Dizzee Rascal – RASKIT UK Tour
DIZZEE RASCAL
NEW ALBUM RASKIT OUT JULY 21
NEW TRACK ‘SPACE’ OUT NOW
“Aint’ no point in playing it safe – gotta know your role better state your case”
Dizzee Rascal – ‘Space’
RASKIT HEADLINE UK TOUR ANNOUNCED
Last week the mysterious CCTV video that for the past week had been streaming live at 727548.co.uk revealed the return of the multi-platinum-selling, multiple-award winning hip hop star Dizzee Rascal. Holed up in a bunker in Bow, east London, Dizzee was seen writing down what turns out to be the tracklisting for his forthcoming new album, RASKIT, before debuting a snip of the video for his new track ‘Space,’ released in full today and available to stream and download now. RASKIT is released 21 July via Dirtee Stank Recordings / Island Records, and is available to pre-order now.
RASKIT, Dizzee’s sixth album and first in four years, returns the compliment of Drake’s recent grime-flavoured mixtape – and with interest. It teams precision-tooled beats from a stellar array of US producers (Valentino Khan, Cardo and Paul Salva among them) with the sound of Britain’s finest MC – bar none, in a field of his own, champion of a league of one – “rapping my arse off”. The result is a spiraling sub-bass vortex of introspective jeep-beats which takes the man Jeremy Paxman called Mr Rascal right back to his roots, but with a hip-hop twist Jay-Z or E40 would be proud of.
Watch ‘Space’
Stream / download ‘Space’: https://DizzeeRascal.lnk.to/Space
Pre-order RASKIT: https://DizzeeRascal.lnk.to/Raskit
“The idea of trying to be my 17 year old self again just because everyone thinks grime’s landed in their lap this week didn’t satisfy me”, Dizzee explains. “I wanted to use what I’ve learned to make the best rap album I could, with no hands in the air moments, just using as much English slang as I could over the best beats I could find”. major
Following the release or RASKIT, Dizzee Rascal will head out on a tour of the UK this October. Tickets go on general sale 9am Friday 23 June.
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RASKIT UK tour
MON 02 OCT LIVERPOOL O2 ACADEMY
TUE 03 OCT GLASGOW O2 ACADEMY
THU 05 OCT NEWCASTLE O2 ACADEMY
FRI 06 OCT SHEFFIELD O2 ACADEMY
SAT 07 OCT LEEDS O2 ACADEMY
MON 09 OCT NORWICH, UEA
THU 12 OCT LONDON O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
FRI 13 OCT CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE
SAT 14 OCT MANCHESTER ACADEMY
MON 16 OCT BRISTOL O2 ACADEMY
TUE 17 OCT NOTTINGHAM ROCK CITY
THU 19 OCT SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION
FRI 20 OCT BIRMINGHAM O2 ACADEMY
SAT 21 OCT BRIGHTON DOME
RASKIT tracklist
01. Focus
02. Wot U Gonna Do?
03. Space
04. I Ain’t Even Gonna Lie
05. The Other Side
06. Make It Last
07. Ghost
08. Business Man
09. Bop N’ Keep It Dippin’
10. She Knows What She Wants
11. Dummy
12. Everything Must Go
13. Slow Your Roll
14. Sick A Dis
15. The Way I Am
16. Man Of The Hour
RASKIT is released 21 July via Dirtee Stank Recordings / Island Records
Pre-order RASKIT: https://DizzeeRascal.lnk.to/Raskit