- Label
- Search And Destroy
- Release date
- 5th October 2009
- Genre
- Hip-hop
- Buy this album
- Order CD
Bizzle keeping it real and still doing the bizznizz
Spawned by the same east London pirate radio and grime scene that birthed Dizzee Rascal, Lethal Bizzle appears far less likely than his rival to go supernova.
In stark contrast to the chart-topping pop beats of Dizzee’s newie Tongue N’Cheek, Bizzle’s third album finds him sticking firmly to the hardcore grime rhythms, filthy electro beats and air of neurotic menace that invariably define his output.
Go Hard is best when it is most extreme. The slowed-down vocal and attitudinal paranoia of Money Power Respect Fame are exhilarating, as is the bonkers ketamine logic of Skullz On My Hoodie, wherein Bizzle declares himself to be Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Kravitz and Barack Obama.
Mark Ronson’s parping brass section is drafted in on Lost My Mind and works surprisingly well although Rockstar, a Run DMC/Aerosmith-style mash-up with Gallows, is notably less successful. But Go Hard is brutal, brittle, never boring.
More to try:
Dizzee Rascal: Tongue N’Cheek
Tricky: Knowle West Boy
Tinchy Stryder: Catch 22
