dizzee rascal - maths and english

OTOH, if I was in school now I would doubtless have rewritten "Biology" to be something like "you can't escape from Geography"

too early to suppose anything about this album yet really i guess; certainly easier to be pessimistic based on, well, 'wasteman' which sounds so-so but u can't really hear the mp3 that's around properly anyway, the very mediocre track logan played yesterday that probly won't be on the album, and the rinse fm guest appearance and murkle man remix wot went WHOOOAAA-to-meh in about 10 seconds. maybe the only thing there is to say so far is that this definitely the album where he lets other people in, having been around the world and ay ay ay the last few years, or better yet the one where he'll have to confront the grime he helped establish on its own half-grown-up terms, for better or worse. i really hope this'll mean more than a klass a guest spot on a footsie riddim featuring bun b or something.

still tho, this is dizzee, and no one else can ever say "i like to move it move it / u want beef? / prove it" quite like he does.

I'll see what it sounds like when I've heard some of it. But I'm not going to waste twelve quid on the mere basis that "this is Dizzee."

I doubt this will be THAT commercial. My suspicion is that this will follow the formula of the past two - non-stop for the first four or five tracks, descends into abject hell in the middle then pulls you back from the brink with a great pop song (Jus' A Rascal, Dream), ends on trademark philosophical note.

Other grime albums are irrelevant to this discussion because unlike everyone else Dizzee has proven he's a compelling enough persona to sustain interest throughout an entire album no matter how inaccessible the music becomes. Which can't really be said for Wiley or Lethal.

i think dizzee will make a success of whatever kind of beats he chooses to work with, i'm curious as to what subject matter he'll be dealing with though.

xp

This can be reversed, of course. Album titles that would have made sick-ass school subjects...

Mutations
Dig Your Own Hole
Pornography

and what a fucking great album as well

newham generals myspace has that 'best of vol.1' mixtape 'coming soon'.

Because it's short for mathematics, a generalised (note the s in that word :) ) plural of all number and measurement studies.

On the album itself, I hope it's more like his first than sophomore effort because I do like Dissee Razcal. ;)

easy fam happy new year n all dat !

just in studio at moment putting finishing touches to Maths n English. Its sounding nang so hopefully it will ave been worth da wait !
No official date for release but keep checking on here n www.myspace.com/dizzeerascal for da freshest news on releases,tours n wit wasapenin wit me n all tings Dirtee Stankin in 2007. Look out for a Maths n English tour wit Newham Generals and da Gens 1st release on Dirtee Stank Recordings 'Welcome to Newham' in da upcoming months.

2 dates already booked 4 07 are Gurten Festival in Switzerland and da Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal.

stay blessed

Dizzee Rascal:
Spare a thought this yuletide for the deprived
If the table was turned would you survive

Busted:
Here's to them

Justin Hawkins (Darkness):
Underneath that burning sun

Dizzee Rascal:
You ain’t gotta feel guilt just selfless
Give a little help to the helpless

GOT IT! 'bubbles' reminds me of 'milkshake', totally.

this was the one i played out yesterday. people nodded their heads.

its leaked?

ok this album is fucking great, actually. listening to my favourites off BIDC back to back with my favourites off M&E and there's nothing to be disappointed by.

yeah but you love cheesy stuff!

only the good cheese. camembert, haloumi, smoked gouda, emmental.

this album is sounding like the kraft foods of cheesy rap though

(haloumi and emmental are both v good cheeses btw)

Ha ha I looked at that list of cheeses and felt very hungry. Lex if you ever come to Australia (or I ever return to the UK) let's hold a haloumi barbeque.

i went to a bbq on sunday called HOTTER THAN CHICKS. no haloumi sadly but some lovely chicken & rice.

all this talk of haloumi = dilemma of where to go for lunch today solved

Camembert > Halloumi > Gouda >>>>>>>>> Emmental

London-based rapper Dizzee Rascal will release his next album, "Maths & English," for XL/Beggars Group on June 5 in the U.S. In a first for XL/Beggars Group, Billboard.biz has learned that the album will only be serviced to digital outlets in North America, and the label is not planning on releasing on physical CD outside of the U.K. and Europe. "Maths & English" will, however, be released as a physical product overseas, where Dizzee Rascal has met much more success....

