Stormzy events with Amaarae, Jacob Collier, Ms Banks and extra in ‘This Is What I Imply’ video

Stormzy has shared a music video for ‘This Is What I Imply’ – the title monitor from his just-released third album – starring the likes of Amaarae, Black Sherif, Jacob Collier, Ms Banks and Storry.

The video opens with a clip of phone-shot footage from the gang at Stormzy’s album launch celebration final week, earlier than switching to a scene of Collier miming the music’s grand piano intro from inside an empty, ominously lit warehouse. A title card informs us that the video was shot on the identical evening because the aforementioned launch celebration, leaping backwards and forwards between the celebration itself and comparable solo scenes from every of the featured artists.

Three of them – Ms Banks, Amaarae and Black Sherif – even have visitor spots on the music itself. Whereas Collier doesn’t, he was one of many music’s co-writers, and seems elsewhere on the namesake album. As revealed earlier this month, a complete of 28 artists had been concerned in bringing ‘This Is What I Imply’ to life.

Take a look on the video beneath:

‘This Is What I Imply’ – the album – arrived final Friday (November 25) through Stormzy’s personal #Merky label, and featured the singles ‘Conceal & Search’ and ‘Firebabe’. It was launched alongside a private message from the rapper, through which he implored followers to “hearken to this album with an open coronary heart”.

Shortly earlier than he launched the album, Stormzy mentioned in an interview that he’d “made peace with the concept that nobody could prefer it”. He needn’t have executed so: NME gave ‘This Is What I Imply’ a four-star overview, with Sam Moore writing that it sees the rapper “proceed to paved the way” and “[let] his listeners in like by no means earlier than”.

Among the many many upcoming celebrations for ‘This Is What I Imply’ is Stormzy’s headlining look at subsequent yr’s All Factors East competition. There, he’ll curate a whole day of programming, with that day being co-branded as ‘This Is What We Imply Day’.