Artist: Dizzee Rascal Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Electronic
Discography:
Maths and English (Hk) Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Maths and English Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Showtime Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Boy in Da Corner Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Dizzee Rascal was 1 of the U.K.'s virtually prominent music subjects during the latter half of 2003. Just a few months prior to winning his country's Mercury Prize -- for
Boy in da Corner, his debut album -- his identify was known only by his peers and dear followers of the garage scene. Though the advanced MC/producer was but 18 at the time of the album's dismission, there was deal to speak around beyond his medicine.
Born Dylan Mills, Dizzee Rascal grew up in a council estate of the realm in East London and was brocaded as a single tyke by his mother. He didn't fare well in schools; he was booted from several of them, frequently for altercations with teachers. While non in school, he got himself into further trouble by robbing pizza pie deliverers and thieving cars. One picky music division, however, proven to be a safe harbour and helped push him in an take turns instruction. With living from his teacher, he began making his have productions on a schoolroom computer. Noisy, off-kilter tracks were made to back his own MCing, since he institute that the average garage track was non suitable for his style of delivery. Taking cues from a host of admired U.S. MCs, Mills began to develop his songwriting skills, which began to take on an increasingly introverted character. He was no stranger to making crowing pronouncements, simply he john Drew from his own life and versatile mind states in a way that few former MCs -- careless of background and nationality -- had done before.
When Mills recorded the underground white-label exclusive "I Luv U," he had just started to constitute a identify for himself in the U.K. garage shot, as a fellow member of Roll Deep Crew. He, his lad crew members, and a cast of other groups and MCs were construction on a more strong-growing and abrasive offset of relatively slipperiness, R&B-oriented garage that would begin to be referred to as stain. "I Luv U" became i of grime's key singles and paved the way for Mills' low gear uncut album, which was routinely praised by critics upon initial acquittance in July of 2003. In what mightiness take ab initio seemed like a press stunt to cynics, Mills was stabbed several times piece visiting Ayia Napa, a repair in Cyprus, just in front its street date. He made a secure recovery, picked up the 2003 Mercury Prize a couple months later, guested on Basement Jaxx's
Kish Kash, and saw his album receive a U.S. loss in January of 2004. He became more of an underground sense datum stateside; Anglophiles with equalise passion for dance medicine and hip-hop tended to embracing him, spell others found themselves baffled by all of the ballyhoo. In September of 2004, Dizzee released
Showtime world, followed by
Maths and English in 2007. Between the loss of the two albums, Dizzee set up a fledgeling label for jr. natural endowment called Dirtee Stank.