"Maths & English" is Dizzee Rascal's third album, the follow-up to 2004's "Showtime." The sophomore effort has sold 16,000 units to date in the U.S., according to Nielsen Soundscan. The number was a significant dip from the 58,000 copies sold by his 2003 debut, "Boy in da Corner," which arrived Stateside under massive amounts of buzz.

The two varying statistics persuaded XL/Beggars to go the most cost-effective digital route with "Maths & English" in the U.S. "Many of the sales of the first record were a lot of impulse buying," says Beggars Group VP of marketing Matt Harmon. "It was the feeling that people were missing something if they didn't own that record. That didn't mean that everyone was a fan. It just meant we were selling a lot more records. So coming to this album, we're going into it with a readjusted, more realistic view of it."

Harmon says "Maths & English" will be available at every digital retailer the label has a deal with, ranging from Apple's iTunes store to eMusic to recently-launched download outlet for New York-based retailer Other Music.

i guess "overseas" means uk & europe in that paragraph?

http://music.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,2087180,00.html

good review lex. i agree with what you said actually. i like the album a lot. i almost wanted it to be TOTALLY party oriented actually. id love dizzee to have done more funky house type songs. and dizzee sounds great on it. i forgot just how good an MC he is (though not always that best when hes trying too hard to find something worthy to say).

really not feeling this. and what's with all the drum n bass?

Yeah this is swag. Playtime is over is far better.

its cheesy and shit but its good cheesy shit.

playtime is over is boooooooring. not in an awful way but it's just so competently ok and unexciting. roll deep album is the same.

playtime is over is good. maybe you just dont like grime anymore. although the thing with playtime is that it feels like wiley kept it 'proper grime' just cos he had to, not cos he really wanted to. he sounds like hes TRYING to sound all excited and energised but you can tell its a bit of a facade. whereas with dizzee the one track on the album where he sounds like that is weirdly, the 'proper grime' track at the end. great beat but sounds a bit pointless. like his heart isnt really in that anymore. the anger has gone so it sounds empty.

no, i like grime, i just don't like wiley's mcing any more, or at least i don't mind it but there isn't a single line on the album which makes me care about it. i like grime like this

ok found it, here we go.

sigh titch if youre saying wiley's heart's not in it, and you can really tell, then pray tell what you think's good about playtime then?

rtc, the beats are great. fly boy, no qualms, all brill. but wileys never been a top mc to me anyway. too wordy. half dazed, half the time. and rates himself too highly. 'they just cant get along with wiley.' who gives a fuck?! too self absorbed. dont wanna hear about all the troubles hes had anymore. havent really rated any of his bars or been able to remember them in years.

lex that track is great. i think female mcs are generally really great in grime. there isnt a weak verse in that track. whereas if it was YET ANOTHER FUCKING MALE POSSE CUT you know half the verses would be rub.

i am slightly scared by those girls though. where is that track from? is it on no lays mix cd?

nah that's not dropped yet - someone just sent me the youtube link. there are loads of grime videos like that on youtube.

"Wanna Be" is fucking appalling, it sounds like a CBBC sitcom theme.

the ukg track omg

ugk obv

whole album is teh shit btw

I liked Showtime better than BIDC so I'm guessing I'll love this

Lex was sort of getting there on his review but the real jump-off point for a lot of this record is 'Fickle'.

It sounded fucking great in the sunshine, btw, especially that trio of songs in the middle. Flex is fantastic, especially as I keep expecting it to turn into Double 99 at any minute.

