Business Daily meets: Dizzee Rascal
The Grime music pioneer on how the genre became a billion dollar industry
Business Daily · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
From its emergence in London’s underground scene and pirate radios in the early 2000s, to becoming a major music genre, Grime has come a long way – contributing more than £2bn to the UK economy and creating opportunities to members of some of Britain’s most deprived communities.
Dylan Kwabela Mills - professionally known as Dizzee Rascal - is someone who has been at the centre of this genre from its inception, and who many credit for Grime’s exposure to pop culture.
Twenty years on, the electronic dance music, with rapid beats that critics described as the “soundtrack to knife crime”, is now critically acclaimed, and many of the pioneers who were teenagers at the time are now multi-millionaire business owners.
(Picture: Dylan Kwabela Mills, known as Dizzee Rascal. Credit: Getty Images)
Presented and produced by Peter Macjob