Dizzee Rascal-the London King

Dizzee Rascal is from East Bow England where he grew up in a rough neighborhood. As a child he often got himself into trouble, stealing and robbing. He was also expelled from school. It wasn’t until a teacher introduced him into the music scene, did he start to rap. He style is very different than the ones we have come to know in North America. His music is a mixture if garage and hip hop, with a lot of samples from heavy metal, rock and guitar sound. The garage style is the most popular type of rap in the inner streets of UK. Dizzee raps about the things that go on around him every day. He was raised by a single mother and by having this experience he was able to produce one of his singles which was predominately underground. In one of his songs he talks about a young London girl who spent her life partying, doing drugs, and having sex with many men. Throughout the years she earned the title Jezebel, which means slut, whore and many other shameless names. I think this helps define how Dizzee is able to intertwine his culture with the hip hop culture because he is talking about real life things. Growing up in London, he observed what was going on and he took it to heart to tell a story about how life is there. Although he may be all the way in London, Dizzee does not escape the violence that sometime does come about with being a rapper or should I say just being successful overall. I believe that because of this violence many people may say he has street credibility because he endured the incident. This ties him into the hip hop subculture of violence, which again ties his culture with the big community of Hip Hop.