Stormzy returns with "Toxic Trait" featuring Fredo

Hotly off the back of achieving his third, consecutive number one album with his critically praised record, This Is What I Mean, in December, British megastar Stormzy returns with "Toxic Trait".

The track features fellow British rapper Fredo and also arrives with Stormzy’s well-known close confidant, Santan (AKA Dave) on production duties.

"There’s a difference between doing music at 22 and when you’re about to turn 30,” Stormzy recently said in an interview for the cover of Dazed Magazine’s summer issue. “It’s the kind of peace and stability and stillness you can only get from maturity. You lose all the nervous shivers and the anxiety; you shake it off because now you’re a grown man coming into your skin.”

Stormzy’s new single is accompanied by an impressive and captivating video directed by British Director Femi Ladi. With a focus on societal toxic traits, the video fictionally contextualises a plethora of toxic situations, honing in on gambling, violence and the glorification of luxury lifestyles, with a further signal to the 1900 pidgin-style saying, "monkey-see, monkey-do".