Dizzee Rascal

Mercury Prize-winner and game-changing grime MC

As one of the UK’s most successful and influential rappers of all time, Dizzee Rascal is credited to bringing UK Grime to the masses during its peak in the mid-noughties. After his 2003 debut album Boy In Da Corner catapulted him to international stardom, he has since worked with some of the biggest artists around the world, including Calvin Harris, Arctic Monkeys, Shakira, Armand van Helden, Florence and the Machine, will.i.am and Robbie Williams.

He also has four UK No.1 hit singles to his name - ‘Dance Wiv Me’, ‘Bonkers’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘Dirtee Disco’- and six consecutive UK ‘Top 20’ albums - Showtime, Maths + English, Tongue ‘n’ Cheek, The Fifth, Raskit and most recently E3 AF in reference to the postcode of the area of East London he grew up in.