Stamma Gramma

Michael K Williams, born May 17, 1991 popularly known by his stage name Stamma Gramma is a dancehall artist, journalist and podcaster. Williams was born in Kingston, Jamaica but relocated to the United States in 2008. In New York he studied Computer Science at Lehman College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems in 2018. As a youth, Stamma Gramma was highly regarded for his rapping ability by his Jamaica College school mates, who had seen the young artists successfully challenge several students throughout the school in lyrical battles despite the disadvantage of a speech impediment.He was groomed musically from an early age by his father, Michael Williams senior who was regarded as one of the top sound engineers on the east coast of Jamaica. Williams senior, to his credit, saw the talent, drive and potential in his son early and decided to guide him towards the path to success, contributing as his manager and mentor up until 2009.In 2016, Stamma Gramma decided to take a break from the music scene in order to tend to what he described as “personal family matters” and after nearly a three-year hiatus from music, he reemerged from the shadows and reinvented his image, path and direction, as a podcaster in Jan, 2020.In what the artist describes as a “new beginning”, Stamma Gramma’s new podcast career gained notoriety when his third episode, titled “Dancehall Gone Wild” gained over 800,000 views on WorldStarHipHop.