Stormzy

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Stormzy (born July 26 1993) is a British rapper, singer and songwriter. In 2014, he garnered attention on the UK underground music scene through his Wicked Skengmen series of freestylers over classic grime beats. Although he did not come from a musical environment, he still managed and became the famous rapper that he is today.

Stormzy’s first major break might have come in 2014, but the South London artist had been putting in work for years before that. Hailing from Thornton Heath in Croydon, Stormzy started rapping at the tender age of 11 and progressed from clashing in youth clubs to sharing music videos and freestyles on his YouTube channel StormzyTV throughout his teens which is where he also uploaded his cult Wicked Skengman freestyles. Here 16 year old Stormzy laid down a few bars in one of his earliest freestyles off the dome for Link Up TV back in 2010 way before winning MOBO and BET Awards or clocking up tens of millions of views on YouTube.