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Stormzy’s Mother Reveals He Was A ‘Miracle’ Baby
Stormzy‘s mother has revealed that the UK rapper almost never existed and that his birth was a “miracle.”
In a teaser for the BBC’s new interview with the British rapper, Stormzy and journalist Louis Theroux spent a few moments with the former’s mother Abigail Owuo, who had nothing but amazing things to say about her superstar son.
“Yes,” Owuo says confidently in the clip when asked if her son is special. “He was a miracle. When I got pregnant with him I was on the pill.”
“Wow, I never knew that,” Stormzy chimes in.
“Because I never tell you,” his mother replies. “You can tell from when he was growing up that he was so talented.”
Me & Louis Theroux – tonight at 9:15pm on BBC 2 and on the BBC iPlayer ???????? pic.twitter.com/SR5HnujICL
— Stormzy (@stormzy) October 25, 2022
The full interview aired on Tuesday (October 25) on BBC 2, and comes as Stormzy gears up to release his third studio album This Is What I Mean, which is due out November 25 via 0207 Def Jam.
While he’s long been off social media and hadn’t dropped any new music in a while, the 29-year-old finally returned in September with a star-studded, sprawling 10-minute visual for a new song called “Mel Made Me Do It.”
The video was jam-packed with notable appearances from Usain Bolt, Ian Wright, Malorie Blackman, Gabrielle, Jazzie B, Trevor Nelson, Jenny Francis, Little Simz, Megaman, Headie One, Dave and dozens more.
Stormzy then followed it up with “Hide & Seek” earlier this month, which got the visual treatment on October 14.
According to a press release, the forthcoming 12-track album was crafted during a retreat to Osea Island, a small island in the Blackwater Estuary that’s accessible by car for only a few hours a day because of rising tides.
“When you hear about music camps, they always sound intense and somber,” Stormzy said in a statement. “People saying, ‘We need to make an album.’ ‘We need to make some hit records.’ But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians, but we weren’t always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the byproduct to that was very beautiful music.”
He added: “Because when you marry that ethos with world-class musicians and the best producers, writers, and artists in the world, and we’re in one space, that’s a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album.
The last full-length fans got from Stormzy was Heavy Is The Head in 2019 which debuted at No. 2 on the UK album charts, and featured appearances from Tiana Major9, Headie One, Burna Boy, H.E.R. and others.
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