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March 3, 2005 at 9:52 am #1036257
An “ASP” baton is an extendable one like the old bill use. About £30-£50 no questions asked from “outdoor goods” supply stores (no, I haven’t got one, but I saw them on a website whilst looking for tents and gazebos…)
I dunno what he was playing at though – you play the fame game you take the consequences. You will make enemies as you become successful..; and I bet he doesn’t sleep easy at night so can well understand why he was tooled up …. OTOH when you make the sort of money he must be getting surely you’re better off paying a “close protection” bodyguard to look after you?
IME urban music artists who get nicked once too often are dropped like a hot potato if they are signed up to mainstream labels (doesn’t make them kids-TV friendly etc, can’t got to USA) – I’ve known a few over the years to be thrown on the scrap heap because of this (some have gone back to crime…)
Rapper Rascal arrested in London
Mercury Prize winner Dizzee Rascal has been arrested for allegedly carrying pepper spray, police have confirmed. The 20-year-old rapper was a passenger in a car stopped by police in east London on Wednesday.Dizzee Rascal, whose real name is Dylan Mills, was arrested along with the 34-year-old driver.
“They were both taken into custody at an east London police station and they were later released on bail to return on April 8,” said a police spokesman.
“The driver, a 34-year-old man, was subsequently arrested for being in possession of a section five firearm – pepper spray – and an offensive weapon, which was an ASP baton, and cannabis.
“A 20-year-old male passenger was also arrested for being in possession of pepper spray.”
Three other men in the car were searched and released.
US tour
Mr Mills found fame with his debut album Boy in Da Corner, which won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2003, becoming the first rapper to win the award.
On winning the award, he thanked his music teacher for inspiring him, rescuing him from a downward spiral that had seen him expelled from four schools.
Next he hopes to make his mark on US audiences, with a tour in April taking him to major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.
The rapper is due to perform in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 8 April, the day he has been told to report to a London police station to answer bail.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/4313817.stmPublished: 2005/03/03 08:36:57 GMT
© BBC MMV
March 3, 2005 at 5:47 pm #1064556General Lighting wrote:surely you’re better off paying a “close protection” bodyguard to look after you?“The driver, a 34-year-old man, was subsequently arrested for being in possession of a section five firearm – pepper spray – and an offensive weapon, which was an ASP baton, and cannabis.”
Well he sure sounds like a body guard to me, I’m sure holding the cannabis is in his contract too, although what the hell Dizzy’s doing with the pepper spray…….maybe he begged his guard to let him be “tooled up” so he gave him a can of pepper spray…….what a twat!! ?:::) )March 3, 2005 at 6:03 pm #1064550chargedrat wrote:Well he sure sounds like a body guard to me, I’m sure holding the cannabis is in his contract too, although what the hell Dizzy’s doing with the pepper spray…….maybe he begged his guard to let him be “tooled up” so he gave him a can of pepper spray…….what a twat!! ?:::) )I did wonder about this – but then again the weapons culture is so common in London these days its hard to say. OTOH why keep a dog and bark yourself?
sad thing is he goes on so much about “bettering himself through music” (and I thought he was smarter than so-solid crew types etc) and now fucks things up like that..TBH I don’t really care what happens to him, but what annoys me is kids will think its cool to carry stuff like pepper spray about because Dizzee Rascal does it…
March 4, 2005 at 9:40 am #1064557nah, Dizzie is a proper london skallywag. look at the video for “can i have a dream come truuuuuuuuuu”, and listen to the lyrics, its about how he used to be a thug when he was younger and now he’s gone clean. (I’m sure 2pac made plenty of records like that, and so did nas, and im sure ice cube) and the video has two black youths standing outside a shop beatin a police man up.
i think he’s just slightly cleaned up / covered up his nasty side so he sells more records to outer london kids who think he’s cool. maybe.
look at this video as well for london UK Hip Hop Culture. SAFE BLOOD.
http://www.itchfm.com/ in the video section, Klashnekoff – Murda.
i couldnt get a direct link to it.
March 4, 2005 at 11:04 am #1064552Anonymous
http://www.ninjatune.net/videos/ has got some amazing uk styles, from a distinctly less agro perspective….
long live ninja tune!
March 4, 2005 at 11:07 am #1064558General Lighting wrote:but what annoys me is kids will think its cool to carry stuff like pepper spray about because Dizzee Rascal does it…alot in london already do. get ya blades blad.
March 4, 2005 at 11:30 am #1064559USE wrote:http://www.ninjatune.net/videos/ has got some amazing uk styles, from a distinctly less agro perspective….long live ninja tune!
Great linK!
I love a bit of cold cut
Timber was a well good idea.
more beats pieces is my fav tune.U should do what my mate did phone ninjatunes and blag all the vids on VHS
he did buy a sweatshirt wich may of helped.March 4, 2005 at 11:40 am #1064553PaulM wrote:Great linK!
U should do what my mate did phone ninjatunes and blag all the vids on VHS
he did buy a sweatshirt wich may of helped.will have to give that a bash…pretty sure saying i vj will go down well with that lot..free advertising and that..dunno..
coldcut are superheros of audiovisual culture, although i do think that because theyre so heavy a lot of people avoid them. still, i’m well glad theyre doing what theyre doing.
other essential veiwing is saul williams “not in our name”, this guy is a don, he wrote “twice the first time” as well, one of my all time favorite hiphop tracks…genius.
March 4, 2005 at 11:44 am #1064551Andy_Aztek wrote:alot in london already do. get ya blades blad.aye, its what prompted me to put that post up about first aid and treatment from gas exposures!
March 4, 2005 at 12:31 pm #1064555USE wrote:other essential veiwing is saul williams .am i right in thinking ‘twice the first time is that track with a violin, beatboxing, saul and just one or two samples dropped in
pure, organic hip-hop at it’s finest
“not until you have heard rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip hop”
thanks for that link USE
i’d forgotten all about Ninja for a few months
way off topic… opps
March 4, 2005 at 12:42 pm #1064554globalloon wrote:am i right in thinking ‘twice the first time is that track with a violin, beatboxing, saul and just one or two samples dropped ini’d forgotten all about Ninja for a few months
way off topic… opps
yep, thats the track…absolute quality.
ninja are easy to forget, somehow, and easy to take for granted…they shouldn’t be, theyre such a vital part of british urban music not getting too gangsta.
i dont recon this is off topic, coz instead of wallowing in the shame of yet another peice of shite press damaging this music style, we are looking to where our hope for the style should lie.
i do rate dizzee rascal, although i havent really sat down by myself with his stuff, so i cant say owt about what his real message is…
was listening to braintax the other day..really took me away to a tripped out realm of rhymes, wicked stuff.
March 16, 2005 at 1:59 pm #1064548dizzy is a little bitch for having cs gas
March 16, 2005 at 2:02 pm #1064549globalloon wrote:am i right in thinking ‘twice the first time is that track with a violin, beatboxing, saul and just one or two samples dropped inpure, organic hip-hop at it’s finest
“not until you have heard rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip hop”
thanks for that link USE
i’d forgotten all about Ninja for a few months
way off topic… opps
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