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 Read Quote
Grime 4 Corbyn? I just don’t know what I’m supposed to feel about that – does he even listen to grime? Dizzee Rascal Read Quote
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. Dizzee Rascal Read Quote
Some people will never let the grime thing go, but my fifth album is not meant to sound like my first album. Dizzee Rascal Read Quote
There’s a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don’t know. It’s very real. Dizzee Rascal Read Quote
I’m not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music. Dizzee Rascal Read Quote
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. Dizzee Rascal Read Quote
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. Dizzee Rascal Read Quote