If you had any Monday night plans cancel them, because it turns out that Stormzy will be taking over the mic at Oxford University later tonight, with a talk that will be streamed live on their Periscope channel (@TheOxfordGuild). Usually, these kinds of guest talks are given by authors, philosophers, historians, Kanye West, or maybe even alumnus/alumna who are now semi-journalists or in advertising, but Oxford have decided to throw out the rule book and enlist the UK's reigning grime king to school the next generation about the issues he feels are most important.So what exactly should we expect from the talk? It goes without saying that Stormzy has always had something to say, from calling out the BRITs for ignoring grime, to throwing lyrical punches at boxer Dillian Whyte (who threatened to knock him out) – but who knows what he'll use the platform for tonight. "It's an honour to be asked to speak at such a prestigious establishment," Stormzy has said about the event. "In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford, I picked music as a career choice and this didn't sit to well with them! So to be asked to come down and speak to the students there is a true tale of destiny giving you the right cards."In a particularly cheerful statement, Abbas Kazmi, Chairman of the Oxford Guild, commented: "We are delighted to be welcoming to the Oxford Guild such an exciting and high profile a speaker as the one and only Stormzy and expect it to be a fascinating and memorable event and are thrilled that he will be doing an exclusive performance for those attending! We've had a phenomenal reaction from the student body so far with over 1,200 students balloting for places in under 24 hours of announcing it."The lecture comes almost a year after Kanye West famously attended the University to speak about everything from the fashion industry and race to politics and philosophy, so obviously Stormzy's got big Yeezy's to fill. We will be posting an embed of the live stream here at 8pm.window.twttr=function(t,e,r){var n,i=t.getElementsByTagName(e)[0],w=window.twttr||{};return t.getElementById(r)?w:(n=t.createElement(e),n.id=r,n.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js",i.parentNode.insertBefore(n,i),w._e=[],w.ready=function(t){w._e.push(t)},w)}(document,"script","twitter-wjs")
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