Has anyone in the US heard of the British singer Dizzee Rascal?

Who the hell is Dizzee Rascal?

I have never heard of him.

I have never heard of him. But I don’t listen to the radio.

Never heard of him.

No I have never heard of him- thanks for posting the links.

We Yanks have always loved Brit music since the Beatles so I think he has a chance in the US.

I thought he was a yank , lol on me then again his music is balls .
not saying american music is balls (tho the majority is ), just dizzeeeeeee or whatever his name is .

No, but his name really cracked me up!!!

Yes. I like Roots Manuva better.

Yes, I have heard of him, I actually meet him at Coachelle Music Fest in 2004. He signed my shirt. Nice Chap.

Funny side note, the group of friends I was with at the time tried to see if he wanted to get high with them. He said, his manager told him to lay off the stuff. It was pretty funny.

Yeah, maybe like 6 years ago. He’s ok

Yes, I’ve heard of Dizzee Rascal. I actually found out who he was through Fixed by Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip. (The back track is from a Dizzee Rascal song called “Fix Up, Look Sharp.”)

Oh, shit. I do know of Dizzie Rascal. How unbelievably rude of me, I’m sorry.

Apologies all around.

@Allie sweet, I love Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip, do you know Thou Shalt always Kill ?

@RareDenver I do! I’ve got the Angles album. Listening to it now actually. Tommy C just played. GA for knowing Dan Le Sac/Scroobius Pip.

Yeah, he’s a “grime” MC. As others have mentioned, “Fix up, Look sharp” is probably his best known track.

The great thing about grime is that when you remove all the vocals, sometimes you have a passable dubstep track ;-)

No he won’t make it. I’ve heard of him since 06. I really can appreciate him. Although he’s not technically a singer, he’s a rapper correct? The reasons he wouldn’t make it here is the USA because struggle here, like true American struggle usually arrives from the Ghetto. I’m from the ghetto, but I’m hopefully going to make it out, so I know what I’m talking about when I reference the term ghetto. Honestly, ghetto people don’t have much hope and are satisfied collectively with their liquor stores and Wal-Mart. That’s the easy living. So when one of them makes it in the music business, they who made it, become heroes, and people here really dig that, they really relate to it. I think because of Dizzee Rascals thick accent it wouldn’t pass a board of record label tycoons. I think he could attract the hipster crowd, but that’s it, I honestly don’t think Black America could take a black British rapper seriously, not yet at least. Arctic Monkeys, who are white, are just a speck in the indie rock world in U.S.A. Again I think it’s the thick accent true English singing. Americans are used to British people singing the American way, an example would be like the Beatles, they have no accent while singing, that’s why in my opinion they did much better in the U.S.A. than in England itself, which is quite strange since they are English themselves. Well statistics and facts is what I’m basing this off. I’d like to hear your opinion on why you think Dizzee Rascal should make it in America?

@dreamwolf I thought he could make it because he brings a sense of fun back to the genre that I haven’t really seen since the days of De La Soul, a Tribe Called Quest etc and I think when things are bleak in the world people often cope by escapism into entertainment. The bleak late seventies may have given rise to punk but also it’s polar opposite in Disco. The recession of the early nineties gave us grunge but also an explosive rave scene.

@RareDenver Yeah, you know, people are inspired by certain, feel and vibes. And that’s directly related to the types of aura their dna gives off. We may go through our lives with different music tastes, in different steps as well, depending on how it was introduced to us, or how we came to discover it. But it will always relate back to the overall feel and vibe. And Dizzee Rascal in America, I’m not too sure it would work out. Fortunately, America isn’t where you make it, its always the fans you’ve touched that matter in the end and I’m sure Dizzee will eventually become a legend in the hip-hop realm.