2003's Boy In Da Corner - a brilliant, wailing headache of an album - was greeted with critical hysteria, a Mercury Prize and limited sales.
Showtime, released a year later, was greeted with a shrug from the public. What can Dizzee do now to arrest the decline?

23 Year Old Dylan Mills, returns with his new album 'Maths & English'.

It begins with 'World Outside', an uplifting “open your mind” message that should hit all the listener's cringe buttons - but with Dizzee rapping over the sound of knives being sharpened, coughing and swirling keyboards, he carries it off easily.

'Pussyole' (supposedly aimed at Dizzee's former pal Wiley) takes the over-used, clichéd sample from Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's 'It Takes Two' and twists it into a magnificent song that would damage the charts, were it not for a truly awesome amount of bad language.

'Suk My D**k' sees Dizzee’s first attempt at singing.  He's no good but he takes on the task with such relish that it is impossible not to smile. Similarly on 'Where's Da Gs?'  probably only Dizzee would include the line "Liar, liar, pants on fire" during a swear-filled dis of a lesser rapper.

The Shy FX-produced 'Da Feelin' has an unoriginal drum‘n’bass beat and a lyric about how nice summer is. And yet, despite itself, it's a winning slice of sunshine.

Add cameos from Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner a nd Lily Allen, a classic single ('Sirens') and Dizzee's wit and brilliant delivery, and you have a sensational record.

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