Stormzy on Black Lives Matter: 'If we weren't oppressed, we wouldn't be shouting'

Rapper talks to the BBC about the ‘hundreds, thousands of years of real pain’ suffered by black people

The Black Lives Matter movement represents “hundreds, thousands of years” of “real pain”, Stormzy has told the BBC.

In a short video feature in which the rapper surprised a young fan by painting his bedroom in recognition of his positive behaviour at school, Stormzy said he wanted the movement to “show what it means to be black”.

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