HERITAGE: After The Success Of "Wicked Skengman 4", Stormzy Adds More Heat To His Chamber With "Standard" (2015)

HERITAGE: After The Success Of "Wicked Skengman 4", Stormzy Adds More Heat To His Chamber With "Standard" (2015)


February 24, 2023

It hurts to admit this was nearly eight years ago, but here we are.

Produced by Heavytrackerz, Stormzy's "Standard" landed at just the right time for him. Having won Best Grime Act the MOBOs the previous year, 2015 started with Stormzy being listed in BBC's Introducing Top 5 and ended with him performing "Shut Up" during British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua's ring-walk for his fight against Dillian Whyte.

Just a couple of months before this, Stormzy scored two of his biggest hits to date—"Shut Up" and "Wicked Skengman 4"—but the pressure didn't seem to phase him because "Dude" with Lethal Bizzle followed and just a couple of weeks later, this arrived.

His sound may have diversified since then, but in his late-teen years, Big Mikey had the festival bangers on lock.



Photography: Mark Mattock


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