Dizzee's in OMM this Saturday....
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:
“Everything I do is for the music – I want to master it like Bruce Lee mastered martial arts.” RHYME AND REASON Has Dizzee Rascal made the best British hip hop album ever? Dizzee Rascal is not proud of everything in his past, he tells Ben Thompson in a remarkably frank interview in this Sunday’s Observer Music Monthly magazine. But he’s more than happy with his astonishing new album. ‘Getting sucked back in,’ grimaces Dizzee, now a worldly-wise 22-year-old, ‘that’s the story of my fucking life.’ It would be easy to say that his third album, Maths & English, is the sound of Dizzee breaking free of the forces that seek to contain him, but it would not quite be true. It’s more that he has used those pressures to push forward – turning negatives into positives with the ease of a practised alchemist. And it should take nothing away from his first two albums to say that his third is the most complete, intense and thrilling British hip hop record ever made. Bar none…
Read the full interview this Sunday in the Observer Music Monthly.
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