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| | riverfronttimes.com | Music | Dizzee Rascal | 2004-09-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In the Caribbean, however, Jamaican dancehall producers liberated the snare drum from the stuffy confines of the 4/4 beat by pushing the two snare pops to the front, and the resulting double-pop emancipation has fundamentally changed not only hip-hop, whose producers now infuse dancehall into their rhythms, but dancing. |
 | | Luckily, Rascal's patois is often impenetrable to American ears -- half the time he could be rhyming about British foreign policy or English setters and we wouldn't be any the wiser. |
 | | Where American hip-hop producers have, for the most part, ignored European techno and drum 'n' bass, Rascal was reared on the deep synthetic hums and rhythms of the music, as well as house, hip-hop, dancehall and U.K. garage. |
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