Stormzy Invites Us To His Album Launch Party In "This Is What I Mean" Visuals f/ Amaarae, Ms Banks, Jacob Collier & Black Sherif

Stormzy Invites Us To His Album Launch Party In "This Is What I Mean" Visuals f/ Amaarae, Ms Banks, Jacob Collier & Black Sherif


November 28, 2022

Fresh from the release of his 12-track epic, This Is What I Mean, Stormzy with clean visuals for the title track, featuring Jacob Collier, Amaarae, Ms Banks, and Black Sherif.

Producers Joel Peters, P2J, PRGRSHN, and Knox Brown merge their creative brains to form the dynamic instrumental which includes graceful, operatic notes from Toronto-raised artist STORRY, a driving rhythm section, and some melody from Collier. All of these textures coil around Stormzy's sharp-witted bars, creating a suspense-ridden divergence from the rest of the album's vulnerable outpour.

Dir.Lx is behind the lens, grabbing footage from the album's launch party, where friends and collaborators excitedly gathered around the man of the hour. Under a spell of flashing lights, the features are captured against a plain backdrop in their separate zones gearing up for a spirited performance. In the second half of the video, Ms Banks makes a grand appearance with a distorted vocal disguise which blends into Amaarae's verse right before Black Sherif brings the experience to a close.



Words: Blessing Borode
Photography: Adama Jalloh


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