Stormzy shares emotional post addressing McDonald's controversy

Stormzy has responded to backlash over his affiliation with McDonald’s by telling people to do something very... NSFW.

As people around the world decided to post their 2025 highlights on social media, the UK rapper decided that now is the time to call out people publicly.

The thing he wanted to address was the reaction to his collaboration with McDonald's to create 'The Stormzy Meal', which is his favourite meal to order from the establishment.

It includes 9 Chicken McNuggets and Fries with two BBQ dips, a Sprite Zero, and either an Oreo McFlurry or an Apple Pie.

He addressed on his post the fan reaction to it: "Towards the end of 2024, my life took a few unexpected twists and turns and I was forced to pivot.”

"So fast forward to the beginning of 2025 where I decide to do a McDonald's deal - a decision that led a lot of you reading this to question both my character and my integrity," he added.

Essentially, people claimed he was ‘selling out’ through the collab as he allegedly deleted his Pro-Palestine post amid the deal.

According to NME, Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project shared an open letter on February 13, 2025, asking Stormzy to 'help us take genocide off the menu' and asked that he 'stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their hour of need and respect the BDS committee’s call for a global boycott of McDonald’s by ending his new partnership with them'.

In response to the backlash, Stormzy explained online that he didn’t delete anything for the deal.

“Hey guys, I wanted to address some twisted narrative that has been circulating online this past week," he said at the time.

"Firstly, I didn’t archive the post where I came out in support of Palestine for any reason outside of me archiving loads of IG posts last year."

He continued: “In that post, I spoke about #FreePalestine, oppression and injustice and my stance on this has not changed. The brands I work with can’t tell me what to do and don’t tell me what to do otherwise I wouldn’t work with them."

Reflecting on things as he entered 2026, Stormzy shared a lengthy post on Instagram, saying he felt 'ready' to discuss it further.

"Towards the end of 2024, my life took a few unexpected twists and turns and I was forced to pivot," he said.

"These same events also robbed me of the wide-eyed innocence I once navigated the world with.

"Kinda like how you used to believe that Disneyland was powered by rainbows and fairy dust, and then one day you see a headless Mickey Mouse arguing on the phone and smoking a cigarette.

"This made me more resilient and put the final nail in the coffin of my desire to be understood – a part of me that, tbf, was already dying a slow death.

‘So fast forward to the beginning of 2025 where I decide to do a McDonald's deal – a decision that led to a lot of you reading this to question both my character and my integrity.

"See now… The younger me and I guess the 'version' of my you guys are more familiar with would have desperately wanted everyone to understand my reasons for doing it.

"The Mike from yesteryears would of been compelled to quickly explain himself, and let you know that there is no world in which he would ever trade his humanity for cash. Whereas the newer Stormz couldn’t give a single f*** to explain that fact.

"F*** what you think and suck my d***. I don’t need to explain anything to anybody."

He admitted he felt 'crippled by sadness' towards the end of summer last year, and had to rebuild his team and restructure his life.

"This year felt like I was in the wilderness, but if you’re a believer then you know that the wilderness is one of the most deliberate places God can choose to put you in – for this is where He often chooses to reveal Himself.

"So yes it’s been painful and at times I hated it but as the year ends and I reflect I can say that I am so so so so grateful for it."

Stormzy said he is currently in the studio creating his fourth album.

He added: "I am getting myself together and tryna do better. I am gifted and I am brilliant and I am capable. I am also human and I let myself down more than I’d like to admit."