The Queen of Colombia – better known by her GI Joe-villian-sounding stage name Shakira – has returned to the dance floor for a little Latin lovin’ on her new single, “Loca.” Enlisting one of the few European MCs our ears can bear, Dizzee Rascal, and taking her tunes back to her homegrown roots with a new bilingual album Sale el Sol, this middle-abed mamacita should have no problem picking up where she left off last year with She Wolf.
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As a native Brit & lover of Rap I feel I shouldnt like Dizzee and if you asked me before this song I’d say he was once a good MC but now a terrible sell-out, but every time i listen to him… god dammit he’s an entertaining listen(sometimes).
*Sigh*
If you’re feeling Dizzee’s sound but need a North American tint to get through a full song, peep this jam
*FRESH*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkdUoyFxAgU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkdUoyFxAgU
Guaranteed to enjoy.
Agreed with Drewbot. Dizzee and all of Uk hip hop and grime dun fell off. Dizzee’s first 2 albums were classic but since then euro synth pop has infected all things British and rap related.
That said i’d implore you to have a delve into UK Hip Hop, which is different to grime (of which dizzee was a pioneer) and more closely tied to old school boom bap. The likes of Klashnekoff, Foreign Beggars, Jehst and Yung’gun are worth checking out.
Even Grime wise, Ghetto and Kano are relatively palatable.
Yall are dumb Bashy Maxsta and hella peeps are dope and dizzee Heavy is GRIMEBITCH
Yeah, we repping UK Rap!? So you need GIGGS in there? He’s killing it out here…as he said himself:
‘If your talkin the ‘Ardest
Giggs betta pop up in your thoughts as an artist
Victor mate:
..easy there dismissing it all as ‘synth pop’!
In the UK, the House, the Hip Hop, the Soul, the R’n'B, the Reggae & Rock scenes cross over all the time, rubbin shoulders like a giant Notting Hill Carnival.
(and that’s how NEW sounds like Soul II Soul, The Prodigy, Massive Attack happened).
But the REAL Hip Hop scene in the US? Well the last time I looked,
• The Black Eyed Peas man! WhyWhyWhy??? Who’s buying it? How’s it happening?
• Kanye samples Daft Punk (and then does a full synth-based LP)
• Warren G (AND Too Short..?!) is on some hipster shit with Ke$ha. It’s Dirty and Nasty and it smells of cheese.
• Kelis fucked Hip Hop/R’n'B RIGHT off for a bit of trance-y Europop. Ew..
• FLO RIDA (Doesn’t really count I know..!) is on Guetta’s biggest hit ever
and, don’t forget: Diddy’s finally dropping his ‘Ibiza’ House LP with Felix Da Housecat involved. I heard he’s had it ready 10 years and didn’t dare release it!
So, lets get it balanced..? The REAL HIP-HOP isn’t being decided by Geography. UK grime acts (Roll Deep, Wylie, Skepta..) have just dropped the darkness and written a few choruses, they always had the skills anyway.
Now Dizzy’s getting grief for having a giggle with Shakira… this man is only reviving Hip-House… he got to Number 1 in UK charts 4 times in 1 year! and any of the older visitors on here will remember Hip House from the 80s I’m sure? Let’s see:
Jungle Brothers? Big Daddy Kane? Rob Base & E-Z Rock? & Roxanne Shante?
I ain’t mad at dizzee for this track(infact i think he came correct here), I’m mad at him for shit like “Holiday”. I’m dissapointed ‘cos he was once hardcore but not necissarily underground. Maybe his style just evolved and I wasn’t paying attention but he didn’t need to go as pop as he did. I wouldn’t mind if he came out like that(chipmunk, stryda, n-dubz) but to me now it comes across as kinda selling out.
To me he doesn’t seem so important to uk hip-hop at all, I’d rather put my money on Tinie Tmpah provided his album is any good.
Skinnyman for UK grime FTW