Stormzy: ‘Respect me like you would Frank Ocean or Adele’

With debut album Gang Signs & Prayer on target for No 1, the south London rapper talks of his turbulent youth and standing up for young black British menI meet Stormzy in a beautifully appointed recording studio in a chi-chi area of London. He stands out, but then he would anywhere. Stormzy, real name Michael Omari Jr, is a can’t-hide 6ft 5in in his trackie bottoms, black socks and slides, plus a T-shirt that, unexpectedly, has a picture of Louis Theroux on it. (“Louis Theroux is