"People who, through the conditions they live in, might not be stable. I was new to the place.

On July 7 the same year, he had been stabbed six times in the Cypriot resort of Ayia Napa.Ask him now which was the more important event in his life, and he answers without hesitation.“Getting stabbed,” he says. “I was sitting there with the sea in front of me, just f***ing sitting there for hours just staring at the sea, part feeling sorry for myself, part feeling very, very angry, part feeling just quite confused,” Dizzee remembers.He listened to the haunting Streets track, Just Trying To Stay Positive, with its line ‘when you feel better tomorrow you’ll be a hero’. Just a few months prior to winning the U.K.'s prestigious Mercury Prize -- for Boy in da Corner, his 2003 debut album -- Dizzee Rascal's name was known only to his peers and devout followers of the garage/grime scene. It saw It was hot, it was s**t. Outside my window was like desert.”On the streets of Ayia Napa, an Ibiza-style playground for British MCs and the UK garage community, he had been chased by four people. But I don’t like to walk away. Wiley Dizzee Rascal Source(s): https://shrinkurl.im/a0JKW 0 0 0 Login to reply the answers Post tabbitha Lv 4 4 years ago i think of wiley's come back with somethin fairly vast! Belief.”The stabbing changed him in ways he is only just recognising. Every day I wake ready for work.”Six years later, and Dylan Mills, the African-born boy who grew up within the sound of Bow Bells, is living life to the full.

Dizzee Rascal's explanation of the name is, "The name came from one of the first lyrics I had: 'going on dirty/going on stank...' So I thought 'yeah, Dirtee Stank. “Some people thought it was a publicity stunt.”The experience lent a darker edge to his music that he is only just shedding.

But Dizzee is all about being true to where he comes from – a place he says he doesn’t often see truthfully represented.“Getting stabbed, it’s not glamorous,” he says, lifting the T-shirt under his hoodie to show thick scars on his chest, thigh and back. Dizzee Rascal) [Extended Mix] - Single “I was kind of sceptical about the Obama thing,” he says.“I was proud, yeah, because he’s a black man, but without sounding like a bighead, I’ve had my own achievements as a black man, so I’ve always believed black people are as capable of doing anything as well as anybody else.” Today, Mr Rascal – as Paxman rather sarcastically referred to him – has just flown into London from a secret gig in Dublin, ahead of a UK and then world tour that begins later this month. DirteeTV.com - The Mixtape EP, Vol. “My first one!”He’s not sure why he suddenly feels it’s a safe moment to talk about the attack that nearly killed him, something he has never really spoken about before. Part streetfighter, part Cheshire cat, the cockney hip hop poet is grinning from ear to ear.“I came back on a private jet,” he says, shrugging his wide shoulders inside his red hooded top. “I kept walking the hotel corridors. “I don’t think I really understood what the Mercury was,” he says.

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