Gang Signs & Prayer

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Gang Signs & Prayer
Gang Signs & Prayer cover.jpg
Studio album by
Stormzy
Released24 February 2017
Recorded2015–2016
Genre
Length58:47
Label
Producer
Stormzy chronology
Dreamers Disease
(2014)		Gang Signs & Prayer
(2017)		 Heavy Is the Head
(2019)
Singles from Gang Signs & Prayer
  1. "Big for Your Boots"
    Released: 3 February 2017
  2. "Cold"
    Released: 12 March 2017 [1]
  3. "Cigarettes & Cush"
    Released: 29 August 2017 [2]
  4. "Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2"
    Released: 27 October 2017 [3]

Gang Signs & Prayer is the debut studio album by British rapper Stormzy. It was released on 24 February 2017 independently through #Merky Records while being distributed by ADA of Warner Music Group. [4] It is Stormzy's first major commercial release, following the Dreamers Disease EP (2014). The album features guest appearances from fellow MCs Wretch 32, Ghetts and J Hus, along with singers Kehlani, Raleigh Ritchie and MNEK. It features production from Fraser T. Smith and Sir Spyro, among others.

Contents

After gaining attention on the UK underground music scene via his Wicked Skengman series of freestyles over classic grime beats, Stormzy released his debut EP Dreamers Disease independently in July 2014. [5] In September 2015, he released a final instalment to his "WickedSkengMan" freestyle series, "WickedSkengMan 4", onto iTunes. After a year's hiatus from social media to focus on the recording of the album, Stormzy returned in early February 2017 via a series of advertising hoarding campaigns across London displaying lyrical quotes and the hashtag #GSAP 24.02. Gang Signs & Prayer was supported by the lead single "Big for Your Boots".

Gang Signs & Prayer received critical acclaim upon release, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one with sales of over 68,000 copies, becoming the first grime album in history to reach number one. It also charted in twelve other countries. Gang Signs & Prayer holds the distinction of having every song from the album appear concurrently in the UK Singles Chart, including seven songs in the top 40. [6] The album is certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Gang Signs & Prayer won British Album of the Year at the 2018 Brit Awards. [7]

Background

After gaining attention on the UK underground music scene via his Wicked Skengman series of freestyles over classic grime beats, Stormzy released his debut EP Dreamers Disease independently in July 2014. [5]

In March 2015, he released the single "Know Me From", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 49. In September 2015, he released a final instalment to his "WickedSkengMan" freestyle series, "WickedSkengMan 4", onto iTunes, along with a studio version of his "Shut Up" freestyle over XTC's Functions on the Low instrumental. [8] The track debuted at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming Stormzy's first top 40 hit. [9] The online video for "Shut Up" gained millions of views and attention from the mainstream. As a result, Stormzy launched a Christmas number one campaign to get the song to number one, [10] [11] [12] ultimately peaking at number eight in the UK Singles Chart.

After a year's hiatus from social media to focus on the recording of the album, Stormzy returned in early February 2017 via a series of advertising hoarding campaigns across London displaying lyrical quotes and the hashtag #GSAP 24.02. The album title was announced to be Gang Signs & Prayer, set to be released on 24 February 2017, followed by the track listing the following day. [13] [14] [15]

Promotion

Prior to the album's official announcement, the non-album track "Shut Up" was released in September 2015 and ultimately included as the penultimate track on Gang Signs & Prayer. The non-album single "Scary" was released in April 2016 prior to Stormzy's hiatus. On 1 February 2017, an advertising hoarding campaign that foreshadowed the release of the album was launched in numerous areas in London.

