Stormzy Quotes

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

I think there's something amazing about British soul.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I'm older - I'm in my early 50s - so you'll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.

The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have a real hunger for what they see as their history, their culture and their Shakespeare.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude - even an aptitude.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

It was really inspiring to be in West London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Mark Lebon's Crunch Studios, where I met people like Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry, Judy Blame, Nick and Barry Kamen, Zoe Bedeaux, and Venetia Scott.

How can you call yourself a cosmopolitan modern person if you don't know what hip-hop is?

My era was '90s Carhartt-and-Timberlands hip-hop. That's my rock n' roll.

I like Das Racist, and so should you.

This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black culture. We are the way out, you feel what I'm sayin'? As far as who we look to and where we get stuff from - hip-hop culture is influencing the world, really, but especially the black communities.