Dizzee Rascal: 'I Was Just Being Cheeky'
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 9 June 2007
TOP OF the world, that's how Dizzee Rascal feels. Early sales of his new album Maths and English indicate a top-10 hit. "It's a couple of hundred behind Marilyn Manson and Paul McCartney, so I'm holding my own," he says, cheerfully. The east London rapper is in A-list company.
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