Dizzee Rascal on Growing up in the Projects & Raw Gun Culture in the U.K.
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2016
- Growing up in East London, Dizzee Rascal, recollects his nomad-like upbringing in government housing before settling down in the Bow district. Similar to some Americans raised in section 8 housing, drugs and violence were a common occurrence. He tells DJ Vlad, "There's a real gun culture in the U.K., just for those who don't know." He explained, "It's very raw." Although not all U.K. police carry firearms compared to the United States police force, the 31-year-old rapper clarified that there's also a limited amount of guns obtained by English citizens because the right to bear arms is not a staple in their culture due to some unfortunate incidents. He said, "They're not as gun crazy there in general because it's not apart of that-you guys have it apart of the Amendment, so it's looked down upon."
Watch the full interview above. 
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We don't call it projects, we call it council flats.
+0Moreno0 for real, or the hood
keon williams
preferably Endz.
+0Moreno0 bits,zones,manor alsorts
Definitely Ends, flats and Estates down in Hackney
Lyon Hart
Definitely bits.
Big up Dizzee & Vlad Tv. Hope to see more UK Artists on the channel
+GRIMEREPORTTV What you saying Lordie? lool
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Yes lordie man likeeeeeee
Yes lordie ya get me
"Did you ever run into Slim Jesus in the UK projects?" -Vlad
😂😂😂😂😂
+HappyHustler bitch
Loool
+HappyHustler You can think the hoods in Uk sweet if you want. I'm not from there and know you wouldn't last out there clown lol
louie phresh Lol you must be new here. He's not making fun of the UK, just Slim Jesus
Note to Americans: College is not the same as university in the UK
It's similar to vocational community college lol
+Stewie Hitler nah its not, its the last 2 years of 'high school'
radiacto it's more like community college, he's right, its considered further education, GCSEs are equivalent to a HS diploma
+MoMoneyMoProblems Basically it's where you go between the ages of 16 and 18 (unless you missed any years)
+MoMoneyMoProblems college in the is basically the last two years of high school. school is split up from 11-16 then 16-18 years old
How can you be 17 and make an album as influential as Boy in Da Corner
Damn straight
+James Kolawole Because he's a fucking genius. No other way around it.
+James Kolawole when u mix ghanaian and nigerian blood u get super sayan....that's how
+audacity true. Nas made Illmatic at 19 years old, arguably one of the greatest and most influential hip hop albums of all time
+herman diaz he made boy in the corner whilst at school and he produced it himself fuck outta here yanks
Dizzee is fuckin' HUGE in the U.K....
meh
+moefromscene he was..
No
he's still big, his music dropped off tho
+Paul noneofyabusiness are you dumb he's a fuking legend
One of the greatest!! Big up Dizzee Rascal.
Big up big up
Let's not make it a competition in the comment section about which side is this, or which side is that. We both have music artists from each side that we all love. There are many music artists from the USA that are loved in the UK, just like there are many music artists from the UK that are loved here in the USA. I got love for Dizzee Rascal, Ed Sheeran, Lily Allen, Marsha Ambrosius, and many more UK artists. As far as Grime goes, hopefully more of those artists will become known over here, because Dizzee Rascal has been known here for about a decade. From the USA I send my respects.
positive vibes
ss140 I do the best I can. Thank you!
👊
Ed ward Much respect!
***** Likewise bro!
when he says he grew up in a council estate, picture high rise housing projects. despite the sound of it, it ain't nuthin nice.
Nelson Mandela house 😂
+Mike Middlename
You think council estate sounds nice?
***** It might to an American ear.
+MrVersatilemind That's in Hackney
i want a bunce. you know, bunsen burner, nice little earner...
Good to see the uk getting some recognition
I Love your videos bruv! Keep them rolling! Subscribed a few weeks ago.
U.K reppin 💯 LDN, England 💷🇬🇧 salute Dizzee 👋🏿 keepin it real as always...
1:01 _"Projects in London"_ Sounds so weird hearing that as a Londoner myself. I'm used to hearing "Council estates".
Trust me. Very weird
+eon001 I think he was just tryna make it relatable to people in the US watching. it sounds super strange.
+Suli Breaks I know what he was doing. It just made me chuckle. "I live a few blocks away from Hackney yo" I still don't even know how you measure a "block" lol :)
He did elaborate.
+eon001 Council flats to be exact.
