{"id":974395,"date":"2020-01-14T02:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937273"},"modified":"2020-01-14T02:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:29:33","slug":"watch-stormzy-perform-crown-on-fallon-with-a-full-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-stormzy-perform-crown-on-fallon-with-a-full-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Stormzy Perform \u2018Crown\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019 With a Full Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.K. rapper Stormzy<\/a> appeared on The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> to perform his recent song \u201cCrown.\u201d<\/a> The live rendition of the track, which comes off his sophomore album Heavy Is the Head<\/em>, marks Stormzy\u2019s U.S. television debut.<\/p>\n

The rapper appeared on a mostly dark stage, accompanied by a choir and a live band to showcase the emotional song. The, produced MJ Cole and Jimmy Napes, who co-wrote the track along with Stormzy, reflects on power as the rapper offers a twist on the phrase \u201cheavy is the head that wears the crown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stormzy dropped Heavy Is the Head<\/em>, a follow-up to his 2017 debut Gang Signs & Prayer<\/em>, in December. The rapper told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last year that his writing process has evolved over time. \u201cWith GS&P<\/em>, that was always going to be a South London story,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was 23 years of my life. Up until that moment, that was my whole story. Whereas Heavy Is the Head<\/em> was me going to the studio and asking, who am I, what do I have to say, what do I need to say? It\u2019s all these truths, it\u2019s all these stories about who I am today, bearing the brunt of being Stormzy. Yes, I feel like the best MC in the fucking world, but I also feel like I can\u2019t take all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI wanted it to be a true musical reflection of everything I\u2019m feeling, everything I stand for and all the stories I have to tell right now. And to me that\u2019s always going to mean a vast palette because I like to think I\u2019ve got a vast personality. I\u2019m not just a hard-hitting rapper. I like beautiful songs and beautiful melody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.K. rapper Stormzy appeared on The Tonight Show to perform his recent song \u201cCrown.\u201d The live rendition of the track, which comes off his sophomore album Heavy Is the Head, marks Stormzy\u2019s U.S. television debut. The rapper appeared on a mostly dark stage, accompanied by a choir and a live band to showcase the emotional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 19:43:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}