A biography for Dizzee Rascalhasn’t been written yet.
“I just go to the gym once every few weeks and go training once or twice a week. But it's all pretty random.”
“Grime 4 Corbyn? I just don't know what I'm supposed to feel about that - does he even listen to grime?”
“I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.”
“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.”
“My London is racy. Hyper. Unpredictable. Uncontrollable. Er. Intense.”
“When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.”
“I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.”
“I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.”
“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.”
“I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.”
“My fans are lunatics. I encourage mosh pits, I encourage lunacy, I make music to let go to.”
“I was a drum 'n' bass DJ at first but not any one of note.”
“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.”
“Even I find myself boring sometimes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you believe, you can achieve, innit.”