{"id":485114,"date":"2019-04-26T02:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=827636"},"modified":"2019-04-26T02:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:34:02","slug":"watch-idris-elba-cameo-in-stormzys-video-for-vossi-bop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-idris-elba-cameo-in-stormzys-video-for-vossi-bop\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Idris Elba Cameo in Stormzy\u2019s Video for \u2018Vossi Bop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-26-at-9.18.23-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stormzy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stormzy\" data-tag=\"stormzy\">Stormzy<\/a> is back with a fast-talking, politically-tinged new single, \u201cVossi Bop,\u201d and an accompanying music video. The video, directed by Henry Scholfield and choreographed by Shay Latukolan, takes the rapper around his hometown of London, opening with alone Stormzy in the middle of an empty Westminster Bridge, the London Eye and Big Ben visible behind him. He\u2019s joined by a group of young dancers as he appears in front of the Bank of England and takes a shot at Boris Johnson, rapping, \u201cI can never die\/I\u2019m Chuck Norris\/Fuck the government\/and fuck Boris, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, surrounded by a group of his mates, Stormzy invokes actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/idris-elba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_idris-elba\" data-tag=\"idris-elba\">Idris Elba<\/a>, saying, \u201cMan, I\u2019m James Bond\/trying to live my movie like I\u2019m Idris\u201d before Elba himself appears beside the rapper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVossi Bop\u201d is Stormzy\u2019s first new music since the release of his 2017 debut album <em>Gang Signs &amp; Prayer<\/em>. It\u2019s also his first release on his #Merky Records label, in partnership with Atlantic Records. In June, Stormzy will become the first-ever British MC to headline Glastonbury. He will also bring his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibizarocks.com\/merky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#MERKY Festival<\/a> to Ibiza July 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-idris-elba-cameo-stormzy-video-vossi-bop-827636\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stormzy is back with a fast-talking, politically-tinged new single, \u201cVossi Bop,\u201d and an accompanying music video. The video, directed by Henry Scholfield and choreographed by Shay Latukolan, takes the rapper around his hometown of London, opening with alone Stormzy in the middle of an empty Westminster Bridge, the London Eye and Big Ben visible behind [&hellip;]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 03:04:21","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}