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AboutDarren Dixon (born 19 January 1980), known professionally as D Double E, is a British grime MC, DJ and record producer from Forest Gate, East London. He performs both as a solo artist and as a member of the grime duo Newham Generals.
D Double E has been active for over 20 years, beginning his career in jungle and UK garage music. In the mid-1990s, he was a DJ and went by the name DJ Dan. D Double was at the time in a crew called Bass Inject, alongside Terror Danjah and DJ Tempo. In 1998, Terror and D Double E went on to form the drum and bass collective the Reckless Crew which played sets on Rinse FM. RWD, He was a member of the early grime collective N.A.S.T.Y Crew, until leaving after a dispute in 2004. He then founded the group Newham Generals together with Monkstar and Footsie The group remains active as a duo consisting of D Double E and Footsie. He and the Newham Generals signed to Dizzee Rascal's Dirtee Stank label.
As a solo artist, D Double E's releases include "Street Fighter Riddim", "Bluku, Bluku", "Bad 2 tha Bone", "Lovely Jubbly", and "Wolly". In 2017, he released "How I Like It" on his Bluku Music label in preparation for his debut studio album.[citation needed]"Better Than the Rest" featuring Wiley was released as a single in early 2018. The album was announced to be called Jackuum! which was originally set to be released in April 2018 but was pushed back and eventually ended up being released at the end of August 2018. D Double also started his own label in 2018.
He is known for using vocalisations such as "bud-a-bup-bup" and "it's mree, mree". Fellow MC Skepta once named him as the "greatest of all time", and Dizzee Rascal said he was one of the artists who inspired him to start MCing.
IKEA invited D Double E to create a special soundtrack for a Christmas 2019 campaign, marking the first time the grime music genre was used in seasonal advertising.
D Double E has been active for over 20 years, beginning his career in jungle and UK garage music. In the mid-1990s, he was a DJ and went by the name DJ Dan. D Double was at the time in a crew called Bass Inject, alongside Terror Danjah and DJ Tempo. In 1998, Terror and D Double E went on to form the drum and bass collective the Reckless Crew which played sets on Rinse FM. RWD, He was a member of the early grime collective N.A.S.T.Y Crew, until leaving after a dispute in 2004. He then founded the group Newham Generals together with Monkstar and Footsie The group remains active as a duo consisting of D Double E and Footsie. He and the Newham Generals signed to Dizzee Rascal's Dirtee Stank label.
As a solo artist, D Double E's releases include "Street Fighter Riddim", "Bluku, Bluku", "Bad 2 tha Bone", "Lovely Jubbly", and "Wolly". In 2017, he released "How I Like It" on his Bluku Music label in preparation for his debut studio album.[citation needed]"Better Than the Rest" featuring Wiley was released as a single in early 2018. The album was announced to be called Jackuum! which was originally set to be released in April 2018 but was pushed back and eventually ended up being released at the end of August 2018. D Double also started his own label in 2018.
He is known for using vocalisations such as "bud-a-bup-bup" and "it's mree, mree". Fellow MC Skepta once named him as the "greatest of all time", and Dizzee Rascal said he was one of the artists who inspired him to start MCing.
IKEA invited D Double E to create a special soundtrack for a Christmas 2019 campaign, marking the first time the grime music genre was used in seasonal advertising.
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