Stormzy has a net worth of $25 million as a British rapper, musician, songwriter, and novelist. Stormzy is well-known as one of the most renowned UK rappers. His albums “Gang Signs & Prayer” (2017), “Heavy Is the Head” (2019), and “This Is What I Mean” (2022) all debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Stormzy’s successful singles include “Big for Your Boots,” “Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2” (with MNEK), “Vossi Bop,” “Crown,” “Own It” (featuring Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy), “Audacity” (starring Headie One), “Hide & Seek,” and “Firebabe.”
What publishing imprint did Stormzy partner with?
In July 2018, it was reported that the Penguin Random House division William Heinemann would create a new publishing brand called #Merky Books in collaboration with Stormzy. Stormzy’s debut book, Rise Up, was released in the autumn of 2018, followed by Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi in the summer of 2019.
Derek Owusu’s verse novel That Reminds Me was published in November 2019. In October 2021, #Merky Books published Keisha the Sket, a viral serialized novel from the mid-2000s written in text-speak slang by a Black London adolescent; the print edition includes both the original and a rewrite in conventional English.
An annual #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize is given to “young, underrepresented, and unpublished writers from across the UK and ROI” who are “telling stories that are not being heard, and stories that deserve to be read, in fiction, non-fiction, or poetry.” Hafsa Zayyan’s We Are All Birds of Uganda, the prize’s inaugural winner, was released in 2021 by #Merky Books and was shortlisted for the 2022 Glass Bell Award.
