The British artist Stormzy has consolidated his credentials as a critical awareness of the ailments of the contemporary United Kingdom, a society that denounces the inequality, the disparity of opportunities and racism that, according to him, continues to hover among a citizenry that is not even « aware of their prejudices.

Fully topical after the publication two weeks ago of his second album, Heavy is the head , which debuted as the second best-selling album in the United Kingdom, the London rapper accumulates as many headlines for his work as for his activism .

Stormzy adds countless disputes before the public eye and under the prism of social networks, the scene of his verbal confrontations with heavy government weights such as Michael Gove, right hand of the prime minister, and prominent television figures such as the controversial Piers Morgan.

His most recent controversy has confronted him with a chain of headers he has accused of misrepresenting his words to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on the extension of racism both institutionally and at street level in the United Kingdom. The singer said he was convinced "one hundred percent" that the racial discrimination virus remains inoculated in the country, a statement that earned him an important response from not a few newspapers and magazines that interpreted his opinion as a direct accusation that the country was racist to "one hundred percent."

Stormzy censured that he had "intentionally turned" his words. His counterattack, via Twitter, was reinforced this weekend after the football match between Tottenham and Chelsea was interrupted by the racist chants of an amateur sector.

In his conversation with the Italian newspaper, the rapper affirms that this problem has been aggravated by controversies encouraged by Boris Johnson himself : "If our leader openly says racist things, he encourages hatred among others." Stormzy has never hidden his political preferences. In the recent general elections he appealed to the Labor vote and in one of his greatest successes, the song Vossi Bop , sings: "Fuck the Government, fuck Boris . "

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