Boy In Da Corner Tracklist
Often compared to the impact of legendary Hip-Hop artists, such as N.W.A, and referred to as the UK’s “Illmatic”, a reference to the critically acclaimed Nas album, Boy In Da Corner is perhaps the most influential and significant grime album of all time.
Quite the feat when you consider it was released when Dizzee was merely 18 years old, and was largely self produced. Not only that, but the album was the first of Grime to hit the mainstream, and was the first to result in a Mercury Prize for Dizzee.
Grime at the time was a fresh genre. So new that no one even knew what to call it, with various names such as “Eskibeat”, “Sublow” and the now accepted “Grime” floating around.
Grime was a development out of UK Dance music, most notably UK Garage, rather than Hip-Hop as is often claimed. Grime took a more darker, and harder to dance to, take on the Garage sound which had dominated in the years prior.
“Boy In Da Corner” Q&A
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Was the album really made on a PlayStation?
Whilst this is a common rumour, it is false:
Logic, most of the time. There was that whole rumor about using a Playstation and all that, but naw. Both albums were done in a studio on Logic.
