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Bow, East London (2003 – present)

Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born November 1, 1985), is a grime solo artist, formerly a Roll Deep crew member, who emerged from the UK Garage music scene. His music was 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 , and .

Dizzee Rascal has numerous rivals within the Grime scene, mainly from the Bow, 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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  • SemyonSlash

    BIG DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! BIG DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY DIRTY STINKING BASSSS!

    3 May 7:20am Reply

  • taubstumm

    BIG DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY STINKING DIRTY DIRTY!! [2]

    21 Apr 8:59pm Reply

  • Paoolina

    TELL HIM AGAIN!

    4 Apr 6:01pm Reply

  • Occulta66

    like the "Get By" track, it's amazing

    7 Mar 9:19am Reply

  • steve__

    What the fuck? What are you doing? Don't touch it Don't. Who told you to touch it? I will fucking kill you don't ever touch that fucking shit again

    2 Mar 8:13pm Reply

  • abhishekpaul

    BIG DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY STINKING BASSSS! DIRTY STINKING DIRTY DIRTY!!

    18 Feb 6:17am Reply

  • MrBrYcE

    this is all wrong. rewind back to 2003

    26 Jan 10:28pm Reply

  • Lady_Laq

    He released two free mixtapes which have grime tracks on it. So you cannot say he doesn't make grime anymore. Of course, it's easier just to hate for the sake of it.

    19 Jan 6:55pm Reply

  • gggfunk

    sprzedam płytę "maths + english", zaintteresowani podbijać na pm. nówka zafoliowana

    20 Dec 2012 Reply

  • bloodmaw

    he needs to get back to his roots. Stop Dat is fucking raw classic grime.

    18 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Yeah_Brah

    I have no problem with Dizzee making more positive music, but Tongue n' Cheek is just forgetable club music. Just bcs he doesn't live in the ghetto doesn't mean that he should make generic pop shit like that. For real, he is just another radio hitmaker now, there is nothing original, witty or interesting in his music....

    14 Dec 2012 Reply

  • erichass

    CAN i JUST SAY THAT i REEMEMBER READING ABOUT THIS ALBUM IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN 2005 OR SUMTHING AND IF ID ACTUALLY LISTENED TO IT IT WOULD HAVE ADVANCE MY MUSICAL EDUCATION BY LIKE 4 YEARS. GOD DAMN IT

    10 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Luky7

    i hate anything british but this thing maded it

    6 Nov 2012 Reply

  • steve__

    Maths and English stoopid

    31 Oct 2012 Reply

  • haleakalari

    this guy's first two full length albums were amazing ('boy in da corner' and 'showtime'). he seems to have given up though, because everything released since then just sounds like generic garbage.

    13 Oct 2012 Reply

  • steve__

    So just be easy nigger...

    8 Sep 2012 Reply

  • Flipkieken

    His Olympic Track is unveiled. http://glopop.co.uk/2012/07/26/dizee-rascal-pepper-for-olympic-track-scream-watch-here/

    26 Jul 2012 Reply

  • klasyg-na-wolno

    Jus' a Rascal out of the top15, what the fuck?

    24 Jul 2012 Reply

  • kennardjon

    Oh my days, what is he like? Dizzee dot com, Dizzee dot bust mic

    20 Jun 2012 Reply

  • bloodmaw

    v thank you

    10 Jun 2012 Reply
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