Live Review: Dizzee Rascal
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think about Dizzee Rascal’s inexorable rise to fame. What, exactly, is he up to? See, for all the cringeworthy T4 On The Beach appearances and chart-straddling Calvin Harris collaborations of late, there’s...
Album review: Dizzee Rascal - 'Tongue N' Cheek...
Meet Dizzee Rascal , bona fide pop star. He might have needed leg-ups from Calvin and Armand , but scoring back-to-back Number Ones is still an achievement when the industry’s geared towards stage-school munchkins like Pixie Lott and...
Dizzee Rascal
Here’s how it works. You get to the door. You get patted down. You then pass through a metal detector. You then get patted down again. Just for luck. Welcome to British urban music one week after the Chernobyl of the sixth annual Urban Music...
Dizzee Rascal Ft Calvin Harris And Chrome
There are many reasons to hate this. One: Calvin Harris, singing like he’s reading the disclaimer on a direct debit mandate. Two: the middle-eight, where Dizzee tells his quarry she “made a real effort tonight and it shows”. Three: the ‘in...
Dizzee Rascal, Newham Generals and Ebony Bones
So, after three critic-creaming albums, each enhancing his reputation as the UK’s foremost hip-hop/rap/grime/urban (whatever the frig you want to call it) artist, how does Dizzee Rascal up the game? “You wanna hear some new shit?” he whoops...
Dizzee Rascal
An ode to the noble art of shaking one’s behind, ‘Flex’ sees Dizzee deciding to get all jazzy on our ass. It’s a two-step samba that would work just as well blaring from the soundsystems of the Rio carnival as it would tinnily making its...
Dizzee Rascal
Presumably the "Old Skool" bit refers to the practice of building a song around a sample from Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's '80s rap classic "It Takes Two", rather than the playground name calling. "Why you rollin" with that pussyole? You know that...
Dizzee Rascal, KOKO London, Thursday, June 14
Trilby manufacturers are worried. Lost in the Babyshambles boom of 2005, the silly milliners bought a house and put their kids into private education. Unfortunately, though, it doesn’t look like little Frankie will long be attending Faris’...
Dizzee Rascal
The boy in da corner moves rap forward, with a little help from Alex Turner With the grime scene less ascendant in the mainstream than it once threatened to be, Dizzee finds himself head of a decapitated scene, alienated within the consciousness...
Dizzee Rascal
Young Dylan Mills once recommended you respect him even if it killed you. A tall order, frankly, but Dizzee Rascal’s done much since to become, well, respectable. He sampled Captain Sensible’s cutie-pie hit ‘Happy Talk’. He did a little...
