The best thing about being me?
Umm...
Yo, what’s going on, people? It’s Stormzy.
Hey, it’s Billie. I’m about to talk to Stormzy.
OK.
Full English breakfast or American pancakes, Stormzy?
Go.
Going to say a full English.
Have you ever had a full English breakfast?
Like, beans and--
Beans, sausage, bacon, egg, toast.
Uh huh. It looks...
it looks pretty funky.
It’s good!
To Americans, I think full English looks a bit, like...
a bit disgusting.
Do you guys have baked beans? Do you eat baked beans?
I love baked beans.
-OK, cool. -I really love baked beans.
And I’m vegan, so I-- There’s actually really good vegan--
Ah, you’re vegan!
Lazy Sunday or jam-packed weekend?
Uh, it really depends.
I love a lazy Sunday, but...
also, if you’re doing fun shit, then a jam-packed weekend is good.
What about you?
Definitely, a lazy Sunday.
Hundred percent for me.
Actually, no, I say that, I say that, with Covid...
probably a jam-packed weekend.
But I think, naturally, I’m a lazy Sunday man.
But the way things are now, I really enjoy a jam-packed weekend.
LA or London?
London, easily.
All day long.
All day long, like.
I feel like London and LA are polar opposites
in every sense of the word.
I feel like LA’s shiny and bright and--
-Hot. -Do you know what I mean?
And London is very cold and concrete, do you know what I mean?
I would have to agree. I love LA, and it’s obviously where I grew up,
and, you know, I love it to pieces,
but I would rather be in London most of the time.
Stormzy, what is your biggest style no-go?
Anything that makes me stand out a bit too much,
I don’t really like, to be fair.
Interesting.
So do you just not...
-do you not want to stand out? -Yeah, yeah.
Without getting too deep, I think it’s probably...
yeah, man, I don’t want to stand out.
I think that my life and my career and everything...
and my height makes me stand out a lot.
So I think everything else, I’ll try and work against that.
-Do you know what I mean? -Yeah.
Great thing? What’s a great thing about being me?
Growing up, I used to think I was mad tough, like, yeah, tough.
But then as I’ve gotten older,
I said, “Ah, I’m very sensitive as well.
I’m a sensitive soul.”
I said, “OK, I’m all these things, I’m this and I’m that.”
I went there and all of these things,
so, yeah, I’m multifaceted.
And I think that’s... one of the things that makes me me, innit.
The best thing about being me?
God, that’s such a strange thing to think.
You know, I guess what I would say is
I don’t know how to be anyone else.
Like, I...
I think that we all have moments of wishing we were somebody else
or you know, when we were kids and we get older,
and there’s always somebody we wish we were
or wish we had their life.
But reality is that
if you suddenly turned into somebody else,
you wouldn’t know what the fuck to do.
You’d be so thrown off and uncomfortable
and exposed, I feel.
So I think that the best part about being me
is really just being me.
So I wouldn’t really want to be anyone else, I guess.
That's a great answer.