Grime artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Dizzee Rascal, N-Dubz, Lady Sovereign, Sway DaSafo, Kano, Hadouken!, The Streets, Professor Green, Tinie Tempah, Lowkey, Wiley, Tinchy Stryder, Foreign Beggars, Roll Deep, Example, Chipmunk, Lethal Bizzle, Giggs, Devlin, Wretch 32, Bashy, Ghetts, Micachu, Ashley Walters, Shystie, Skepta, JME, DaVinChe, Nemesis & Arrogance, Boy Better Know, Guvna B, Kasha, Akala, More Fire Crew, Toddla T, GoldieLocks, Mz Bratt, Envy, Durrty Goodz, Plastician, Crazy Titch, MRK1, Nadia Oh, Newham Generals, Jstarh, Producers with Computers, K.I.G, NLS Crew, K Koke, Leo the Lion, Jammer, Nine High, Virus Syndicate. Excerpt: Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 1 October 1985), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English rapper, songwriter and record producer. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout", his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the last going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units. Mills' father died when he was young, and he was raised in Bow, in the East End of London, for most of his life in a single-parent family by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says: "I had issues as a kid. I was violent and disruptive. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out, always fighting to keep me in the school system". He attended a series of schools in East London, expelled from four secondary schools in four years - it was a teacher who first called him "Rascal". Cagey about exactly what his youthful "madnesses" entailed, in early interviews he mentioned fighting with teachers, stealing cars and robbing pizza delivery men. In the fifth school, Langdon Park in Poplar, he was excluded from most classes except music. He also used to attend YATI (Young Actors Theatre Islington) He began making music on the school's computer, encouraged by a music teacher, Mr Smith, and during the summer holidays attended a music workshop organised by Tower Hamlets Summer University of which he is now a patron. His mother bought him his first turntables. He was childhood friends with Nigerian footballer Danny Shittu when growing up, whom Mills described as 'like a big brother'. Mills supports West Ham United. Dizzee Rascal once told author Ben Thompson in an interview with the Sunday's Observer magazine that "everything I von Source: Wikipedia