but edited out..

Yeah, I know man... I’m a bit disappointed ☹️ about that myself, man...

Drake *birdman hand rub*

@Crusher Corps nah Stormzy is a beast, I'm American & even I can admit he's better than most popular American rappers.

@Crusher Corps Stormzy would spin 95% of US rappers no question.

Crusher Corps I can tell you just a hater. Stormzy overhyped?? The guy is a true mc. You got him fucked up boi

@Crusher Corps Stormzy is slightly overrated imo, but he's still amazing. That being said, he would wipe the floor with the vast majority of rappers in the states.

@Crusher Corps American talents being ignored? You sound like you just have an issue with the fact there are 'rappers' of different nationalities as there is no way you're making that comment on a Sway video when he has multiple no major rap acts on his show weekly, let alone major rap superstars.

I also have no idea why he's saying these things. Perhaps he's just trying to get the Americans to like him, since racism is such a popular topic over there. Either way, I've lost a lot of respect for him.

True true I'm also raised in the UK and have recently moved back to Africa. I find more racism between my own people than in the UK. UK has done some messed up stuff in the past but I think that right now they suffer from classism not racism.

You can shut up because he doesn't have no accent you Americans do

Yet he is the black star. A Ghanaian is always the black star

I thought that Lol Even in terms of TV