The Rascal's Making Serious Moves

The video for Dizzee's new single Sirens. The video's superb: clean, crisp and innovative. The track's pretty good too. It's interesting to see Dizzee pursue the rap rock direction. What with the new LP featuring guest spots with Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys Alex Turner, and the nod to rap rock, Dizzee has his sights fixed firmly on the mainstream. And good luck to him.
Could we be about to witness the first no compromise, black British rapper crossing into the mainstream?? I hope so and if anyone's capable of doing it, it's Dizzee. I was lucky enough to see him play at Exit in Serbia last July (he was followed on the main stage by Morrissey, that's some twisted programming). And to be frank, the audience didn't know his music. So Dizzee switched the instrumentals to rock, and it went down a storm.
Dizzee freestyled over We Will Rock You, worked the crowd with call and response, then slipped in Jezebel and I Luv U, before switching back to rapping over rock (Sweet Child Of Mine, Limp Bizkit, White Stripes Seven Nation Army, though I'm not sure I can forgive him bouncing around to Let Me Entertain You, there are some limits). The energy in much of this music, is very similar to grime - you shock out, big time.
Anyway, the point being that I didn't expect Dizzee's versatility and ability to rap over rock would end up on his next LP. But it has. The boy in da corner has done good.