Guidline for schools in Uk
Primary School: 5 - 11
Secondary School: 11 - 16
College: 16 - 18
University: 18 +
If you're talking PHYSICAL schools: Infant school 4‐7. Junior school 7‐11. If you're talking primary EDUCATION, its 4‐11. 16‐18 is likely a continuation of Secondary school if you're taking traditional subjects like maths, English, chemistry, etc, with views to going to university. Otherwise, you can do these same traditional subjects at a college but mainly colleges cater for other types of non traditional courses more suited to your interests/abilities such as Information Technology, building industry, etc. Students generally take the college route if they intend to go into the world of work rather than further study. The opposite of the US.
College could be 18+ as well
Dizzee looks like he moisturizes with vaseline
+SKEE *Starts crying the minute she sees you, because you've got a face like a dehydrated stone, that's what the creams for.
Boy in Da Corner is still the GOAT grime album
+Ian Carter Easily.
Showtime is up there too
+Ian Carter IM just sitting here. damn.
+Ian Carter For sure man! Boy In Da Corner is the benchmark in Grime.
+Ian Carter Best grime album of all time and always will be. Its that good its impossible to be topped.
His first album has so many bangers.
+Celina Smith. it gave birth to street ratz.
+0Moreno0 it got him out the hood though.
Celina Smith. But it also influenced youths to violence.
Thanks to Funky and Afro Music, the crime rate slowed down.
+0Moreno0 very true. Funky progressed into straight house music and everyone mellowed. Either that or the rats are all locked up.
"You never see a real gun inna ya life" 😂😂😂 who remembers those words from Mega Man to Dizzee Rascal in the Asher D vs Dizzee Rascal on Choice FM on The Commander B show 😂😂😂😂😂
Good Looking on This Interview Vlad. Been a Fan of Dizzee Rascal for YRS. Keep the Good Interviews Coming.
boy in the corner is one of my favorite albums... definitely hoping you got more dizzee interviews dropping
"I Luv U" was my shit, actually all of that album was dope af
Can we get a skepta interview next if he's ever in the states
Word up
he's in Texas for a show
Vlad a real nigga for this. You Americans pay attention
We already know about Dizzee Rascal. He's not new to us. We like him over here.
+i music So far Dizzee Rascal is the only Grime artist that has made any noise over here. Hopefully now others will start to get noticed here in the USA.
***** Skepta is tight and has an underground following here, but he's not yet known to most over here. So far Dizzee Rascal is the only Grime artist that's widely known over here. He's been on television, radio over here and has toured all over our country. If Grime does start to gain traction here, it'll be because he Dizzee Rascal opened that door.
I do. I'm a huge fan of this. Dude is sick!
+Slim Jesus Dad #DrillTime #BasedGod you are the definition of soft look at your name
it's not the projects over here it's called an estate
Or a shit hole
***** damn reppin that east oakland like lil b Respek
+JOHN GOTTI FUCK! Oakland
yes man bout time...get Skepta,bugzy,jme all the guys on shout from Scotland get the guys on!
Fuck Bugzy😂😂
+Shaquille Joseph yes g
+Daniel Joyce shut up bugzy can spit n I'm a chip fan...talent is talent you mugs
+MacL Mokkit man never asked you about Chip, I don't rate Bugzy his hype died out quicktime 😂 FYI Chip is miles ahead of Bugzy.
+Shaquille Joseph I know chip is better I'm not zipped up the back you idiot
You need big narstie on here trust
Base Defense League
Yes. Winning.😆
Real Talk
+King Oxly no
I fucking love the UK rap scene
big up
Not the biggest fan of Dizzie, but it is great hearing a guy who is so British get interviewed on here. "Bits and bobs.." HAHA yes geezer.
You're hot, are you British?
+Scopps94 That's not me. That's Adrianne Ho. I'm a British bloke. Sorry LOL.
+SkratchMyItch lol ur funny
SkratchMyItch -___- oh
+SkratchMyItch 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Boy in Da Corner, best grime album of all time and guess what.. He was only 17 when he made the album and nowadays your grime artists cant even make an album even if their life depends on it
first interesting interview to me in n a while
Most of the handguns you find on the street in the UK are old makarovs, tokarevs and older glock models fro Eastern Europe. Converted blank firing guns from the 90s are popular too.
most are old guns thats right and thats why kids are blowing fingers off
Just for the record "college" in the U.K isn't university.
+Canadian Badman Alot of countries associate college with uni. As far as I know only UK separate those two establishments
EDIT: and even then, people get mixed up.
+the greatest In Aus, college is high school.
keep these vids coming sharpish, raskit is a legend over here, u silly yanks don't know
MURICA
He look like offset from migos
HIW
+Ice Cream LOL i never noticed until you mentioned it.
