“Few rappers embody grime’s complex relationship with the mainstream as fully as Dizzee Rascal. His acclaimed debut album ‘Boy In Da Corner’ charted the poverty and paranoia of his adolescence on a council estate in east London, its claustrophobic beats tense and twitchy with frustration. Six years later, Dylan Mills took a decidedly poptastic turn with 2009’s buoyant ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’, an album on”
“With the grime revival in full swing, one of the genre’s elder statesmen returns with an album that’s torn between his UK roots and his affinity for American hip-hop.”
“Dizzee Rascal tries to reassert his place in the very genre he was instrumental in popularizing”
“The first half of Raskit is some of the most hard-nosed grime you'll hear all year, as well as some of Dizzee Rascal's strongest material since Boy in da Corner. Unfortunately, things go downhill fast shortly thereafter...”
