Stormzy to deliver live Oxford University speech

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Grime artist Stormzy will deliver a speech at Oxford University tonight at 8pm via Periscope (watch it live here).

The East London MC has been at the forefront of the genre's resurgence in the past year or so and has been invited to speak by Abbas Kazmi, chairman of the Oxford Guild.

Very very proud to announce that I have been invited to speak at the prestigious Oxford University next Monday. 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/BL3ENM0OH1

— #MERKY (@Stormzy1) 5 March 2016

Speaking ahead of the talk, Stormzy said: "It's an honour to be asked to speak at such a prestigious establishment. 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."

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