In Stormzy’s set on the Pyramid stage on Friday night he challenged those watching to think about racial inequality, using a sample of a David Lammy MP speech from the House of Commons about discrimination in the justice system, raising the problem of knife crime and racial prejudice in ballet.
The rapper won Best Grime Act in 2014 and 2015 at the MOBO awards and his debut album Gang Signs and Prayer was the first grime album to reach number one in the UK.
In his first rendition of Blinded By Your Grace, he introduced it by saying: “This is what it sounds like when Glastonbury meets God…this is a God tune. This is everything.”
He then walked off as Chris Martin, the singer from Coldplay came on to play keyboard, shortly joined on the stool by Stormzy for a spotlit duet where they sang:
“I’m blinded by your grace
Every night, every day
And I was lost, yeah
But ever since you found me
I’m blinded by your grace
Through the darkness you came
And I’ll be alright
With you by my side”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I'm a 58 year old Mum who is overcome and so thankful that <a href="https://twitter.com/stormzy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stormzy</a> brought it to church last night. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GlaSTORMbury?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GlaSTORMbury</a> totally fantastic that a black rapper made black history, British...
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