Dizzee Rascal

I decided to research Dizzee Rascal . My reason for choosing him is because I felt that I can relate more to his style of music with the dancing and the girls in the video “Flex”. I felt that it was more similar to the rap videos that I’m used to seeing on BET and MTV all the time. So I searched around on Yahoo music and Google and here is what I found out about Mr. Rascal . Dizzee Rascal, who real name is Dylan Mills, grew up in the East End of London with his mother. Rascal music talent began when he was a teenager, started off making tracks on a classroom computer,in addition, getting some ideas from other known rappers from the U.S. that he admired. Later he released his first single “I Love you”, with his group, Roll Deep Crew, as underground artists under the white label.
The single helped lead the way of the beginning of the young artist ‘s way to success of his first album released in 2003 titled,” Boy In the Corner”, that was number twenty-three on the U.K. charts, also went platinum. Other albums that followed are, Showtime (2004), and Dream (2004) and several great other albums. I researched more about his music style and came across this description from Answer .com website in the entertainment section, “music is an electric mixture of garage and hip-hop beats with Palette of influences, ranging from metal guitars to found sounds, drill and bass synthlines, eclectic samples and even Japanese court music. His vocals, he uses fast style of rapping which blends elements from garage Mcing, conventional rap, grime, and reggae.” Some other interesting facts that I found from the same website. That in 2005, he had an endorsement deal with clothing ECKO and with Nike to design his own shoe!
Although he is from London , Dizzie is like any other U.S. rapper . From what I have read from his lyrics and listen to clips of other songs, he uses the hip-hop music to vent out anything that is on mind rather it is issues about his life growing up , present issues, money, girls, or even to up come with a new dance song , it is all the same like artists today. The only difference is the styles and his beats that sets him a part from other rap artists. Maybe his culture has somewhat of an impact of his hip-hop, but the messages are all the same.