Okay this is easily as good as either of his previous two, and at least six tracks are up there with anything he's ever done. I think my favourite *moment* is midway through Suck My Dick, when he goes "I don't give a shit who likes it, I don't give a shit who don't, don't tell me to change my fucking attitude because I won't", and a bit of Yankee Doodle plays in the background.

no no, the real jump off for this record is just a rascal.

getting from eMusic right now though I despair of anything as wonderful as "Dream," which would be on my top 20 songs of all time list if I made such lists

the song with lilly allen is twice as wonderful as dream.

So this is iTunes-only in the U.S. or what?

<i>Harmon says "Maths & English" will be available at every digital retailer the label has a deal with, ranging from Apple's iTunes store to eMusic to recently-launched download outlet for New York-based retailer Other Music.

-- maura, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:32 (1 week ago) Link</i>

people wiht insomnia should not attempt tags

ALL I SEE IS BARE POP ON THE TV

love that line

i always hear ALL I SEE IS BARE COOKS ON THE TV and v much enjoy the thought of a dizz/gordon ramsay beef - i mean he's slagged off dizz collaborator lily allen after all

seriously if they dont release the track with lilly i am going to be very annoyed. that track is so so so good. and the bass drops and wonky sort of ragga-ish programming is brilliant. but then i am one of the few people who loved dream too. i see these tracks as dizzee going into slick rick hey young world territory (but for cbeebies viewers).

I don't really like the Lily Allen track (it's better than the Alex Turner one which is REALLY limp) but the bassline is great. Mostly because it's basically the bassline from The Whistler by Claude Vonstroke.

People who've slagged off Lily Allen > telephone directory

he's saying 'poop' tho. which sounds more like, er, 'püpp' in the londonish innit.

for a second there i thought he was saying HOW MANY REAL COOKS ON THE TV?? (with ref to coke dealers presumably) and i was all like YES THANK YOU someone else noticed that that james martin doesnt know what he's doing in the slightest. but he's probably saying crooks.

XFUCKINGPOST bah

i will be taking his advice to read a book, find a pretty girl and settle tho. thanks dizz!

(also "you're a fan of hiphop, wanking when you hear them rappers talk" on his vanity track with legends no one in london could care less about? whatevs!)

hes saying CROOKS and then hes saying MOOKS.

i like temptation - the programming is very BIDC, and his rapping on there is as close as this album gets to old grimier (and more original) pirate radio dizzee but its ruined by the wanky arctic monkeys samples. the guitar sample would be okay on its own but having alex turner on the chorus too was too 'please notice me nme reader'.

i love footsie on the last song when he says 'rudeboy whats all the hypin for' and i get a morbid thrill out of dizzee talking about the leng but it sounds too affected. some of the choruses on this album are really infantile btw (eg - cant tell me nothin, suck my dick etc)

""you're a fan of hiphop, wanking when you hear them rappers talk"

that line was a bit rich i thought seeing as a fair amount of his rhymes/themes for songs are basically reheated narratives from american rap records.

I understand that Dizzee Rascal will be making an appearance on COOKS UNCOVERED on the 137 bus screen sometime next Tuesday.

really loving this album, the UGK tracks reminds me of some of the weird west coast rap radio in the late eighties - actually so do a lot of the sounds here

Bugsy Malone track is great. :>

the UGK track is like 1993 g-funk meets houston rap circa 2005.

does anyone but me think this might actually be dizzees best 'album' so far? as in album as front to back experience?

this is my first day listening but the impression I took away from the second run-through was that it was a very very solid album, yeah, certainly put together better than Showtime - peaks maybe less conspicuous (no "Stand Up Tall," no "Dream") but the overall effect was really dazzling

Yeah I've been looping it all morning, the only things I'm skipping are the first track and Sirens once the guitars come in. :>

the potential for how good the vid for the song with lallen could be....

The bit when the guitars come in on Sirens is the best bit. It's not my favourite but I don't see why it's such a big deal, surely its such another nasty abraisive noise to add to his arsenal?

