{"id":2185,"date":"2019-12-19T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T20:46:57","slug":"stormzys-defining-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"Stormzy\u2019s Defining Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Is the Head feels like the crowning moment in Stormzy\u2019s defining hour. Album two arrives two years after the incendiary Gang Signs &amp; Prayer, and in that time the South London MC has emerged as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Britain. Heavy Is the Head is testament to that new spirit. Played out over 16 songs, the album sees Stormzy lay himself bare on a record that reckons with the pressures of fame and the weight of expectation that befalls a young man ordained spokesperson for his generation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2186\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Stormzy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Stormzy-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Stormzy-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Stormzy.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/featured\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stream <strong><em>Stormzy &#8216;Heavy Is The Head&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Banksy put the vest on me\/It felt like God was testing me,\u201d he says on \u201cAudacity\u201d with Headie One, calling back to that iconic moment on Glastonbury\u2019s Pyramid Stage where he wore a stab-proof Union Jack designed by the artist. Elsewhere, there are moments of impassioned prayer on \u201cDo Better\u201d and sorrowful confessions on \u201cLessons.\u201d \u201cSuperheroes\u201d is a love letter to an emerging black British generation, to whom he says, \u201cOur parents were legends\/They had to migrate,\u201d before adding: \u201cAll I see is innovators and a bag of icons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is flossing on \u201cPop Boy\u201d with Mancunian rapper Aitch and deep vulnerability on \u201cOne Second\u201d with US singer-songwriter H.E.R. There is homage to his upbringing and frank reflections on the direction his life has since tilted. There is defiance and regret, there is community and hope, there is passion and pride. It is Stormzy taking ownership of his responsibility, a young man whose story and words give voice to the many who go unheard and unseen in Britain today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Is the Head feels like the crowning moment in Stormzy\u2019s defining hour. Album two arrives two years after the incendiary Gang Signs &amp; Prayer, and in that time the South London MC has emerged as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Britain. Heavy Is the Head is testament to that new spirit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,23,24],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-defining","tag-stormzy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}