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Article: Getting stabbed isn't glamorous. It has made me respect life more and work harder; DIZZEE RASCAL HIP HOP'S NATIONAL TREASURE.(News)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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Byline: ROS WYNNE-JONES
WHEN Dizzee Rascal was 18, two lifechanging things happened to him just weeks apart.
On September 9, 2003, he won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. On July 7 the same year, he had been stabbed six times in the Cypriot resort of Ayia Napa.
Ask him now which was the more important event in his life, and he answers without hesitation.
"Getting stabbed," he says. "I always knew it could happen. It had happened to people around me and it was normal. But being so close to death - that changed me. Now I just appreciate ...