Dizzee Rascal wants us to know that he is not a ‘sell out’, and has dismissed claims that his new single ‘Dirtee Disco’ is mainstream cheesy trash.
He disclosed to the ridiculous Daily Star that,
“People say I’m selling out but it doesn’t get to me anymore. It depends on what people mean by selling out, and who’s saying it.
“Some people think it’s morally wrong of me to not ‘keep it real’ but a lot of the time this is coming from drug dealers and robbers. Talk about swings and roundabouts.
“Does keeping it real mean I have to stay underground, playing s**t raves and chasing promoters for my money, when I can do a big pop show where they like me, look after me and pay me well?”
“People say I’m selling out but it doesn’t get to me anymore. It depends on what people mean by selling out, and who’s saying it.
“Some people think it’s morally wrong of me to not ‘keep it real’ but a lot of the time this is coming from drug dealers and robbers. Talk about swings and roundabouts.
“Does keeping it real mean I have to stay underground, playing s**t raves and chasing promoters for my money, when I can do a big pop show where they like me, look after me and pay me well?”
I bet years from now Dizzee will listen to Dirtee Disco and cringe with embarrassment.
But hey whatever makes you happy Dizzie and pays the bills.
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I don’t mind him giving folks “Dirtee Disco” as long as for every Dirtee Disco there’s a “heavy” B-Side LOL.
P.S If I was like at a wedding party and the D.J threw on “Dirtee Disco” I wouldn’t be mad LOL i would have some fun disco, disco, disco, discoooooo! hhaha!
I haven’t heard dd, but what is selling out? The grime scene is a very self absorbed scene- who listen to it, makes it, buys it etc, is all a small circle( in music buying figures), look at where the other people who came up with Dizee are. At the end of the day artists evolve and try different genres/sounds but why is it always a problem when the artist is black?
Everybody has to eat and the “urban” urgh to the word music scene in the UK is not self sustaining. Plus i don’t know who is crowing about selling out now, your 5 years too late.
I listened to dizee in my early teens when he was just coming up so i suppose i’m partial to him, even though i can’t say i have thoroughly listened to his latest endeavours as much.
Selling out is making music for money, not the love. Making music that you would never be a fan of, or fully migrating to a genre because you know it will put money in your pocket. At least Dizzee (kinda) admits he has actually sold out, the rest of the UK artists still seem to think they’re making grime! Dizzee IMO has the right to sell out now, or try something new, its not like he hasn’t released credible grime and succeeded with that.
Cheesy trash ???? damn ! that’s bold yo.
I bet in a few years he doesn’t look back and cringe, he’ll be looking back laughing, counting the money it made him. Just like I’m sure Simon Cowell doesn’t cringe that he once dressed up in a dog suit, signed Robson and Jerome and continues to make watered down TV programmes to promote a brand of music that sells to the kids.
I’m not mad and Dizee or the, because I don’t listen to the radio or pay any attention to the charts because that for me isn’t the type of music I’m into, the charts lost all meaning with the advent of digital downloads being counted. The UK ‘urban’ (hate that term also but for want of a better word) scene in the main, has caught onto a formula of pop music that sells (ie poor rapping or attempted singing over dance beats) and promote the hell out of it via twitter,etc in order to get it to chart, then bang on about this whole ‘Team UK’ thing like they’ve made it! If they’re happy and they’re making money then fine, let’s see how many are still doing it in 5 years (reality show apperances as contestants don’t count!!)
Well let us at least look at where he has come from and make a comparison:
And now some of his recent stuff:
Something definitely has changed, his music has become softer but what do we expect when you get signed to a major. Look at what happened to Ms Dynamite:
From:
To:
Even though both of these tunes were good, its just the fact that her style was softened, from fast chatting(her original image) to singing(company image). Getting signed to a major is like going into the army, your image is torn down and you are remoulded into the label’s image.
Dizee Rascal is no sell out.
This would suggest that his music at some point was somehow meaningful once upon a time.
To even position that he somehow made music that would be looked to as somehow classic or detrimental to the anals of musical history inspiring generations to come is amusing.
Dizee is and has always been a UK pop star…
Dizzee Rascal’s latest album is released independently through his own label Dirtee Stank he made the decision to change his sound though he still does a harder dubstep sound on a few b-sides
he’s not signed to a major. His contract with XL Recordings is through. I give to him for playing the commercial game smartly
he already said he’s going for a more poppy sound. 4 number ones and a platinum album later I guess he’s doing well for himself
can’t be mad at that lol.
Reclaimin’
I hear what you are saying as I’m not into grime myself, I’m just looking at it from how the average grime man on the street would see it from his/her perspective.