Dizzee RascalBiography
Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born November 1, 1985), is a solo artist, formerly a Roll Deep crew member, who emerged from the UK Garage music scene. His music is 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 rap, grime and ragga.
Dizzee Rascal has numerous rivals within the Grime scene, mainly from the 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”.
Dizzee Rascal has had international endorsements deals with urban brand Ecko and designed his own shoe with Nike. He has also workwed with cross genre artist, Beck, on a remix of the song Hell Yes.
He released his first album in 2003, which was called ‘Boy In Da Corner.’ His second album ‘Showtime’ was then later released in 2004. ‘Maths and English’ was then released in 2008.
The well known catchy track from Maths and English, ‘Dance Wiv Me’ ft Calvin Harris was at the number one spot in the charts for for weeks, unbelievably knocking Ne-Yo off the number one top spot before being replaced by Kid Rock, All Summer Long.
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 rap, grime and ragga.
Dizzee Rascal has numerous rivals within the Grime scene, mainly from the 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”.
Dizzee Rascal has had international endorsements deals with urban brand Ecko and designed his own shoe with Nike. He has also workwed with cross genre artist, Beck, on a remix of the song Hell Yes.
He released his first album in 2003, which was called ‘Boy In Da Corner.’ His second album ‘Showtime’ was then later released in 2004. ‘Maths and English’ was then released in 2008.
The well known catchy track from Maths and English, ‘Dance Wiv Me’ ft Calvin Harris was at the number one spot in the charts for for weeks, unbelievably knocking Ne-Yo off the number one top spot before being replaced by Kid Rock, All Summer Long.
Edited by emma-lee1992 on 19 Nov 2008, 19:05
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