So nu-metal. :(

1. Sirens is good because it sounds like an NWA jack or something

2. the drum n bass song w/ the sped up vocal sample is my favorite

the instrumental break at the end of it should be like double that length tho

but matt you dance or 'mosh' or whatever you people call it to rage against the machine in public w/ no shame :(

the best video for 'wanna be' would be one where lily allen properly plays up to the posh totty role. i'm thinking notting hill house party, i'm thinking dizz arguing with someone in the doorway, i'm thinking immaculately coiffed lily coming up behind him and looking down her nose at the wiley/groupie figure.

the worst video for 'wanna be' would be one where they dress up as bonnie & clyde. fergie ferg and luda have done that this year much better than lily and dizz could ever do.

i don't like the song with lily allen at all, and its not some irrational lily allen hating. its just a really really boring song

Video for Suck My Dick now as well please.

well for that one dizz should obv just get his cock out. more "sexual prey" imagery please

i like the drum n bass song with shy fx but its the cheesiest fucking drum n bass ever. not even very well produced. quite lazily put together as a beat, like autopilot D&B. still, im sure it will be embraced in high street womens clothing shops everywhere.

flex is brill though.

i still dont quite see the 'sexual prey' angle in sirens personally.

i think he's saying that all he sees is BEAR POOP on the tv.

its just a really really boring song

Really? I like what they did with the sample and the hook.

Dizzee Rascal has the head of a fat person.

Like, his head would look OK if he put 12 stone on, but as it stands it just weirds me out.

haha

i just thought of one for the suck my dick one. have you seen the film boomerang where the gay video director gives eddie murphys character a treatment for a tv advert and its just full of women sucking or licking phallic or scrotal looking fruit? i think it should be like that. with various women sucking cucumbers, bananas, aubergines, corn on the cobs and things like that.

not women. WILEY LOOKALIKES

"sexual prey" was v silly obv, i think it was shorthand for "dizz is well fit in the 'sirens' video"

the hook is so proper! i think maybe i just don't like its britishisms. like how 'jus a rascal' was my initial favorite dizzee song, i like the shit that sounds more like rap

i am fine with 'lazy d'n'b' if it sounds like not-lazy pop

the ugk song is good, goes w/out saying even

does someone have a list of production credits?

"WILEY LOOKALIKES"

maybe when lilly is chastising 'wastemen' and people whose mums buy their bling she can be saying it to wiley lookalikes. all dressed in eskimo wear just to drive the point a bit further. rolling in deep waters as well. they could be divers.

the hook is so proper!

But that's coming right out of the Hard Knock Life school!

xp - i think dizzee produced it all.

"i like the shit that sounds more like rap"

^^^the type of ppl to blame for the direction dizzee is going in.

he didn't - shy fx did the cheesy drum'n'bass for a start - sadly i have thrown out the list of prod credits i had :(

does anyone else love 'bubbles' as much as i do?

Bubbles is great.

i think 'sounds like rap' might mean something different to me than you think tho in this context...as far as tempo i prefer the faster stuff, his double-time rapping, etc

i'm talking more in terms of vibe.

i think cage did some of it or co produced it with dizzee too. bubbles is fun but the singles i hope he releases are, in order: flex, maybe backed by the track with shy fx, or separately, one after the other. obv, get some ukg producers to remix flex, and some (not shit) D&B producers to remix the latter. and then around xmas time, release the one with lilly allen. ;) although xmas is too far i know, so maybe just make that the fourth single whenever.

when you say sounds like rap, you mean sounds more like 'normal' hip hop right? cos yeah he raps fast on other tracks like stop dat, but its diff to something like just a rascal cos the timing and flows are still more like the type of double time flows you get in hip hop.

I think more about tempo than the beats, he picks a lot of tempos that are inbetween common hip-hop ones (although this album probably has more rap tempos than ever?).

in general, i think dizzee sounds a bit shit when he raps slow IMO (like the first track on this album). its like his failings come into quick focus when he does that.

Man this is great. Or anyway, it's much better than I feared. Hey look, somebody saved my old seat on the bandwagon.

