Stormzy was at the Hay literary festival yesterday bigging up his publishing house, Merky books.
“My actual dream is being 80 years old, no one cares about Stormzy any more, he’s just chilling with his dogs,” the rapper said, imagining that the book label will outlive his career as a musician. “I see someone and they say ‘Yo, I’m a published author, I sold so many books on Merky’,” he said. He added: “It’s not a vanity thing. It’s just this engine that allows black authors to come and grow and thrive."
