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" With his debut album, Boy in da Corner, 19-year-old British rapper Dizzee Rascal has vaulted from the gritty projects of East London to the center of the music aristocracy. Last fall, the disc unexpectedly beat out heavily favored Radiohead and Coldplay for the prestigious Mercury Prize (roughly the UK equivalent of a Grammy). Now the album has arrived stateside. The problem: Not only is Dizzee&amp;#039;s dense accent hard to decipher over the album&amp;#039;s grinding electronica, he also uses slang that&amp;#039;s a cocktail of Cockney, West Indian, and transliterated American hip-hop. We asked him to help us Yanks out with a lyric glossary.  Bang: &amp;quot;Chk-chk [emulating the sound of a gun cocking]. Gun.&amp;quot; Beenies: &amp;quot;Females.&amp;quot; Blad: &amp;quot;Blood -- like, Whassup, blood? But we say it like blad.&amp;quot; Bumped: &amp;quot;Conned, ripped off.&amp;quot; Creps: &amp;quot;Trainers [sneakers].&amp;quot; Dang: &amp;quot;Scared.&amp;quot; Div: &amp;quot;Divvy -- dumb. Tha&amp;#039;s a Cockney word.&amp;quot; Gully: &amp;quot;You guys use that word here as well. Where the water goes on the side of the street.&amp;quot; Gyal: &amp;quot;Girl.&amp;quot; HMP: &amp;quot;Prison -- Her Majesty&amp;#039;s Prison. It&amp;#039;s hers, too, innit? In England, we got a thing where they send you away and the queen chooses if you come out. Like once every seven years or summat, the queen looks through the book and, Yeah, let him aht.&amp;quot; Jacking: &amp;quot;Stealing.&amp;quot; Nang: &amp;quot;You fink you&amp;#039;re ool [all] that, John Blaze.&amp;quot; On road: &amp;quot;On the streets.&amp;quot; Rinsed: &amp;quot;When you rinse somefing, you go ool aht.&amp;quot; Schols: &amp;quot;Thassa ol&amp;#039; school word. Scholar: schols.&amp;quot; Screw face, push-up face: &amp;quot;Basically, just a serious, mean face.&amp;quot; Shotters: &amp;quot;Drug dealers.&amp;quot; Vex: &amp;quot;Vexed, angry.&amp;quot; Wahgwan: &amp;quot;S&amp;#039;goin&amp;#039; on? Whassup?&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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