undercurrent: “Hiphop is a moribund form, there's no escaping it. The omnipotence of glossed-up hiphop is a testament to the tungsten-carbide stomach of Kapital, able to digest anything and turn it into a procedural machine stamping out hollow gloss-encapsulated placebos. Hiphop is dead inside, but its shiny surface can be preserved indefinitely. Whilst over in the US proliferating crews shine up the surfaces, Dizzee faces the death of hiphop head-on. The mashed-up clunkatronic spasm of Dizzee is the sound of the meat inside the hollow shell rotting out. Paradoxically, after all the clinical gloss, it's like a breath of fresh air.”
undercurrent also links to an account of Dizzee Rascal upstaging David Blaine as the latter was being let down from his stunt in London (#26 on the list).
