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Dizraeli

About Me

Dizraeli is a rapper, writer, poet and singer with the band Bad Science , and a member of the Brighton-basedCommUNITY Collective . He is the 2006/7 Farrago UK Slam Poetry Champion and also the Radio 4 Poetry Slam winner.
Directing his stream of rap-stories like a flashlight into the murkiest corners of British culture, Dizraeli takes in politics, love, rain, supermarkets, grief, drug culture, and the nasty bits of masculinity with a sense of humour and a directness that might make you wince, but that always ring true. He might just help us move things forward. .
Planted originally in Bristol, Diz was nourished by the music and culture that flooded through that city in the 80s and 90s. He grew into a man and moved East to Brighton in 2001. There, he found himself performing all over the shop, welcomed by the fertile hiphop scene on the south coast, and also by the spoken word circuit, where his lyrics were heard as poems. It's all words though innit?
It was at one of these events that he met up with the Canadian rhymesmith Baba Brinkman, and through the meeting of fired up opinions (stubborn bastards) and passionate viewpoints came the birth of Mud Sun , their collaboration group which has produced the slightly mental "Mine the Gap" ep and the definitely excellent "The Rebel Cell" lp, in collaboration with dope producers, the latter a full length hiphop play, a twenty track album where every song is a scene from the show.


They took the stage version of the Rebel Cell up to the Edinburgh Festival this summer and were greeted with starry reviews and wicked audiences. Check out www.babasword.com for a full break down of the show, for a FREE download of the whole thing, and for reviews and video footage of parts of the show.
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Member Since: 20/03/2006
Band Website: dizraeli.com
Band Members: Dizraeli. Me, myself, I and the bastard that sits at the back of my head telling me i'm worthless. Yes and Infinite Potential produced the beats for the tracks up on here. Go and look at them getting musically naked on their site. They make lovely things happen to your ears.

Mr Politician, with Bad Science

Click here for the film of my poem Maria , created by Alex Lindsay when I was performing at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe.

And click here for a listen to the BBC Radio 4 Slam Poetry finals last autumn.

Influences: hiphop. Poets. Friends. Protests. Passionate rants and grown men who aren't afraid to cry. Virginia Woolf. Pharoah Monch. Fuck loads of people and things. Living in the city. Sway. Shad-T. Ted Hughes. Alice Oswald. The Roots.
Sounds Like: Dizraeli
Record Label: Bandiweg's Urban as F@k recordings.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

DIZRAELI AND BABA BRINKMAN EP FINISHED!!

HEY FOLKS.. Well excited at the minute.. I've just heard the masters for the brand new Mud Sun ep, my sideproject with Baba Brinkman (the mighty canadian rapper best known for turning the Canterbury T...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:56:00 GMT

BBC RADIO 4 SLAM FINALS WINNER....!

Alright then. On Saturday I won the BBC Radio 4 UK Slam Finals: it was a thing I hadn't expected really at all. I like how chilled the attitude between the poets normally is at these events. You can s...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:18:00 GMT

DIZRAELI: UK SLAM POETRY CHAMPION...!

Alright peoples. Well not wanting to blow my own bleedin bugle or anything but i thought i'd let you know like. Dizraeli is now officially the Farrago UK Slam Poetry Champion for 2006/7. The finals to...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:41:00 GMT