Skills Develpoment - Journalism Development

Dizzie Rascal - Dylan Kwabena Mills

Dizzee Rascal is a british rapper, song writer and record producer who is now one of Britains most sucsessful rap artists of all time. He was born in London in 1985 and had a very challenging child hood, his father died when he was 5 and he was raised for most of his life by his African-born mother. He attended a series of schools in East London, excluded from four Secondary schools in four years, it was a teacher who first called him "Rascal", where his stage name originated from. In his fifth school he found his love for music, he only attended his music lessons and his talent in music was found. Aged 16, his mum bought him his first decks which lead to him becoming an ametur DJ were he performed on private radio stations, with his new found love he produced his first hit I Luv U which entered the UK Top 30 singles. This took Dylan Kwabena Mills (29) to new heights, he won The Widewinder Award for Best Newcomer MC in 2002 this quickly followed to his first and best album, Boy in da Corner in 2003 this garage/hip hop genre was a huge hit with his ever building fan club with such huge succesful singles such as Fix Up Look Sharp and his first single I Luv U. Dizzee was awarded the prestigious Mercury Prize for the best album of 2003 and a new star on the british music scene was born. The next 7 years for Dizzee Rascal have been a dream, three more albums; Showtime, Maths +English and Tongue 'n' Cheek leading to more awards and a larger fan base. Why is he so succesful then? The range of genres he covers from grime to electo - pop means that lots of different audiences are attracted by his music rather than staying with a niche audience which may lead to him not being as successful.His success has ment that was the sound of the british music scene in the noughties, due to his domination in album selling, singe selling and amazing live performances.