“This Is What I Mean” gestures towards vulnerability—but flashes of the rapper’s swagger remain
like Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo junior, an artist from south London known as Stormzy. Since rising to prominence in 2014 with a series of freestyle verses that went viral on YouTube, his career has been crowded with landmarks.
expounds on viral dance moves , the pressure of expectation and the turmoil of a broken relationship . It follows, then, that each new record is greeted with fanfare. A billboard campaign promoted “Heavy Is The Head” in 2019. On the cover, Stormzy held the stab-proof vest designed bythe rapper appeared in aWhat he offers across the record’s 12 tracks is unexpected. In “Fire + Water”, plaintive piano chords evoke a soulful ballad while Stormzy sings the opening lines, lamenting a lost love.
You get the sense that Stormzy does not really know what he wants to say. “This Is What I Mean” might be the rapper trying to mature beyond the grime sound for which he is loved, but he is caught between his new introspective pose and the bravado that characterises some of his older work.
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