Dizzee Rascal is now 20 and intent on delivering a masterpiece that further affirms the litany of hype that entails him. Take note, however, that “Boy In The Corner” was crafted years ago in a 16-year-old Dizzee Rascal’s room, as an escape from the horrific realities presented on disc. Dizzee’s debut from last year, “Boy In The Corner”, was in many senses a perfect map of grime’s fascinating sound, charting its leftfield, electro beats and frighteningly bare-boned depictions of inner city life. Grime is what happens when you attempt a cross-pollination of garage and infuse it with the brutality, stoic sullenness and graven imagery of East Coast gangsta rap.
A positively explosive phenomenon on British shores, garage and two-step has taken precedence as the most popular soundtrack to a British night out- a fusion of dancehall, hip-hop, soul and funk-heavy house that lies equally entrenched in European techno and American urban traditions. While American journos get tongue-tied attempting to invent a new genre to throw him in, the English have figured it out years ago, viewing Dizzee as the foremost exponent of a style they have aptly termed ‘grime’, a logical musical progression to the bustling garage scene that boasted artists as unabashedly party-oriented as Sunship, Deep Biscuit Crew, MJ Cole and Artful Dodger to harder-edged acts like Oxide & Neutrino. Few artists have received quite as much ink or superlatives from electronic music scribes, who find themselves stumbling over each other in an effort to describe the inner London native’s baffling sound. Whether you read URB, XLR8R, Mass Appeal or Knowledge, you would have no doubt have realised the ascending star of Dizzee Rascal.
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