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Imagine if I showed you 1 day, I was leavin' da hood
Wud you call me a sell out, wud you say it's all good?
Wud you follow if you cud? Or wud you just tell me, get da hell out?
And imagine if I showed you dat I'd found another way
Of gettin' dough wiv out doin' dirt
Let's blurt, wud you love me 4 givin' you sum hope?
Or resent me 'coz your pride got hurt?
Imagine if we never grew up on a council estate
An' was country manor raised, wiv a spoon in our mouth
Wud we still be makin' fuss about da East an da South?
Wud we shiver at da robbery's, murder an' da crack?
An thank God dat we didn't have 2 live like dat
Just an image on da TV as were comfortably sat
Sippin' wine room lit by da summer sunshine
Not a worry in da world as we cash will E chat?
Oblivious 2 how we wud be livin' on da flip side
No experience, not a clue about a ruff ride
No harassment, no boy dem on our back side

Dat'd b amazin' still
But I no you wonder, wud it make you any less real?
Wat's da current spot your standin' in, offerin'
If you had a better offer, wud you go 4 da kill?
Snap out of your day dream, how do you feel?
Does it all seem worthwhile 4 ya?
Try an put it in perspective
Retrospective of your profile an' your honor
Do you wanna hang about or are you a goner?
Come along fink fast, decision time
You've been livin' in da grime, don't you wanna climb?
Da ladder of life, da wall of enlightenment
Or are you lookin' 4 da hype an excitement
'Coz dere's so much drama in da LDN,
It's kinda hard tryin' 2 find legal money 2 spend
Generation, genocide look possible
Da rate at which we drew up 4 da sken
An pretend, dat we don't no who da real enemy is
Who shud we hold responsible, instead we offend
A couple square meters of pavement in da endz
Wat wud we achieve, my friends?

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Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born November 1, 1985), is a grime solo artist, formerly a Roll Deep crew member, who emerged from the UK Garage music scene. His music was a blend of garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga, with some more eclectic samples.

Dizzee began MCing on pirate radio and at raves at fifteen, but since his mainstream success he has distanced himself from the fledgling scene. Rascal grew up in the East End of London in south Bow in a council estate, raised by his single mother, a Ghanaian immigrant. Little is known about his father, though it is thought that he died when Mills was two. He attributes his musical development to a school teacher who allowed him to skip regular classes and spend time working on music on the school computers.

His music is an eclectic mixture of garage and hip-hop beats with an extremely broad palette of influences, ranging from metal guitars to found sounds, drill and bass synth lines, eclectic samples and even Japanese court music. His vocal performance is also distinctive, he uses a fast version of rapping (known as 'spitting') which blends elements from garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga.

Dizzee Rascal has numerous rivals within the Grime scene, mainly from the Bow, East London area. A notable rival of Dizzee Rascal is Crazy Titch who produced and recorded a diss called "Just An Arsehole" which used the backing track of Dizzee's record of "Jus A Rascal".

Dizzee Rascal has had international endorsements deals with urban brand Ecko and designed his own shoe with Nike. He has also worked with cross genre artist, Beck, on a remix of the song Hell Yes.

He released his first album in 2003, which was called Boy in da Corner. His second album Showtime was then later released in 2004. His third effort, Maths and English was released in 2007. He experienced commercial success in 2008 when Dance Wiv Me reached the number one spot in the UK charts.

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