There aren’t many artists who can claim a Mercury Prize, an MBE, and a criminal conviction on the same résumé — but…

Ask most people under 35 to name the first voice they heard on a grime track, and Dizzee Rascal comes up before…

Most people know the chorus of “Bonkers,” but the fuller story of the man behind it is harder to pin down. Dizzee…

Ask a British rap fan to name the record that put grime on the map, and most will land on the same…

Drive down a London street with any millennial who grew up on UK rap, and a Dizzee Rascal track will hit the…

Most people meet Dizzee Rascal twice: first as the teenage voice that made grime feel like the future, then as the festival…

Few British artists have crossed from underground grime to the top of the UK singles chart so completely, and fewer still have…

Dizzee Rascal’s story has always been one of sharp turns: from the council estates of East London to collecting the Mercury Prize…

Dizzee Rascal helped invent the sound of 2000s London, won the Mercury Prize at 19, and then spent a decade answering the…

Ask anyone who grew up in 2000s London about Dizzee Rascal and you’ll get a story — a first listen to Boy…

Even if you only know Dizzee Rascal from “Bonkers” or “Dance Wiv Me”, the story around him has moved well beyond festival…

Few teenage debuts have reshaped British music the way Boy in da Corner did. Dizzee Rascal — born Dylan Mills in east…

Ask most British music fans to name the first grime artist they ever heard, and the same name tends to surface: Dizzee…

James Cartwright spent his early career playing a trainee care worker on CBBC; two decades later, he is the actor behind Coronation…

Every time Quint leans against the wheel and starts in on the USS Indianapolis, it’s Robert Shaw doing the talking. Shaw was…

Few artists have treated a weather forecast as seriously as John Constable did. In the early 1820s he climbed Hampstead Heath with…