O shit lowkey he do
+Ice Cream Offset looks like Dizzee
+Ice Cream Like if Offset gain a bit of weight and got a haircut...right!
DAAAAMN, VLAD!! BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THOSE HOT INTERVIEWS!!
such a don...just wanna say dizzees beats on boy in da corner have never really been topped for me. every single one is a banger
Dizzee!!!! My g 👊 always been a huge fan of this man. One of the best MC's from the UK, up there with kano wiley ghetts
Finally a good interveiw
Salute!
IMO the best grime album everyone should listen to once is - Dizzee Rascal: Boy in da Corner.
Great grime singles off the album: Just a Rascal and Stop Dat
Man like Rascal! Legend!!!
I'd say about 98% of people in London have never seen a real gun in there life.
+mike joyce Bullshit there's plenty of areas in London that have a relatively high gun crime levels (compared to europe) American rappers have gotten their shit robbed in London many times because they were too gassed and thought London didn't have rough areas.
Go Peckham South London n U will realise just how stupid u sound
It's funny how some people in the UK get offended when you say it's not that bad where there from.
mike joyce it's because you ain't been here a day in ya life in the more dangerous parts of England for u to Sit behind a keyboard in America n tell me about my country, Yeah in General UK is nice but it has its crazy places especially in London
Uchiha Gilberto It's really not that bad, there where only 58 murders by gun crime last year in the UK, which has a Population of 65 million. Some of the smallest city's in the USA alone have a higher gun crime rate then the whole of the UK, you should be happy that you live in a safe place top playing kid.
large up Dizzee always!
Everyone wants their home town to be hard, because they think it makes them hard by association.
.
Realist shit I've hear in a long time on these fucking RUclips comments
+RHYS PEREGRINE your postcode don't make you a gangster, you're not bad your area is
+RHYS PEREGRINE i always found that so weird,what sort of actually matured mentally,man,needs other people to think hes hard? lol
never got it,man-children
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Ayyyy. Shout out to dizzee for putting us on the map
MORE!
Man like Dizz', UK OG.
I been a fan of Dizzee for years. He's a legend over here! Great guy to! Raskit!!!
one of the best ...standard !!
Dizzies music video for I don't need a reason has to be up there with the best music videos out there
Big up Dizzee from Bow.
I just wanna see his whole interview .
Shoutout to London! I grew up in Ilford and Abbeywood from the ages of 1 to 8. I plan to move back to London in 4 years or so for a year to experience living there as an adult.
brookyln dready
Yeah, I know. It always has been, that's why I only plan to live there for 1 year.
*****
But you guys on avg pay much higher taxes and get lower wages, even with the conversion rates. London's expensive for everybody's that not rich.
Proper legend, one of the best MC's of all time, US or UK.
Yes Dizzee!!!!
Big up Raskit, Grime Scene Legend
Dizzee Repping For Us And Keeping It 100!!! #TeamUK
Grime music from the UK is raw as fuck. Check out "Artillery" by Ghetts or "Bow E3" by Wiley - two of my personal favourites.
Artillery is hard 💯 they should get the whole back catalogue of ghetts,devlin n them
Vlad you need to pay attention to these uk artists they are fire and try get more interviews with them
Gilly, dubz, page, propane, timbar, giggs, kyza, ghetts, youngs teflon, blade brown, Morrison, Klashnekoff, skinnyman, Chester p, MorrishDelta7, Don strapzy, kraze24, mega&mayhem s.a.s, bigz, haze, logic (from peoples army) English frank, mic righteous, jack jones, ard ads n sho shallow, benny banks, joe black, cee major, devlin, scorcher, wretch32, chip, stormzy, dvs, G-frsh, fix dot em, Buck, j spades, margz, pakman, potter payper, BigNarstie, sincere&markhenry, skeme&bigp, youngsta/yungmeth we got too many sick spitters here that goes unnoticed 🇬🇧
+Lyon Hart yung meth?
+Lyon Hart take this L for not saying nines or skrapz smh
defo giggs he got a bet after all Lol
Then after that he can round up some cricket players for an interview. Lmao
A decent interviewee. Finally.
big up the OG Dizzee
i gotta try that persil pouch lol
For such a huge artist, Dizzee is one of the most straight talking down to earth guys you can get. He doesn't play up to anything, he just tells it how it is with no pretences.
big up dizzle. repping london .
Dizzee the great🙏🏼💥
Big Up Dizzee Rascal. Real Legend Living Legend
Legend...hold tight!!!
was just watching that dream video a few days ago. i miss London yo!
Romario3000 Where you at now man?
+Mattoafc 789 Moved to Florida when I was 10 been here since man.
