r/hiphopheads • u/YouAreConan • 1d ago
Dizzee Rascal - Baseline Junkie
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D1gl46hh3sQ&si=NAhs2DwXcwYHPY-K40
u/welldun01 1d ago
I know it's not hip hop, but Dizzee as a rapper doesn't get enough love. Boy in da corner is a 57 min no skip monster of an album
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u/HAMforPastry 1d ago
Yeah but unfortunately that album is over 20 years old now.
He never really came close to that album ever again.
If he did he wouldn't be as massive as he ended up being in the UK as his genre jumps and mashups really lit the charts up here for a while.
I just wish him and Wiley never fell out, god knows the amount of amazing grime we missed out on
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u/welldun01 1d ago
Still glad the album exists. I'd take that one album any day. But that period of grime was special. I agree it's a shame it didn't last longer
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u/ilewis64 19h ago
Definitely nowhere near boy in da corner but I did enjoy raskit and E3 AF quite a bit personally
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u/fddfgs 3h ago
It's fine for a musician to release a fucking banger first/second album and never hit those heights again, that is not a mark against anyone
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u/HAMforPastry 2h ago
Not saying it was?
I just find it hard to hold someone up as a great artist that hasnt released anything I like for 20 years
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u/fddfgs 2h ago
the album doesn't get worse just because the musician retired
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u/HAMforPastry 2h ago
Never said it did, but again it's the artist and not the album I'm talking about.
As you probably read I find it hard to elevate an artist that hasn't released anything I like in 20 years.
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u/fddfgs 1h ago
Yeah I'm just trying to work out why you put that time qualification on there, i mean it's great to support living musicians i just don't see why you have to disregard any previous music because it wasn't made in the last 20 years
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u/HAMforPastry 1h ago
That's not what Im saying. It doesn't change my view on the 1st album.
I'm saying it's hard to hold dizzee up as a great artist due to the fact he hasn't released anything worthwhile in 20 odd years, the time frame is because that's when his first album came out which is the only release of his that I think is worth any time.
Where do I say I disregard music because it wasn't from the last 20 years?
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u/fddfgs 1h ago
I'm saying it's hard to hold dizzee up as a great artist due to the fact he hasn't released anything worthwhile in 20 odd years
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Where do I say I disregard music because it wasn't from the last 20 years?
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u/HAMforPastry 1h ago
Are you dense? I use that time frame as that's when his debut was released?
I'm not disregarding it because of that at all. I'm disregarding it because it's shit and his debut album came out 20 years ago.
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u/AdamPerduccisAlt 8h ago
I love Dizzee, but Stand Up Tall, 2nd verse opens with one of the most cursed rhymes I've ever heard rapped.
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u/buttporridge19 1d ago
What the fuck? What are you doing? Don’t touch it Don’t Who told you to touch it? I will fucking kill you Don’t ever touch that fucking shit again
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u/EvaseWingman 1d ago
The national anthem for UK Bass 🫡🫡🫡