Dizzee Rascal: Boy In Da Corner

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then again, i flipped through the source in the grocery store yesterday and they devoted 18 pages to pharrell and naked-girlies-who-wouldnt-touch-his-tube-sock-wearin-ass-if-he-wasnt-famous in brazil or wherever, so who knows

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

vibe's probably a better bet than the source or xxl

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

pharrell really is the smartest man in showbiz but that doesnt mean i ever want to see him ever again

ever

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

I'm waiting to see if either side blinks and 50 Cent ends up on the cover. Right now he has/appears on three singles in the Rap top ten (which is not that different from the pop top ten), with another hovering just outside it.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know about anyone else in the UK but US hip hop as considerably paled in significance to me over the past 6 months or so.

So anyway, 'Brand New Day' let's talk about heart fuckingly awesome it is.

― ss, Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

i don't know about anyone else in the us but us hiphop has considerably paled in signifigance to me over the past 6 months or so.

is this fucking thing on slsk yet or what?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

nothing yet - the limeys are holding out

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

(wasnt ol fifty on the cover of the source a couple months back? i know there was a 'collected quotes' article, maybe i'm imagining his cover appearance.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

There's bits floating around.. some are under different titles. You might already know 'Brand New Day' as 'Looks Like I'm Losing It'. If not then feel free to pillage through my files.. username is 'seanfuck'. I can't stress enough how fucking perfect this song is. Stick it on yr media player of choise, hit repeat and prepare to copiously quam yr knickers.

― ss, Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

there may have been, though I do know he hasn't done any press for this album yet, due to the eminem feud. eminem's claim that '50's gonna be the biggest rapper and they're gonna get nothing' has held up so far.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

'Sitting Here' is now up..

― ss, Sunday, 8 June 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

'Round We Go'='One Big Cycle'

― ss, Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

ss, you are aware these aren't the proper versions, right? they're more like early lo-fi demos (or else they've been encoded from records carved from TEAK).

― Chris Houghton (chrish), Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

as i have commented before on another thread - brand new day IS morr music or aphex from about 96. dont know how dizzee arrived at these off kilter melodies and skrucnhy rhythms, but it totally sounds like he just riding some instrumental lali puni track.
presumably he hasnt been buying morr compilations though.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 9 June 2003 08:50 (twenty years ago) link

yeah chris but they'll do for us lowly laymen for now

― ss, Monday, 9 June 2003 12:33 (twenty years ago) link

re the Morr/AFX comment

do you know how happy it made me to see a TRANSMAT sticker on the record deck in Roll Deep's studio? Very.

oh and re:

>some from yourself or are you a different Martin?

>-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald...), June 7th, 2003.

Yeah i've covered Dizzee in Jockey Slut, Deuce, Mixmag and Hyperdub.
and i wrote his biog... he's amazing. bigup Dave Stelfox for pointing out how good it is that Dizzee's vulnerable as well as aggi, on record at least.

― martin (martin), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

So have "We Ain't Having It", "Vexed" and "Creeper", which are the only songs other than "ILU" I've heard, not made it on. Oh boy, am I looking forward to this.

― Nick H, Monday, 9 June 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

THESE WICKED FUCKED UP DEMON CHILDREN (who sound like the 4 y/o knife-murderer on "blue jam") WHO WAIL "I'M YOUR FITNESS INSTRUCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ON THE WILEY TRACK ("2 for").

Is that the 'Who do you think you are? You pushed me too far' one?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

Also, what's the "i ain't gonna lie / i ain't got a six pack / i got a bad temper and a baseball bat" one?

And is anyone else obsessed with Sharky's 'This Ain't a Game' yet?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

>So have "We Ain't Having It", "Vexed" and "Creeper", which are >the only songs other than "ILU" I've heard, not made it on. Oh >boy, am I looking forward to this.
>
>-- Nick H (nhill8...), June 9th, 2003.

Vexed is on the ILU 12"
Creeper is by Danny Weed and Cage, not Dizzee.

― martin (martin), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

keith, the "six pack/baseball bat" one is "we ain't havin it"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

OK Martin, maybe I'm wrong. Badly labelled MP3.

― Nick H, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I listened to "Creeper" again, and I'm positive Dizzee appears on it, because the MC who sounds most like him even says something about him. Unless of course the song I have isn't even "Creeper". then I look rather stupid.

― Nick H, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

Creeper is an 8 bar produced by Danny Weed. There is an mp3 of Dizzee rapping on it.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

That must be what I have. Cheers Keith.

― Nick H, Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

This is slowly trickling its way onto soulseek now. Get to it.

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

I'm gettin' it!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

Once I've finished downloading it I'm going to only share that album, so if anyone wants it, message me and I'll give you priority.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

there's a review of it in the new jockey slut,its album of the issue
they don't really situate it within any sort of scene at all,they don't mention dizzee's crew or the genre or whatever

― robin (robin), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link

OK, all the tracjs are up now, download away. But remember kids, buy the album!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, I'm right behind him

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:46 (twenty years ago) link

and now the server's down

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

'Stop Dat' is insane!

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:05 (twenty years ago) link

I got (most of) it from Blount last night (thanks man!) and this is a damn fine record. Only halfway thru but Fix Up Look Sharp and Hold Ya Mouf are fuckin great. The rare intersection of hype and goodness is very satisfying.

So was it up to the Streets to show the world that UK hiphop could be just as good as the US variety--and now Dizzee shows us that UK hiphop can beat US to a sad bloody pulp? Or is it just a really slow year for American hiphop?--it makes me sad when the most interesting US release I've heard this year has been Joe freakin' Budden.

― adam (adam), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

this has made my year

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

New, Jockey Slut: Album of the month is DIZZEE RASCAL - BOY IN DA CORNER.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

"Only a country as culturally diverse as Britain could have produced a sound this wild, this bizarre, this fresh."

Um, yeah.

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

I do like it lots.

― Ben Williams, Friday, 20 June 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

I like how the three celebrity reviewers at the end manage to throw in just about every possible reference except garage. Generally I approve of the 1xtra-style convergence of urban musics but I'm worried that it's main effect might be allowing people to conveniently gloss over the parts of urban they don't want to come to terms with.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

i promise that when i review this i will talk about garage a lot.

And if you hear a track as thrillingly edgy or fiercely funky as 'Fix Up, Look Sharp' this year, we'll eat our shoes.

haha billy squire to thread.

seriously, you can just hear the cultural cringe in those "celeb endorsements" at the bottom of the page

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

Next week, CoM will talk about the Rascal album in tandem with its long-lost bloodbrother from 1970...

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 20 June 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

After the Goldrush?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

Deja Vu?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

Trespass?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

lindisfarne's "fog on the tyne"

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

Next week, CoM will talk about the Rascal album in tandem with its long-lost bloodbrother from 1970

change that to 1991, MC BUZZ B - Words Escape Me !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

i don't quite know how to reconile this album with my distaste for mainstream u.s. hip-hop's recent swing back to the doomy, volksstomp club banger

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

in the world of lil jon/bonecrusher/"dark" luda, how can this album fail?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

the last track is totally the last track on metal box: vague light at the end of the tunnel, etc etc.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

'Vague light at the end of the tunnel': Original Pirate Material, Maxinquaye etc?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

save for "fix up" (which i find v amusing anyway), the tracks i've heard don't seem as single-mindedly bludgeoning as "pump it up" growl-hop or whatever's on the "cradle 2 the grave" ost. the next thing i slsk will prob prove me wrong.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

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