This is the first video from Dizzee Rascal's album, "Maths + English". This tune is where hip hop meets metal as Dizzee is on form here and puts most of the over-rated rappers to shame. Three minutes in, you can hear Korn's "Here To Stay" riff. Pretty awesome video too; one of Dizzee's best. I like how the fox hunt was used as a visual metaphor. Basically people who are chasing Dizzee are foxhunters and at the end of the video, they pick up the fur from Dizzee's coat like it's a fox. And the blood represents when a child gets their first kill they have their forehead marked with the blood of the animal they kill. Some good acting from Rascal as well.
I don't understand how people think this song glamourises mugging since it doesn't. It's about generations and how things won't change and about the Western world developing into a police state. If you watch the video, then you'll see Dizzee run past the same grafitii again and again, which reads "Only cowards steal from the poor".
Dizzee Rascal shows why he's one of the best rappers - not that that's saying much nowadays. He actually tells a story - like an old school rapper. It's yob-poetry. There's more intelligence in Dizzee's little finger than in he brains of all modern mainstream rap artists. What's Jay-Z rapping about these days? Fucking UMBRELLAS?!
