Lethal Bizzle - Back To Bizznizz Review

Once, there was indie and there was rap and never the twain shall meet. Despite indie-dance's best efforts and Franz Ferdinand's stated manifesto to 'make guitar music that girls dance to', arguably the most two popular genres of music over the last few years have never been easy bedfellows....full text In the year that should have seen grime breaking through into its imperial phase of mainstream massive album sales, it seems to have faltered. Wiley's album, although well received by critics, is said to be his last - the scene Godfather tiring of constantly having to look over his shoulder. Dizzee Rascal, easily one of the best rappers this country has ever produced, had his first hiccough with third LP "Maths + English", which saw him reinvented as an East London Jay-Z, with patchy results. Now it's the turn of the third of the triumvirate of grime titans, Lethal Bizzle, who seems to be the powerhouse capable of pushing the genre forward....full text Maxwell Ansah certainly knows the value of networking. The Walthamstow rapper better known as Lethal Bizzle has seen his horizons reach way beyond local gang feuds. He now shares bills with performers from the furious Gallow to the amiable Jack Penate and his music has been labelled “grindie”, a supposed meeting of grime and indie. Kate Nash and Babyshambles even appear on his new album, marking it for ever as something made in 2007....full text ethal Bizzle is the third East London grime hero to trample across 2007’s soundscape and also the third to leave punters exhilarated, cheered and menaced.

Only a few weeks back Bow’s Dizzee Rascal and his eski-beat progenitor Wiley cracked out their own LPs of formidable speaker pressure.

Now the MC that made it out of More Fire Crew as far as performing on stage with Pete Doherty and Kate Moss in front of a mud-drenched Glastonbury in June brings his own talents to the table for his second album....full text