Dizraeli - 'Bata Boy' (Apples and Snakes: Blackbox)

Dizraeli is a rapper, multi-instrumentalist and sometime singer taking hiphop to new terrains.
After six years pushing boundaries with his band Dizraeli & The Small Gods, winning the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, receiving regular radio play and spellbinding crowds at festivals across Europe, in September last year Dizraeli left the band to explore new possibilities.
The exploration took him to unexpected places: first, he composed the soundtrack for a new parallel-worlds comedy on E4 (Tripped); next he toured France with producer and turntablist DJ DownLow; then he spent a week in the refugee camp at Calais, giving workshops and listening to the migrants there. At the start of 2016, he travelled to Senegal to study West African music with an albino master, and in a remote fishing village covered in dust and music, he finished six new songs.
'Apples and Snakes: Blackbox' is a collaboration with Elstree University Technical College, working with their students and production team to create professional videos for UK spoken word poets.
Apples and Snakes is the leading organisation for performance poetry in England, with a national reputation for producing exciting and innovative participation and performance work in spoken word.
We work in partnership with creative individuals and organisations across the country to produce high quality artistic experiences - including work with, for and by young people - that raise the profile of spoken word and push the boundaries of the artform, artists and audiences. We offer professional development for artists including advice, training and performance opportunities at a local, national and international level, with a particular focus on nurturing emerging talent and championing marginalised and disenfranchised voices.
Find out more at www.applesandsnakes.org
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Crew:
Lucy Needham - Producer
Gilead Kentoe - Director
Hope Bryne - Assistant 1st AD
Jamine Hinshelwood - Cinematographer
Ty Yalkin - Camera Operator
Ben Luder - Camera Operator
Olivia Morter - Camera Operator
Andrew Blakemore - Camera Operator
Kelly Armstrong - Clapper Loader (Debris)
Sonni Mason - Clapper Loader (Dizreali)
Ellis Montgomery - Sound Operator
Chloe Boyce - Sound Assistant
Ralf Hersborg - BTS Footage/Photographer
Eleanor Lucas - Artist Management

[@VinoVenitas]

"I got a mate that says thats "gay"" I have been victim of that "slang" as well. This was an amazing piece and the way you performed it was on point. Loved your energy and passion. Well done.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

Thank god for people like Dizreali - the antidote to all the bullshit in gender politics. I'd love a pint and a chat with this dude one day!