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Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born November 1, 1985), is a solo artist, formerly a Roll Deep crew member, who emerged from the UK Garage music scene. His music is a blend of garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga, with some more eclectic samples.
Dizzee began MCing on pirate radio and at raves at fifteen, but since his mainstream success he has distanced himself from the fledgling scene. Rascal grew up in the East End of London in south Bow in a council estate, raised by his single mother, a Ghanaian immigrant. Little is known about his father, though it is thought that he died when Mills was two. He attributes his musical development to a school teacher who allowed him to skip regular classes and spend time working on music on the school computers.
His music is an eclectic mixture of garage and hip-hop beats with an extremely broad palette of influences, ranging from metal guitars to found sounds, drill and bass synth lines, eclectic samples and even Japanese court music. His vocal performance is also distinctive, he uses a fast version of rapping (known as ‘spitting’) which blends elements from garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga.
Dizzee Rascal has numerous rivals within the Grime scene, mainly from the East London area. A notable rival of Dizzee Rascal is Crazy Titch who produced and recorded a diss called “Just An Arsehole” which used the backing track of Dizzee’s record of “Jus A Rascal”.
Dizzee began MCing on pirate radio and at raves at fifteen, but since his mainstream success he has distanced himself from the fledgling scene. Rascal grew up in the East End of London in south Bow in a council estate, raised by his single mother, a Ghanaian immigrant. Little is known about his father, though it is thought that he died when Mills was two. He attributes his musical development to a school teacher who allowed him to skip regular classes and spend time working on music on the school computers.
His music is an eclectic mixture of garage and hip-hop beats with an extremely broad palette of influences, ranging from metal guitars to found sounds, drill and bass synth lines, eclectic samples and even Japanese court music. His vocal performance is also distinctive, he uses a fast version of rapping (known as ‘spitting’) which blends elements from garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga.
Dizzee Rascal has numerous rivals within the Grime scene, mainly from the East London area. A notable rival of Dizzee Rascal is Crazy Titch who produced and recorded a diss called “Just An Arsehole” which used the backing track of Dizzee’s record of “Jus A Rascal”.
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Play Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Dave Spoon remix)
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Play DIZZEE RASCAL @ sonar 2007
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Play Dizzee Rascal - Da Feelin'
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Play Dizzee rascal - flex
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pandaxvii wrote:
fix up look sharp dont make me paint a bitch wats that get dark
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Declan87 wrote:
FootToFace its more 'screwface' than 'screwed face', but yeah it is basically 'angry face'.
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koolgfunk187 wrote:
it's too bad he leave off making grime music, on maths+english was only one grimy tune, but he's still greate
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karlsaint wrote:
keisha white is back www.keishawhite.com
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Tom_GR wrote:
Join us! We Love Awful Artist Pics!
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FootToFace wrote:
screwed face means you don't know me what you lookin at whats your beef
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nineteen92 wrote:
boy in da corner is the illmatic of the uk scene, but lowe dizzee now that tune he done with the ting tings was the most embarassin shit ive ever heard
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JamesHeather wrote:
got 5 tickets for this going - £20 each inc b/fee at kentish town forum saturday night. if your interested please ring anna on 07515158027
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Anyone heard new song Bonkers live? (Think thats what it was called). Fucking stunning track!
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emma-lee1992 wrote:
i love dizzeeeeeee
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sxylauz2k8 wrote:
woop woop saw him last nite! he was immence! luv him it was amazin! xx
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lilposeremz wrote:
Cnt wait 4 the gig 2nitee :P hehe x
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JoeB1991 wrote:
I Luv U still up there makes me happy
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xlydia2k8x wrote:
seein him tonite wooooo
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xSTEx wrote:
Dommieblues most likely a metal head who cannnot respect any music apart from his own.
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pabulous wrote:
you're all retarded.
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Dommieblues wrote:
Cant spell crap without rap.
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stickmatrix wrote:
faggots here think hes sold out because he's progressed his own sound as an artist. imo grow a dick/some tits and move on
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Crawdaunt wrote:
boy in da corner is the best grime album ever made, u got to respect dizzee for that even though hes doing mainstream now
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Conatz wrote:
fell off hard. and yeah, English people speak English weird.