Forget last year's Mercury Music Award and the fact that Bow born MC and producer Dizzee, will no doubt appeal to clueless white liberals seeking an instant injection of black, urban authenticity into their coffee tables. Also put aside his ...more
Rolling Stone
In many ways,Showtimeis like the great live rock & roll albums of yesteryear it's loose, energetic and sounds as if it were taped on a cassette recorder smuggled in under somebody's sweater. Unfortunately, that means Stephen Bladd's drums ...more
Slant Magazine
Imagine if I showed you one day I was leaving the hood/Would you call me a sell-out?" Dizzee Rascal, Mercury-anointed king of UK grime asks in the first line of "Imagine" during his sophomore albumShowtime's fantastic final lap. The wasp-buzz edge ...more
Rolling Stone
Twenty-year-old East London rap phenom Dizzee Rascal spun heads last year with his debut,Boy in Da Corner, which introduced his vicious PlayStation beats and mechanical-cockroach rhyme flow to the U.S.Showtimefinds Rascal molting off some of his ...more
PrefixMag
No one is going to argue that Dizzee Rascal isn’t a rising star who should take over hip-hop any day now. His lyrics are stunning, his live performances legendary: the emcee knows how to move a crowd. And his sophomore album, Showtime , ...more
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