Singles

"Big for Your Boots" was released as the album's lead single on 3 February 2017. The track was produced by Fraser T Smith and Sir Spyro. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number eight, reaching a peak of number six in its fourth week of charting after the release of Gang Signs & Prayer. It thus surpassed "Shut Up" as Stormzy's highest-charting single. "Cold" was released as the album's second single on 12 March, following the album's being certified Gold in the United Kingdom. [1] "Cigarettes & Cush" was released as the album's third single on 29 August 2017. [2] "Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2" was released as the album's fourth single on 27 October 2017. [3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.8/10 [16]
Metacritic 82/100 [17]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]
The Daily Telegraph Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [21]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [22]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [23]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [24]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [25]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [26]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [27]

Upon its release, Gang Signs & Prayer received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 19 reviews. [17] Giving it a perfect score, Jordan Bassett of NME stated that Stormzy "delivers a knockout debut that’s brash and pensive in equal measure." [23]

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the musical diversity of the album: "More startling, however, is the confidence with which other tracks shift into unexpected musical territory. On paper, a rapper like Stormzy recording a lo-fi, electric piano-led, Stevie Wonderesque gospel track called '"Blinded By Your Grace, Pt 1" sounds like a textbook case of an artist overstretching himself; in reality, it’s fantastic, and oddly moving.", concluding that "It’s not a perfect debut – it’s slightly too long for one thing, and there are a couple of points where it sags – but it sounds like an album teeming with original, daring ideas. More importantly, it sounds like the work of an artist with the confidence and the talent to pull those ideas off." [21]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeYearRankRef.
Drowned in Sound Favourite Albums of 2017
2017
79
NME NME's Albums of the Year 2017
2017
14
Exclaim! Exclaim!'s Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2017
2017
10

Commercial performance

After receiving close competition with Rag'n'Bone Man's Human , Gang Signs & Prayer entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, with combined sales of 68,594 copies. [31] [32] It set British streaming records for the most first-week streams for a number one album in chart history, with 13.9 million streams, surpassing the opening week stream count of Drake's Views . Gang Signs & Prayer became the first grime album to chart at number one, as well as joining the likes of Skepta and Giggs of charting in the top five independently. The album also charted at number one on the UK Independent Chart, UK R&B Chart and the Irish Albums Chart, number two on the Scottish Albums Chart. Outside the UK, it entered the Official New Zealand Music Chart at number 14 and Sverigetopplistan at number 34.

In the album's first week of release, seven tracks from Gang Signs & Prayer were in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart – "Big for Your Boots", "Cold", "Bad Boys", "First Things First", "Mr Skeng", "Cigarettes & Cush" and "Shut Up". All sixteen tracks from the album appeared in the top 100 in a single week, making Stormzy the fourth artist to achieve this. [33]

Gang Signs & Prayer was certified Silver by the BPI in its first week of release. [34]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."First Things First"
3:27
2."Cold"
  • Omari
  • Swifta Beater
2:36
3."Bad Boys" (featuring Ghetts and J Hus)
  • Smith
  • EY
  • P2J
  • Stormzy
4:06
4."Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 1"
  • Omari
  • Smith
  • Varren Wade
  • Dion Wardle
  • Smith
  • Stormzy
2:40
5."Big for Your Boots"
  • Omari
  • Karl Joseph
  • Smith
  • Sir Spyro
  • Stormzy
3:58
6."Velvet / Jenny Francis (Interlude)"
  • Omari
  • Mikey Akin
  • Moses Samuels
  • Nao
  • Sons of Sonix
  • Smith
  • Stormzy
5:39
7."Mr Skeng"
  • Omari
  • Joseph
  • Smith
  • Sir Spyro
  • Stormzy
3:17
8."Cigarettes & Cush" (featuring Kehlani)
  • Smith
  • Stormzy
5:49
9."21 Gun Salute (Interlude)" (featuring Wretch 32)
  • Smith
  • Stormzy
2:26
10."Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2" (featuring MNEK)
  • Smith
  • Stormzy
3:50
11."Return of the Rucksack"
  • Smith
  • Sir Spyro
  • Stormzy
3:04
12."100 Bags"
  • Omari
  • Sunny Kale
  • Smith
  • Kale
  • Stormzy
3:37
13."Don't Cry for Me" (featuring Raleigh Ritchie)
  • Smith
  • Wizzy Wow
  • Stormzy
3:34
14."Crazy Titch (Interlude)" Crazy Titch  2:40
15."Shut Up"
  • Omari
  • XTC
  • Stormzy
  • XTC
2:46
16."Lay Me Bare"
  • Smith
  • EY
  • Stormzy
5:04
Total length:58:47

Sample credits

Personnel

Vocals

Instruments

Production

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [54] Gold10,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [55] Platinum429,833 [56]

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Worldwide24 February 2017

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