Dizzee Rascal charged with assaulting a girl in a “home argument”
Dizzee Rascal has been charged with assaulting a girl in a “home argument” at her south London residence, police have confirmed.
The rapper, actual identify is Dylan Mills, was arrested on June 8 on suspicion of frequent assault and was later launched on bail. He was charged right this moment (August 2) and is because of seem at Croydon Magistrates’ Court docket on September 3.
Metropolitan Police mentioned [via The Sun]: “Dylan Mills, 36, of Sevenoaks, Kent, has been charged with assault after an incident at a residential deal with in Streatham on 8 June.
“Officers attended and a girl reported minor accidents. She didn’t require hospital therapy. Mills is because of seem at Croydon Magistrates’ Court docket on Friday, 3 September.”
NME has reached out to Dizzee Rascal’s representatives for remark.
In different information, final month the rapper mentioned that he thinks Glastonbury competition organisers have been “scared” to make him a headliner. He has performed the competition a number of occasions earlier than however has by no means carried out on the prime spot.
“I ought to have headlined Glastonbury,” he advised Chuckie On-line on the JD In The Duffle Bag Podcast. “I’ve accomplished Glastonbury since I believe 2008, may need been the primary time I did it.
“I used to be one from the headline, after which somebody dropped out, so they need to have moved me up, however then they placed on Gorillaz or somebody,” he mentioned, referring to the 2010 version of the competition the place he was on the invoice after Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson and Vampire Weekend – and was one spot under headliners U2.
U2 have been pressured to drag out of the competition that yr when frontman Bono suffered a again damage. Dizzee mentioned he felt like he ought to have been made a headliner.
Requested why he thought they opted to go along with the Damon Albarn-led outfit as an alternative of him, he answered: “It’s the boldness, they didn’t have the boldness.
“Although they’d seen me smashing the shut out of it, they have been simply scared. After which Gorillaz got here on, and no offence to them, however you’re not getting the identical factor.”