Hide & Seek is the first track to be shared from his new album, 'This Is What I Mean', due out on November 25 through Def Jam.
The track finds the London rapper delivering candid bars about a relationship over an atmospheric backdrop made up of piano, percussion and dynamic guest vocals from British singer Ayanna and Nigerian singers Oxlade and Teni.
The new record was recorded during 2021 at a music camp on Osea Island, a remote island in the Essex estuary. Stormzy explained:
“When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre. People saying: “We need to make an album.” “We need to make some hit records.” But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians but we weren’t always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the bi-product to that was very beautiful music. Because when you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the best producers, writers and artists in the world, and we’re in one space, that’s a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album.”
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