“On ‘Cold’, a trap-influenced track on Stormzy’s debut album, he boasts: “I just went to the park with my friends and I charted”. He’s talking about ‘WickedSkengMan Part 4’, the release that made history in 2015, becoming the first freestyle to break the UK charts. The 23-year-old south London grime don (real name Michael Omari) has reason aplenty for showing off, yet much of ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’ ”
““I just went to the park with my friends and I charted” jokes Stormzy on ‘Cold’, the frantic, fizzing banger near the beginning of his debut album. His rise to fame has been rapid, thanks to a couple of excellent hype tracks and a Christmas number one campaign that had him beating X Factor hopefuls with a song that, as the man says, he originally recorded as a freestyle while messing around with h”
“The debut solo album from the breakout grime MC is a detailed portrait and full-throated riot, switching between clapping back at lesser rappers and serving up smoothed-out Quiet Stormzy.”
