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Boy in da Corner
by Dizzee Rascal
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Overall Rating:
3.5479
Avg. Critic Score:
3.4682
Boy in da Corner Rank 4 Reviews
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The GuardianThe most original and exciting artist to emerge from dance music in a decade. ...more
JunkmediaCorner's gutter low ends, amphetamine drum programming, and Dizzee's cockney slang-spitting place this record among rap's paradigmatic moments. ...more
PopMattersIt is an album that can be loved as both an achievement and an experience, a document and a revelation; it is simultaneously a problem to be solved and a spectacle to simply witness. ...more
Stylus MagazineAt age 18, on the threshold of adulthood, Dylan Mills finds himself stuck in a chaotic environment that he is unable to comprehend. "It was only yesterday that life was a touch more sweet," he reminisces in "Sittin' Here." The track embodies ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes.comgn="left" width="71" height="71">Boy In Da Corner XL, 2003 rating: 5/5 reviewer: husky You know, it has been a long time since I have been a real fan of a band. When I was somewhat younger I really liked the Eels, and well, you can probably ...more
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Stylus MagazineMost of Boy in Da Corner's most compelling moments come from this uneasy interaction between irrational youth and ultra-rational mechanized society. ...more
PitchforkDizzee's despairing wail, focused anger, and cutting sonics places him on the front lines in the battle against a stultifying Britain, just as Pete Townshend, Johnny Rotten, and Morrissey have been in the past. ...more
Pitch Fork MediaHip-hop, one of America's last bastions of regionalism, is threatening to exalt itself out of its local roots. Authenticity issues still insist the genre is tied to the street, but where a hip-hop province used to be as compressed as the South ...more
E! OnlineIt's as gripping as N.W.A.'s groundbreaking Straight Outta Compton. ...more
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)His adolescent gulps and yowls are street-Brit with a Jamaican liquidity, as lean, eccentric, and arresting as the beats. ...more
Village VoiceWhen 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, what else can we call it, the real thing. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)It all makes for a bleak spread, but Rascal rises up as a singular musical presence too brimming and perceptive to let the coarse world around him pass by untouched. ...more
Neumu.netBoy in da Corner defies genre in a defiant manner, refusing to be defined, refusing, even, to be dismissed. ...more
SplendidIf Boy In Da Corner marks the beginning of distinctly British hip-hop, the genre's standards are already impressively high. ...more
New Musical ExpressOne of the most assured debut albums of the last five years. ...more
Adrian Denning.co.ukGrime is an underground music scene that's evolved out of garage and drum n bass. It exists largely outside of the music business, preferring to organize for itself late night raves, broadcast over numerous London pirate radio stations, etc. The ...more
nme.comIn 2002, UK Garage's bid for popularity crashed and burned. Acts like More Fire Crew turned out bullish garage-rap LPs with barrels of braggadocio but precious little substance. The likes of Romeo and Lisa Maffia learnt to assimilate or die, ...more
All Music GuideStartling, tirelessly powerful, and full of unlimited dimensions. ...more
Entertainment WeeklyThanks to the Streets, Ms. Dynamite, and other bright lights of the scene, British hip-hop is no longer the joke it's often been. It's even less of a laughing matter on Boy in da Corner , the much-heralded debut of 19-year-old rhymer Dylan ...more
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