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Dizzee Rascal: Truthfully Born To Do It

Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 1 August 2008

DIZZEE RASCAL'S 'Dance Wiv Me', featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome, has sat at the top of the UK singles chart for the past four Sundays. It is the smash of the summer, an immediately catchy pop-rap record that rides a retro beat and delivers rhymes purely associated with getting behind a young lady's "backbone". Pulling, the art of, in a nutshell.

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