Stormzy - Big For Your Boots (Single Review)

It's been a good few years for the grime scene, and particularly for Michael Omari (Stormzy). Stormzy has done incredibly well for himself as a DIY artist from South London, he announced last week on Twitter that his brand '#MERKY' is now officially an independent record label. Hopefully the underground grime talent comes out of it's shell, and Stormzy manages to give some of the hard-working grime/hip-hop artists the chance they've all been waiting for. He won Best Grime Act at the 2014 and 2015 MOBO Awards, and quite rightly so. After nine months of radio silence and deleted social media accounts, Stormzy has released the albums lead single called 'Big For Your Boots' from his debut album GSAP: (Gang Signs And Prayer), which will be released tomorrow on the 24th of February 2017.

Commonly known for creating a campaign to get his track called 'Shut Up' as the UK's Christmas number 1, Stormzy is creating a name for himself all over the UK and overseas, but not in a bad way. Even though the track didn't quite reach number 1 over the Christmas period, Stormzy's track managed to climb it's way to number 8.

The repetitive chorus of the track 'Big For Your Boots' constantly refers to somebody being 'too big for their boots' and Stormzy belittles them by saying "I've got the big size twelves on my feet, your face ain't too big for my boot". Then throughout the track he constantly rips this person another arsehole, re-assuring them they they aren't hard or tough, they're just all talk - "Never had a MAC-10 or a try pound you were never bad then, you ain't bad now."

However this track isn't just about cussing people out it's also reminding you to stay humble and say true to who you are.

"I was in the O2 singing my lungs out, rudeboy, you're never too big for Adele. Leave my yard, blow a kiss to my girl, salute to my sister as well. Gotta keep trophies down at my mum's bit, man, I'm getting way too big for my shelf."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOErVWlsxg 

8/10