There aren’t many artists who can claim to have changed British music before turning 20, but Dizzee Rascal did exactly that. Boy…

Most people met Dizzee Rascal in 2003, when a 19-year-old from east London walked off with the Mercury Prize for a debut…

Nobody had heard a London teenager quite like this before. When Dizzee Rascal’s debut album Boy in Da Corner won the 2003…

When a teenager from Bow, east London, reshaped British music with a debut album recorded on a laptop, nobody guessed the career…

Ask anyone who watched UK music in 2003 where grime began and the answer usually comes back to one name: Dizzee Rascal,…

At 19, Dizzee Rascal won the Mercury Prize and defined grime; the two decades since have been a harder path of pop…

Dizzee Rascal’s public story has always run on two tracks: the Bow-raised MC who turned grime into a Mercury Prize-winning mainstream force,…

Most people can hum the hook of “Bonkers” without knowing the man behind it. The voice belongs to Dylan Kwabena Mills, the…

Most British kids have used the word “bonkers” without a second thought; far fewer know it was a Bow-born grime MC who…

There aren’t many artists who go from a council estate in Bow to performing at the London Olympics opening ceremony, but Dizzee…

Few artists carry two such different reputations at once: Dizzee Rascal, the Bow-born rapper whose early records helped define British grime, and…

Ask anyone who paid attention to British music in the early 2000s to name the sound of the streets, and Dizzee Rascal’s…

Anyone who followed UK rap in the 2000s has a Dizzee Rascal story — a first listen to “Boy in da Corner”,…

Few artists can claim to have defined a genre before turning 20, but Dizzee Rascal did exactly that with Boy in da…

Dizzee Rascal is a name that carries two very different stories: the grime pioneer who rewrote British music from his bedroom in…

Ask a British music fan to name the first grime act they ever heard, and Dizzee Rascal comes up more often than…