Dizzee Rascal Points Out How Shady The Music Industry Is

• 28th Nov 2008

Dizzee Rascal has revealed that he's very suspicious of the music industry, and has become more so since his Mercury win shot him to fame in 2003.

He told BBC 1Xtra: “Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face. It's a very shady industry, no matter how glitzy it looks. I still to this day don't really trust anyone”.

On the subject of his single, 'Dance Wiv Me', which was number one for four weeks in July, Dizzee said: “It got boring. I'm never going to lie. It got boring, 'Are we still number one?' Ahhh”.

Although he wasn't completely down on the experience. He added: “It was amazing, it was a blessing. There was no feeling like it. We had a lot of parties. It just raised the morale, it was really positive. I didn't actually think it was going to go to number one”.