Bassline Junkie

Album: Dirtee TV.com - The Mixtape EP, Vol.2 (2013)
Charted: 10
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Songfacts®:

  • This track from Dizzee's mixtape Dirtee TV.com - The Mixtape EP, Vol.2 sees the rapper down with hard drugs and up with the bass line.
  • The song's music video sees Dizzee take on the role of a white-suited preacher along with comedian sidekick Eric Lampaert, as they preach the religion of bass to the community. French directing quartet MegaForce directed the clip. "The way the hook is sung, especially with the back vocals, led us naturally to the preaching stuff," said Leo and Raphael of Megaforce to Promo News. "We've wanted to address the subject of religion for a while, and as the track is funny and light here, we approached it in a comedy way. It was an opportunity to focus on the comedy acting and to make Dizzee's performance part of the main idea and not something aside an unrelated story."

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