This is the best episode because you can clearly see and feel Mitch knows his history and was really there seeing everything. As a grime fan from then too it was a great time for uk music and mad to think artists struggled to break America then & the ones that did were seen as sellouts changing the music. Really it was the smart thing to do but we were all hooked on grime in the uk
Were from that era so definitely man! All that new era cap talk, msn, avirex, lot 29, nokia phones, schott jackets, evisu etc, blud those were the days man #1991baby
King Dizzee, my GOD, so Dizzee produced all those hits. He released those monster hits independently WOW. Iconic more than we knew. I am going to stream that new album. Congrats Dizzee.
When Dizzie says he was independent during the Dance with me and Bonkers era. At that time, he truly was the "Boy in the corner". Kano, JME, Chip, Dizzie, Skepta, and Wiley were the originals. Facts.
I remember seeing Dizzee open for The Streets in DC. Then I met him - in an empty ass bar St. Ex after the show, when he wasn't old enough to be there. What a time!
There has never been anything as grimey as when diz used to produce those mad beats.. big up spyro n that for all the oriental style beats that had there own vibe that u could listen to without mcs but raskit had somethin mad different, real dark choppy beats went so wellwith his voice
31:48 raskit aint lying, i went in there 2 years ago, its like another kick game but just in bethnal green. I actually need to go back there at some point. There’s something similar in harlesden also and shepherds bush market (uxbridge road). They’re everywhere really.
My respect levels for Dizzee just sky rocketed for mentioning Gambia in the Benachin(What Gambians and Senegalese call Jollof) talks. It originated in Senegal though, Jollof was made by the Wolof people it's literally in the name. Ghanaians and Nigerians try do the colonizer ting and act like they're the end all and be all smfh. + Gambia just won the last worldwide competition Shoutout Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cameroon as well
Dizzee’s smart man! Bonkers days was independent! He don’t get his shine still. The whole bm drama lowkey pushed him to comeback and go out strong i reckon
I remember watching him and nasty crew performing in Stratford Rex 2002, no one new how anyone looked thise days, these man were radio famous to most of us. None the less couole pple got stabbed that night , some things never change.
