Nobody needs another blog entry giving you the whole Dizzee Rascal backstory. One google search and you'll learn way more about him than I can tell you. I will tell you this though. He's top of the pops in the world of grime and he's about to unleash his third album "Maths and English". This time out he's taken his flow in a new 3rd coast Houston direction. Needless to say some of the kids are loving it but other folks are hating hard. Most notably his one time mentor Wiley, who may or may not be the intended target of a diss song included on the new album.
The first cut I heard was "Hard Back Industry". " The song's I'm Just a Bill steeze is helpfully instructive. Dizzee breaks down the rules of the music game, schoolin youngins on the finer points of business. He's got advise worth heeding and seeing as this is his third album in a genre that produced mostly debuts, he might be on to something. Then he came round the bend blasting the single "Sirens" with a fly little video hot on his heels. There's a full hunting party dressed for the occasion, with Dizzee playing the role of resident sly fox. He slips in and out of corners in the video, paralleling his flow through the beat. Staying completely in the shadows you can hear how dark things are for him.
Dizzee Rascal - "Hard Back Industry"
Dizzee Rascal - "Sirens"
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