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Stormzy on Michael Gove ‘I set trends dem man copy’ tweet: ‘You picked the wrong f****ing rapper’


Stormzy has broken his silence over a tweet in which Michael Gove appeared to mock one of his song lyrics.

Mr Gove bizarrely hit out at the Grime artist after he came out in support of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during the election campaign.

Stormzy had not responded to the tweet until Sunday, when he said Mr Gove had “picked the wrong f****ing rapper”.

After he came out in support of Mr Corbyn, Mr Gove said in an interview on Talk Radio that Stormzy is “a far, far better rapper than he is a political analyst”.

Labour’s Angela Rayner, now being tipped as a possible party leader, quipped back, tweeting: “And Michael Gove is crap at both”, adding a winking emoji.

Mr Gove responded using a lyric from Stormzy’s song Shut Up: “I set trends dem man copy”.

On Sunday, three weeks after Mr Gove’s tweet, Stormzy told The Observer: “It’s the classic, ‘You’re just a rapper.’

“Using ‘I set trends dem man copy’… No one was talking about that. I wasn’t talking about music, I wasn’t talking about ‘Shut Up’ – I was talking about politics. 

“So him saying that is like he said: ‘Oh, no, forget politics. This is what he does. He’s a rapper.’ It’s a weaponised tactic.”

He continued: “They do it to young people, they do it to black people, they do it to rappers, they do it to entertainers: ‘Just shut up and rap.’ Stay in your lane. 

“It’s very telling of who these people are. As much as I’m a rapper, I’ve also done X, Y, Z. But they’re dismissing everything else. 

“They just look at me and say: ‘No.’ They reduce us to whatever they need us to be and dismiss it.”

Stormzy – who gained six A*s in his GCSEs –  then explained he is not bothered by the insults of politicians because he knows he is “intelligent”.

“So when they dismiss me it’s like, ‘You lot picked the wrong f****ing rapper,’” he said.

 

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