It hasn't been easy to sell out in this century, but Dizzee Rascal pulled it off. Dizzee first came to international attention at the age of 16 when he started making berserk low-tech grime beats on his PlayStation and then rapping over those beats. Those tracks and the following album Boy In Da Corner made Dizzee a critical and cool-kid sensation, a fascinating new beast of an artist who stood, for many of us, as the personification of a rowdy and chaotic scene across the Atlantic. But he didn't become a UK superstar until he left all that behind and started making cheesed-out house anthems. 2009's Tongue N' Cheek -- Dizzee's fourth album, and the first that didn't get a proper North American release -- was a big, silly party-rap fart of an album, and it spawned four different UK #1 singles. Given that Dizzee's previous album had come out in the US on El-P's skronk-rap Definitive Jux label, this was quite a turnaround. So now that the fiery old-school grime sound is once again ascendant in the UK, Dizzee's in a weird position. If he kept making EDM raps, he'd be hopelessly out of touch. If he went back to making the kind of music he'd made when he was 16, he could be accused of riding Skepta's wave, even if he helped start that wave in the first place. But instead, Dizzee's found a third path.