If this album has one failing, it's that the emo contemplative tracks aren't anywhere near as strong as Brand New Day, or Sittin' Here, or Imagine.

dizzees non contemplative tracks>>>>his contemplative tracks. i also like his girl tracks much more than his emo songs. jezebel, i luv u, girls with marga ' i am crap ' man, etc.

i think saying he sounds bad when he sounds 'like rap' is misleading, rap sounds like so much different stuff at this point and grime is (lets be real) just rap music. whats the difference? So I kind of feel like this "he needs to sound LESS like rap!" is a rhetorical dead end

"sound less american," more rhymes about pies or whatever, fine

his girl tracks arent his emo songs?

okay.

Just out of interest, anyone know how much of this album Dizzee produced himself? I listened to Boy In Da Corner again on the way into work and the production still sounds amazing - that plague of robotic locusts noise at the beginning of Stop Dat!

footsie produced 3 tracks. shy fx produced 1. dizzee did all the rest. although it says dizzee came up with the music and cage actually produced the tracks (although some tracks were produced by dizzee and cage or dizzee, cage and footsie together). there is nothing as good as the robotic locusts noise at the beginning of stop dat here (not that i can find anyway, but i do love the g funk+houston rap thing going on on the ugk track).

"his girl tracks arent his emo songs?"

i mean, theres overlap of course, but primarily, his emo songs are the ones where he slows down the tempo and you get the sense that if you were playing it on windows media player, the image being displayed would be one called 'reflective and introspective'. its like a little sign flashing that says 'oooh this is very deep and meaningful'. its like james blunt of grime type moments.

oh and futurecuts did the one with lilly allen.

the girl songs on m&e are all bouncy and happy

I know, it's weird. Usually when Dizzee meets girl, girl either gets a) pregnant, b) psycho or c) both.

Oh, I forgot e) the clap.

I also forgot d). That can be 'gold digging' then.

"the girl songs on m&e are all bouncy and happy"

as was girls with marga man on showtime, which incidentially was brilliant and should have been way more massiver than it was. i luv u is also not emo. jezebel isnt emo cos its not dizzee getting bluntian. and flex is kinda like girls from the last album ('i love it when you wind like that' needs to be omnipresent on dance radio shows and all car systems this year but prob wont).

('i love it when you wind like that' needs to be omnipresent on dance radio shows and all car systems this year but prob wont).

it was on my car systems for the past two days! "flex" is fantastic.

seriously, XL need to get agent x or someone to do some remixes of that. that might be too old school UKG sounding but itd still be good. they just need to get someone good making funky house type stuff to remix it and hey presto, you get dizzee a massive club hit that doesnt involve him getting all old school hip hop for once (it still gets my blood pressure going when people think fix up look sharp is his best song).

what a nice surprise. this is fucking brilliant.

that would be system, not systems. i'm no g, i only have one car.
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seriously, XL need to get agent x or someone to do some remixes

OTM. is there a 4x4 garage thread?

probably.

Actually I could totally see "Flex" having a second life as a electro-ish funky house tune a la "I See Girls" (did anyone ever notice that tune actually had Romeo from So Solid?!?)

This is a great album BTW.

Titchy I agree with you quite a bit on this thread, but no way is that Shy FX beat more lazy than most of contemporary jungle! Compare it to all the (still!) plodding 2-step beats and indeed their own prior pop singles and it's quite nifty/nimble. Funny how it occupies the same role as "Don't Mug Yourself" on the first Streets album. These should be mandatory inclusions on British rap albums.

One of the things that occured to me earlier this week is that the whole of Maths & English is very slightly retro in that it totally sounds like the British High Street c. 2000-2003. Of the terrifying Saturday night Croydon Town Centre pub variety. Virtually everything is a grimier take on just-out-of-fashion British chart dance music of the past few years. It's familiar enough to be full of potential hits but not so old as to sound self-consciously retro (Pussyhole possibly excepted).

