Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

It's tough to say which part of "Stop Dat" is more brutal to your ears: the bleak, growling bass-and-bleeps or Dizzee's yelping rhymes about housing-estate life, which slice like box cutters. The signature tracks on Boy in Da Corner are "I Luv U" and "Wot U On": Dizzee used a PlayStation 2 to make some of the martial beats in the former, and the slutbot vocals, 2D melodies and hardcore techno pound of "Wot" sound like nothing so much as the inside of a bloody video game. Just as N.W.A once captured the realities of the hood, Dizzee evokes twenty-first-century street life -- the real, the virtual and the violent. If you want to hear where hip-hop is at, step up and be the 9 millionth satisfied Eminem customer. But if you want a vision of the future of hip-hop and techno, get this record.