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I actually really like DJ Assault - a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who's produced good music that's influenced me a bit.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Assault
Detroit
Ghetto
Good Music Me
Good Music
Influenced
Produced
Tech
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I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Hardcore
Challenge
Tune
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I'm not that guy in the suit, speaking the Queen's English. I don't need to be. I've done enough. I can go on 'Newsnight' as me.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Suit
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I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Bass
Garage
Pirate
Drum
Picked
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People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Classify
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Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Pushing
Music Myself Me
Chose
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I don't think I was ever really a normal kid. I always wanted to do it big, and so I was always on the lookout for strong people I could learn from.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Normal
Strong People
Lookout
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Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Genuine
Difference
Politicians
They Say
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In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.
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Blessing
Pursued
Subjects
Music Me Care
Option
Energies
In The End
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There's so much to London, so many different kinds of people and people are the key to life, but my favourite part? It's got to be Bow, where I come from.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Different Kinds
Life Where People
Bow
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There's a lot going on music-wise in L.A. It's a wicked place to wake up, there's sunshine, you go to the studio, see all these really talented producers.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Producers
Sunshine
Wake Up
Wicked
Talented
Studio
Wake
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Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to make me do that.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Different Sides
Sides
Life Society Always
Life Society Me
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The name Dirtee Stank came from a lyric I had when I was 17 or 16. Lyrical tank, like my name was Frank, going on dirty, going on stank. It sounded like a good name!
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Frank
Lyric
Tank
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If you are going to work, you might as well follow your heart, because nothing in life is easy and if it's going to be hard, it might as well be what you really want.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Follow Your Heart
Life Work Heart
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I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Boxing
Thai
Quite
Bit
Older
Surprised
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Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face.
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Council
One Minute
Face Me People
Estate
Sudden
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There's things that I say that people wouldn't say. And just putting across my vulnerability as a person in my music as well. A lot of people wouldn't do that, everyone wants to be hard.
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Vulnerability
Music People Person
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When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?' by Ludacris and 'Is That Yo Chick?' by Jay Z. That's my version of that track.
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Your Me Doing
Chick
Me Doing Your
Jay
Mix
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No U.K. rapper has been in my position; there are loads of big rappers like Tinie Tempah or Skepta, but no one has done what I have: had mainstream success with underground music and pop music.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Pop Music
Rappers
Underground
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When I was growing up, it was 'All Eyes On Me' by Tupac and 'Doggy Style' by Snoop Dogg. I've met Snoop and he's the best. They say you shouldn't meet your idol - that definitely doesn't apply to him.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Apply
Best Eyes Me
Snoop Dogg
Tupac
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Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all that. I've never turned up at a party just to be snapped. It's not my kind of thing.
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Instagram
Paper
Party
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For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do weights, but that can make you ill if you balance it with flying around and living like I do, so I narrowed it down.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Flying
Ill
Martial Arts
Weights
Martial
Twice A Week
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Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times. Like 'Dance Wiv Me' - those lyrics didn't start on that beat.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Lyrics
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When you're doing things like Glastonbury main stage, and there's 80,000 people and your hits are going off, it's at those moments you sit back and breathe and take it in, man, cos it might never happen again.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Breathe
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In each genre, I've been around the biggest. In pop I toured with Justin Timberlake, with reggae it was Sean Paul; I toured with Jay-Z and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's all an education for me, to see how they do it.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Chili
Justin
Reggae
Sean
Jay-Z
Justin Timberlake
Paul
Toured
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I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I like that you get perks sometimes. Sometimes people treat you better, but through that there's the opposite as well.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Perks
Sight
Music Me Better
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I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Lonely
Learnt
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Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Chat
Music Mind People
Loosely
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I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.
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Pretend
Glorifying
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I'm not gonna lie; I don't always like everything about Bow and I don't always like everyone in Bow and they don't always like me but on the whole I love where I come from. I'm proud of where I come from and I'm proud to represent that area.
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Love Always Where
Bow
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As a kid, I felt I had it bad - and people where I came from did - but if I'd been in a similar position in America, it could've been 10 times worse. We have the NHS. We don't have slums like I've seen in the Deep south, or shocking intolerance.
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Intolerance
Nhs
Shocking
Slums
Deep South
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I don't really class myself as a musician, I can make music but I'm not the greatest technically. There were other people who were technically better than me in school but I knew how I wanted to sound and all I needed was to work out how to do it.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Work Music Myself
Technically
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I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Keys
Nice
Play
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The world's a jungle in my eyes, innit? Everything's tribal. If you see someone who don't look like you - especially the colour of your skin - you're going to be suspicious, or not as welcoming or warming, innit? I've learned not to take it too personal.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Colour
Jungle
Suspicious
Eyes World Your
Eyes Look World
Tribal
Warming
Welcoming
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Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Spread
Options
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Every summer in my old area, Bow, these kids from across the road used to bring out quad bikes in the park. They let me have a go, and I don't know what was wrong with me, but I drove straight into a gate and fractured my big toe. I had this mad limp for ages.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Mad
Summer
Me Road Know
Across
Ages
Area
Bikes
Bow
Bring
Drove
Fractured
Gate
Limp
Park
Toe
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America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying to be refined and classy, and I think a lot of people in the urban scene in this country have had trouble accepting that.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Refined
Urban
Face Your People
Bolder
Hustler
Classy
Detail
Whereas
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When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Boxing
Chess
Grudge
Patient
Timing
Life Yourself Better
Beating
Life Better Yourself
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I see all that celebrity stuff now as whatever, man. What's more important is that everyday people are liking my music, it's got to that stage. I've worked really hard for a long time for it to come to this point, where I'm putting smiles on people's faces, and I'm loving it.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Everyday
Faces
Time Music Man
Everyday People
Liking
Smiles
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I think there's loads of undiagnosed depression where I came from. Post-traumatic stress disorder as well. Some of the things you see as a kid are like the things you'd expect to see in a war zone, but there's no one to talk to about it because running to a psychiatrist ain't the thing.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Disorder
Zone
War Zone
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The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
New York
Country
Real
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Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.
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Gun
Iron
Rose
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I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.
Dizzee Rascal / Songwriter
Morning
Stars
Two
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