Obviously Dizzee dominates everything because of the sheer force of his personality but I can't help but feel this is the direction pop-grime should have been going in all along, as opposed to trying for a shiny Kanye West sound a la Roll Deep etc.

Haha, back in March 2006 I said: Best case scenario - 45mins of hyperspeed pop grime a la Stand Up Tall or Fickle. It seems the way forward if he's going to go commercial and look to stay exciting.

Good to see he listened.

but.... there is nothing as diff yet still brilliantly poppy and feel good as stand up tall on here. that sounded like nothing else (except er obviously other youngsta stuff) whereas everything on here is basically dizzee taking existing styles and giving them a dizzee makeover.

OTM about croydon town centre though. this is basically like 'dizzee does every tv advertised urban/dance music comp of the last few years'.

i never noticed i see girls had romeo on it. but id like to see someone do a put your hands up for detroit type of remix or something like that. maybe the guys that did the beyonce deja vu house remix could do it (and then it would start to annoy me incredibly by being overplayed at the gym, the mark of every commercial breakthrough).

was that freemasons? they did the AMAZING commercial house rmx of 'ring the alarm'

i think so. i really liked how they made beyonce sound on deja vu though. gave her vocals a really urgent almost troubled quality.

i agree w/ tim that this album is pretty great

I actually like the d'n'b track!

i do still like this a lot (its great for working out to at the gym) but theres something about it that bothers me - there just isnt much of a lingering impression after its done.

its really fun and enjoyable (although it has a few not exactly weak, but slighly uninteresting moments - excuse me please and bubbles and maybe even paranoid) but theres nothing that really sits with you after its gone.

i mean, musically, and lyrically, i do remember quite a lot of the verses and various moments (unlike the wiley album) but its just a bit lightweight - not much to chew on really after its ended.

hope that makes sense.

pimp c is a total scene stealer on the ugk record

he is
so is bun b
i was almost prepared to write bun b off after the mere okayishness of trill but together theyre unbeatable, still
pimp c is so classic on the song with outkast

but in fairness dizzee doesnt get outshone - he totally holds his own, which is something i dont think you could say about too many guys

deej is the ugk yr fave track on the record then? that would be uninteresting.

personally i don't get this sudden tut-tutting for 'suk my dick', it's the best thing on it. the other happy fun tracks feel as subject to 5 hours of deep dizzee consideration as the emo ones. (i don't mean to say they come across laboured either tho mind, but still)

nah my favorite is 'da feeling'
the ugk track is great but by no means outstanding, not really the heart of the record or anything

xp what?!! dizzee gets totally boyed off on that song! nursery rhyme v doubletime = game over

Love "Suck My Dik".

There's not really that much emo on there is there? "World Outside" yeah. "Paranoid" seems strategic, like, "I can do a Wiley track better than Wiley" ("World Outside" is just a Wiley track). I like it.

(odd how when Dizzee does emo now he just sounds like Wiley biting Dizzee's emoness)

Someone upthread OTM about the yankee doodle dandy rip on "Suck My Dik".

not sure about the emoness/wiley thing at all... its just what dizzees been doing since BIDC.

i listened to BIDC at the weekend actually - im wondering if its actually a bit overrated.

yeah matt dc come collect your thread otm award, if only for being the only one to admit to the fun of sirens verse 3

I BREAK THE LAW I WILL NEVER CHANGE

drownedinsound didnt like that bit.

I became much more reconciled to that nu-metal dalliance when I confirmed it was an isolated incident!

I think I would be okay with just the guitars on that part, it's the guitars + megaphone vocals that get to me.

Bubbles and Flex are wicked songs

best rap album of the year i reckon.... def top 5 at least.

finally listened to most of it this morning but it sounds much weaker than the first two to me.

BIDC is kinda overrated if you ask me

RONG AGAIN

fookin brilliant record.

esp. surprised by all the love for 'suck my dik' - thought it was v poor/boring on first listen.

