Dizzee Rascal

Ghetts: Conflict of Interest review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Big-label backing and unusual, beautiful arrangements should finally propel Ghetts, long a critic’s favourite, into the big time
Alexis Petridis
11, Feb, 2021 @1:32 PM

Runners and writers: who got what in the birthday honours list
Names from across the arts, sport, politics and science are among those recognised
Caroline Davies and Simon Murphy
09, Oct, 2020 @9:30 PM

J Hus, Stefflon Don and Dizzee Rascal: Rated awards celebrate black British music
J Hus won album of the year for Big Conspiracy while Dizzee Rascal took the legacy prize at the fifth annual GRM Daily awards
Laura Snapes
09, Sep, 2020 @7:15 PM

Ready, steady... oh: Olympics, Glastonbury and Euro 2020 stars on the summer we’ve lost
From the medallist to the festival star, what happens when your best-laid summer plans come undone? Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Harry Kane, Mabel and others share their might-have-beens
Joe Stone, Zoe Williams and Sam Wolfson
27, Jun, 2020 @8:00 AM

Adele, Keith Flint, Gil Scott-Heron and me: Richard Russell, the XL records Midas
He nurtured the Prodigy, signed the White Stripes – and launched Tottenham’s mega-selling superstar. And it all started with a novelty rave tune about a bouncer
Alexis Petridis
25, Mar, 2020 @1:00 PM

The 100 best albums of the 21st century
We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree
Ben Beaumont-Thomas (1-50); Laura Snapes and April Curtin (51-100)
13, Sep, 2019 @8:00 AM

The best (and worst) songs of the summer, from Rihanna to Las Ketchup
Every year has its anthem, be it Drake, Calvin Harris or Beyoncé, but which one is the best of the millennium so far?
Michael Cragg, Joel Golby, Issy Sampson and Sam Wolfson
15, Jun, 2019 @5:59 AM

Grime once again dominates Ivor Novello awards nominations
Politically charged work well represented but female songwriters miss out
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
24, Apr, 2019 @1:22 PM

Experience: I was a stadium-filling pop star for one night
It had started out as an ordinary week, and now I was about to open for Muse, Dizzee Rascal and Biffy Clyro
Polly Money
12, Apr, 2019 @9:00 AM

Poet in da Corner review – thrilling grime musical leaves you Dizzee
Debris Stevenson tells how grime became her salvation in a show that explores race, representation and authenticity
Arifa Akbar
26, Sep, 2018 @3:55 PM

D Double E, grime's nearly man: 'I haven’t been able to prove myself'
Skepta hailed him the ‘greatest grime MC of all time’ but Darren Dixon has struggled to break into the mainstream – can his solo debut album change that?
Dan Hancox
10, Sep, 2018 @9:27 AM

Every Mercury prize-winning album – ranked!
Following the announcement of this year’s nominees, we run the rule over the 26 albums that have earned the crown, from Klaxons and James Blake to M People and Talvin Singh
Dave Simpson
26, Jul, 2018 @10:45 AM
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