Big up Dizzie! You should get Wiley, Kano or D Double E on the show too fam.
Over here in London our equivalent to projects are estates (council estates). We don't really have hoods we call it endz, we have shit areas but they're not on the scale as the hoods in America from what I've seen when I go to the US, because even the shittest areas in London still only minutes/seconds away from richer, middle classed areas. Like I witnessed large areas in the US that are fully black, but even the blackest areas in London are still filled with a lot of Asians and Whites because there's just not as many of us blacks here as there are over there.
With the guns over here because the laws are so strict a lot of people don't just carry them as openly as in the states. There are a fair amount of guns on the streets but people have them stashed somewhere to bring out when needed. Obviously there are some serious roadmen out there who are exceptions to the norm who always stay strapped.
***** then you are nuts if you think London is worse.You come here with that mentality you will go back to where ever you from in a body bag.We have strict gun laws but that Does not mean u won't get shot and killed.Other cities have strict gun laws so you will defintely die with that outlook.
+E Haynes but in London everywhere cans be 'endz'. And you encounter roadmen that will stab you with ease. Getting shot is much less likely. I'm nt scared of getting shot in London per say, I'm scared of getting stabbed rt. And it can happen in any part of the city.
ThePrimebrook you can get stabbed,shot or cut in the major cities here too.You are a fool if you think that you are not scared of getting shot.I rather and I have taken my chance with all three and ill tell you, guns are worse.Knives you have to be up on me.You will never get that close to me.With guns, you don't have to be close.Im talking from experience.Which I can tell that you don't have by your last comment.That's the other problem, ppl see ny and they swear its all lights and signs.That's Times Square but most of N.Y. has what you guys call,"endz".You can even get it in Times Square.There has been ppl shot and killed in Times Square too in front of the cops. Don't come here with that mentality, I'm telling you for your own good.
I've been to NY several times never seen anything bad happen. Been to Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens ain't never seen anything bad go down. Seen a lot of shit go down in London tho even central.
jagheterjonteh what year was this? What part? How long?You know you stood in the tourist areas and acting hard,lol.
Yes VLAD finally! Dizzee is a Legend
Yes rusta! Glad to see Dizzee on VladTV
Wouldn't mind a garage/ dnb set from Dizzie see what where hes at
Making beats on the 3310 ringtone maker haha
Sick to see Dizzee on Vlad tv!
I'm from London, we call 'The Projects' in London the blocks or the estate or the ends not council flats, come on dizzie!!
The legend!
Music Department in Redbridge College talk like he did suttin there! I thought he would have completed his course, I didn't either. Used to just Shutdown Studio with Riddims, Zooted!
Persil pouch. Took me back that
Fun fact, Chris Rock said Boy In Da Corner is one of his favourite albums
The Persil Pouch!!
I can hear the sirens coming!!!!
"We only needed one school shooting" sly diss
I fort I was the only one day clocked it
When I was station in England I couldn't get into style I do know he's had a few songs I think the one wit Lilly Allen
Man I got to get to the UK
ayyyyy forest gate mad ting
I luv you is a fucking ill tune
Man took it back to the persil pouch lol
This guy is one of my role models I love him :)
Boy in da corner, what an album . That album put UK rap/grime on the map and made American rappers realise we got some serious rappers in the UK . Wiley , JME , Kano , Tinchy Strider . The list goes on .
tinchy XD
Lol replace Tinchy Stryder with Devlin
+*RH93* good shout there . I forgot about Devlin , I haven't herd anything from him in a strong minute .
big ups dnb
Boy in the Corner, Home Sweet Home & Ghetto Gospel = The Grime Bible!
3 of the best albums/tapes in the scene hands down freedom of speech too
Jerome Mick '2000 & Life was a sperm bank!' - Ghetts
E3 bow my postcode big up
rickflose big up tower hamlets
Persil pouch!!! Hahahahahahahahah that's so real, lol
This dude is DOOOOOPE!!!!!!
WOW!!! I fucks wit his music heavy. Very original talented guy. This is too sick!!
do wiley next
+Captain Planet Wiley cant go to America. Never been able to get a visa due to a drug related crime
referral madness Yeah i cant remember the interview but its from when he was doing the ascent. He said it had something to do with weed.
RASKITTTTTTTTTT vlad you did good
Such a humble guy big raskit
Dizzie is a proper geezer man.
Dizzee after watching this video I got dragged up the only difference was instead of trying to make music I went and listen to it old school everything, now it's old school but back then it was the newest,hottest shit around, but that another story, as they say haha. But before I go respect to Dizzee for still keeping it real👍❤️🏴