Last night was Dizzee Rascal's sold out London show of his debut album, Boy In Da Corner – the seminal grime album for which he received the prestigious Mercury Award in 2003. It was the album that brought grime to the masses. After performing it in full in New York in May, Red Bull Music Academy and Dizzee Rascal took it to East London, Dizzee's home turf. The show, part of Red Bull Music Academy's UK tour, and in which Dizzee performed the whole album, in order, from start to finish, drew out a huge VIP crowd including FKA Twigs,, D Double E, Katy B and Lily Allen. We caught up with the man himself before the show to talk all things grime: How does it feel to be performing your debut album again for the first time in thirteen years?
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The good thing is that maybe half of the songs haven't even been performed yet, so this is the first time. However, I've still been performing for 13 years, so it's not like I'm not used to it. A beat's a beat at the end of the day, even if my voice has changed since back then.
Why did you perform it over in New York first? We were going back and forth with venues. And then we couldn't get the license with one because it was between estates. So I spoke to my manager Cage and I was driving through the Blackwall tunnel coming into East and he said there's this venue, and I said yo I'm around here now so I'll go and check it out. I came up, parked round the back and said to the staff I'm thinking of playing here.
I wanted to because I'm from round here, innit – from Bow. Bow, Stratford – it's all the same.
Originally we were going to do in Bow, but this is just as good. They had a basketball set up, and I thought, rah this is nice. Other than the London Arena over on the Isle of Dogs I hadn't seen anything like it. It was a brand new set up. Why did you move to America? Cause' I could.
LA is nice and sunny. There are studios there. It wasn't about being in America to make American music or to advance my sound. What do you miss the most about London?
How come you dip in and out of grime these days? I never stopped making grime.
I make music when I feel like it and how I feel like at the time. Remember I'm from an era where it wasn't even called grime. That all came a little bit before I got my first proper record deal and went on TV with my first proper single 'I Luv U'. I was just making beats.
Listen to my first, second and third albums – I never called it grime. Wiley decided to call what he was making, his garage music, Eski, but I was already making that. Then he decided to make his music a bit different to what I was making.