He may have only gotten No. 3, but he’s No. 1 in our cheap jokes…

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Alfred Soto: The J. Cole of grime strikes again with an apt title.
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Micha Cavaseno: Where the hell is grime going in 2015 and beyond? A lot of places and nowhere again. There’s a lot of ex-dubstep guys throwing awkward Dot Rotten samples over undanceable dance music; a lot of 40-year-olds who haven’t had a hit or written new bars in a decade still cluttering up raves; Dizzee keeps promising a ‘return to form” and instead just gets fatter. Stormzy is an interesting anomaly, though. I can’t recall anyone saying “Look out for Stormzy!”, but over the past few years he’s gone from any East London MC to a star presence, and the reasons are all over his freestyles and even here. Beat might be generic, and Stormzy has that flow that lacks the tightness of his heroes who had to navigate the jungles of long ago. But he’s clever, unruly, and he can write a straightforward banger with better ease and none of the “HISTORICAL ARTIST” signposts of his heroes. We’ll see if this storm lingers on.
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Crystal Leww: Do outlets like the BBC get extra hype for Stormzy in a similar way to how outlets always get extra hype for Joey Bada$$? Stormzy is not a bad rapper. He is also not your grime savior.
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Brad Shoup: He’ll be that: scary, approachable, funny, hardworking, devoted. He’s busy, but not so busy that he can’t tell you all about it. It makes for some hairpin bars. The HeavyTrackerz dangle the trap bells, but they spend about as much time unpacking a haunted chest. No matter, Stormzy’s out to claim everyone’s territory in one song; his cannonfire is percussion enough.
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Thomas Inskeep: Utterly generic grime. Nothing new to hear in Stormzy’s flow, or his lyrics, or the track.
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Katherine St Asaph: And even less memorable.
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