English rapper/producer Dizzee Rascal’s brash, bold debut album, Boy In Da Corner sounded like the future when it won the Mercury Prize in 2003, and it still does today. Often teetering on the brink of either cracking a smile or bursting into tears while delivering his boastful, wistful, and dread-filled rhymes, the hormonally charged voice of East London’s Dizzee Rascal is instantly recognizable. It seems as though Dizee was rewriting the UK underground rulebook, slipping from hip hop into to garage with ease. With prototype distorted electronic kid 606 beats, to a array of distorted beats and wobblying basslines, grime was here to stay!
