Business Daily meets: Dizzee Rascal
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
From its emergence in London’s underground scene and pirate radios in the early 2000s, to becoming a major music genre, Grime has come a long way – contributing more than £2bn to the UK economy and creating opportunities to members of some of Britain’s most deprived communities.
Dylan Kwabela Mills - professionally known as Dizzee Rascal - is someone who has been at the centre of this genre from its inception, and who many credit for Grime’s exposure to pop culture.
Twenty years on, the electronic dance music, with rapid beats that critics described as the “soundtrack to knife crime”, is now critically acclaimed, and many of the pioneers who were teenagers at the time are now multi-millionaire business owners.
(Picture: Dylan Kwabela Mills, known as Dizzee Rascal. Credit: Getty Images)
Presented and produced by Peter Macjob
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:05.7 | It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. |
| 0:15.3 | Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.2 | Today on Business Daily, we're looking into the grind scene. |
| 0:31.0 | You're getting way too big for your boots. |
| 0:32.6 | You're never too big for the boot. |
| 0:34.0 | I got the big size toes in my feet. |
| 0:36.1 | Your face ain't big for my boots. |
| 0:45.6 | Just 20 years ago, it was the kind of music sold for five-pounder pop on London's Oxford Street or at the local high road. You never too big for the bill. |
| 0:47.1 | I got the big size toes in my feet. |
| 0:49.1 | Your face ain't big for my view. |
| 0:51.4 | Now it's gone from being labelled as the soundtrack to knife crime and antisocial behavior |
| 0:56.3 | to one of Britain's most commercially successful music genre, |
| 1:00.3 | contributing a whopping $2.5 billion to the UK economy. |
| 1:04.7 | What would we do? |
| 1:05.9 | Usually drink, usually dance, usually barble. |
| 1:08.5 | All I want to do Is tell you I love you |
| 1:11.6 | That's when I start promising the world to a brand new girl |
| 1:14.4 | I don't even know yet |
| 1:15.5 | Next to do she's wearing my Rolex |
| 1:17.2 | So how did the music |
| 1:18.7 | Whose fans could only access |
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