April 19, 2004
Dizzy and The Duchess.
Caught someone reading this in the park out of the corner of my eye, and it was so irresistable I went and bought a copy of The Daily Mail. I don't buy it usually, honest guv!
The Duchess says:
"It is for this reason that we need role models such as Dizze Rascal, the rap star, whose success from humble beginnings is to be so admired - as are the teachers who who encouraged him along the way."
(removes plum from mouth)
Well it was only one teacher who stuck by Dizzy wasn't it:
Mr Tim Smith formerly of Langdon Park, who deuce magazine quite cheekily interviewed last September. Tim was taught harmony by Andrew Lloyd Webber's father.
Dizzy said of him rather nicely:
"Special thanx to Mr. Smith, da best music teacher Langdon Park ever let go (you fools). I'll never forget da way you kept faith in me, even when things looked grim."
On the 55 bus last week I was sitting amid a bunch of really rowdy kids. They were talking about all the MCs. One was at school with Nasty's Armour. Another was explaining that Wiley, D Double and Doogz (I think it was those three, I wasn't taking notes at the time...) were all excellent, nearly professional quality sportsmen. Reminds me of that "Headmaster's Log" joke which usually comes with funny snapshots of a kid becoming scruffier and scruffier:
1) Year One: Good at sport.
2) Year Two: Likes music.
3) Year Three: Needs surveillance.
Did anyone catch Doogz's awesome righteous Grime track "Back to Skool" ("Stop acting the fool and go back to skool")? Love the Grime MC as old testament prophet/font of wisdom that one also gets in Riko's "The Chosen One."
Posted by Woebot at April 19, 2004 03:43 PM