Stormzy started off making road rap.
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Stormzy: 27 Facts You Need To Know About The BRITs Nominated Rapper
5. Stormzy started off making road rap.
Stormzy started out as a road rap MC, rapping in a style closer to hip hop than grime. “When I started, everyone was a grime spitter... Everyone was just spitting grime, and then this UK rap scene came about,” he told Complex, “For a long time, though, I didn’t get the whole road rap thing. I thought it was too slow, and sounded too American. But I felt like I needed to adapt to it and I needed to jump on it because that’s what was happening."