"Where's da G'a" and "Flex" are prolly my faves right now, "Da Feelin'" close behind.

dont like that one that much although its kinda fun in a juvenille way. but pussyole, wannabe, flex, wheres da gs = all classic. some of his best songs.

although its kinda fun in a juvenille way

exactly! It's like "Summertime" by Fresh Prince or somethin.

um yeah. exactly the same. hard to tell the two apart in fact.

you know what I mean.

i do i do ;)

more snoop and eazy e and dr dre than will smith/summertime though.

Titchy I'm still surprised that you're taking this line (including saying BIDC is a bit overrated!) but I do agree.

the line that its a good album? it is though! ill make a post maybe later about why i now think BIDC is a bit overrated despite its obvious moments of genius but i think this is overall, dizzees most enjoyable album. its also the most free of self consciousness i think hes ever been on an album. i only keep bumping the thread after i go back to M+E and feel excited after hearing 'i love it when you wind like thaaaaaaat' again. ;)

or maybe its not really good and ive just been brainwashed by reading too many of lex's posts.

Having listened to all three again in the last few weeks, Showtime is the particularly overrated one. The best moments are tremendous but the sag in quality in the middle is really apparent.

Titchy I guess I just thought that you'd be Boy in da Corner forever, death to all hip hop tinged follow-ups.

tim, theoretically i am, and in the case of most grime artists, i def am (that new kano mix cd was painfully dissapointing for example), but dizzee seems like he can pull it off somehow. its weird, cos whenever he freestyles on hip hop beats on radio, he sounds terrible. but here, he seemed to find a way to make it fit him better. shame there arent more grimier tracks like temptation though... (although even that is ruined by that arctic monkeys bit)

and yeah, showtime is really hard to listen to. it takes it out of you...

yes. This album puts it back in really effectively, tho. Dizzee is goddamn good.

Wow, I love this: "Temptation," "Suk My Dik," "World Outside," at least three others.

the radio version of pussyole is diff - new scratches, bassline and arrangement. they just played it on radio one.

And the word Pussyole removed, I assume?

yeah, that too

just has a meeow sound instead of the word

ok, not really, but i wish it did

Ha that would be awesome.

i might make that edit myself lol

apparently flex IS the next single!

this is pretty krunk

Looking forward to seeing him live again soon.

is there some kind of huge hit on this album?
i passed by mtv hits a few days ago and saw "dizzee rascal's hitlist".
weeeird.

Regular old MTV is pimping out The Gossip nonstop during their morning programming, so heavy MTV exposure doesn't necessarily correlate to mainstream success as much as it correlates to however much an act has impressed the MTV programming folks, whether it be through an internal champion or crafty A&R deals.

That Gossip (and possibly Dizzee) thing is part of an "MTV is music" promotion called 52/52; fifty-two "hawt" but intentionally diverse artists, doling out one per week with interviews/live shows/private show bumpers. They're also doing Flo Rida, Gnarls Barkley, Testament and Santogold.
That "internal champion/crafty a&R" is certainly the largest part of the selection process.

santogold blows.

Def Jux reissue doesn't have "Pussyole" on it.

LOSS

Vonus track "Driving With Nowhere To Go" is U&K.

Def Jux reissue doesn't have "Pussyole" on it.

Wha?

just read an interview with him on channel 4 teletext. "dance music was shit" before calvin harris' acceptable in the eighties came out apparently.

he's been talking such bullshit lately

'dance wiv me' is obv dreadful

It isn't.

it was more awful at glasto.

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I was just banging some "Pussy'ole" tonight.

hes on the cover of HHC this month with el-p. they must be a bit strapped for cover stars at the mo (its an AMERICAN re-release, and quite a few months old now!). sticking with hhc, i do like the mag a lot, but i dont get how dizzee is the only grime artist they feature regularly, esp when they could give some space to skepta or doogz or someone instead of all the no-mark uk hip hop names they seem to feature all the time.

WTF he is working with Armand Van Helden for the next album?! Jesus that could be amazing.

Ah, I see this is old news. Still, exciting.

nearly 10 years since AVH fell off tho?