group+B-+europe.+Dizzee

=    = =      = =     =

=  <3 LOVE. = =  <3 LOVE. = =  <3 LOVE. = =  <3 LOVE. =

Dizzee grew up in the East End of London in South Bow on a council estate As a teenager, he was detained for stealing cars and robbing a pizza deliveryman, and expelled from four secondary schools. Jeff Chang in his article titled //Future Shock// explains Dizzee Rascal as a "fatherless child coming up in the East London council estates, aimless youth failed by the schools and the system but saved by music, bedroom beat-head who went top of the pops by representing his streets but can't escape their judgment. Right outside his front door, mates have turned predators...Childhood school chums who grow up to knife and shoot each other. There are no great leaps here. The daily is never routine. There are only moments for Dizzee to capture, encapsulate, and preserve, griot -like." A sympathetic music teacher introduced him to music production on a school computer. He began MCing on [|pirate radio] and at raves at fifteen, but since his mainstream success he has distanced himself from the now growing scene. He used to be a member of the [|Roll Deep] crew, until a conflict with former friend Wiley. 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. Like most Grime artists, he utilizes "beats born of ringtones, video games and staticky pirate-radio sounds" Dizzee's tracks are traditional Grime in that the beats are often asymmetrical and make it difficult to dance to his music. His vocal performance is also distinctive, he uses a fast style of rapping which blends elements from garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga. He raps about the same issues a confused generation of youth tends to; broken family, faithless mentors and a lack of support. Dizzee's videos are similar to many grime and garage artists in the UK. They are frenetic and fast, often matching the speed of the rapping. This is especially visible in the videos to "Fix up, look sharp" video and " I Love You". Although his fast style of rapping and his subject matter are nothing more than ordinary in the UK, Dizzee Rascal's diversity nonetheless separates him from other UK rappers. In songs like "Just remember this: I am you" and "Cut 'em off", "when Dizzee thinks very deeply—worrying about growing up, about those around him who won't grow up, about dying before he grows up—he sounds like"...."He delivers threats with KRS-style meta-awareness" More than just as a venue through Dizze Rascal chooses to express his thoughts, "music stopped him from drifting into crime like many others on his estate." Dizzee is probably the best known grime artist to Americans. He worked closely with his mentor Wiley who created one of the first grime tracks called "Eskimo". Dizzee's third album // MATH + ENGLISH // was released on June 4, 2007. He stated in an interview before the album's release that "Maths" refers to producing, in terms of beats, deals and money and "English" to writing lyrics. The first single off this album, //Sirens//, was released on May 21. While American influences were vital to the creative evolution of “Maths & English,” the album never compromises its distinctively British identity. // Maths + English // was one of the 12 nominees for the 2007 Mercury Prize, which went to [|The Klaxons] ' album // [|Myths of the Near Future] //. The official U.S. release date was announced to be April 29, 2008 , in retail stores and it will contain 2 new tracks. It is to be released on Definitive Jux.

<3 LOVE.   <3 LOVE.     <3 LOVE.     <3 LOVE.
media type="youtube" key="tUPleuj42w0&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"