El-P to tour U.S. with Dizzee Rascal

Ever since El-P burst onto the underground hip-hop scene as one half of Company Flow, his talent has been obvious. (Just compare his lyrics, where he regularly rhymes words like tyrannical with mechanical, to the lyrics of any rap song on the Billboard Top 100, which rhyme words like go with...umm... go. How creative!)

Last year, the lyrical linguist released his second solo album, ferociously titled I'll Sleep When You're Dead, which received rave reviews, and early this year it was reported that El-P had remixed Dizzee Rascal's song "Where Da G's." The business man in El also inked a deal with Dizzee to release his Maths + English stateside.

It seems that the two wordsmiths were fast friends. El-P recently announced that he would join Dizzee on the road this spring after their SXSW appearance, and hit several locales across the United States.

In the meantime, El-P will continue to grow his mustache. Longtime fans know El's shifting facial hair can only point to one thing - he's back in the studio, hard at work on his next release, which he calls "a little more than an EP, a bit less than an album, and a whole lot of fuckery." If by "fuckery" El means "an album that's as good as or better than my last two," then we're all for it. The more fuckery the better!

And there's more El-P artistry rumored to be in the works as well. Del the Funky Homosapien, who joined Def Jux to release his upcoming 11th Hour, hinted to Paste in a recent chat that he and El-P are "supposed to be working on something" in the near future.

Dizzee Rascal, solo:

February
15 - Preston, England @ 53 Degrees
16 - Newcastle, England @ Newcastle Academy
17 - London, England @ Shepherds Bush Empire
18 - Sheffield, England @ Leadmill
19 - Manchester, England @ Academy
23 - Portsmouth, England @ Pyramid

Dizzee and El-P:

March
13 - Austin, Texas @ The Scoot Inn (Def Jux SXSW showcase) *

May
8 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
9 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ First Unitarian Church
10 - New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
11 - Boston, Mass. @ Middle East
12 - Ottawa, Ontario @ New Capital Music Hall
14 - Detroit, Mich. @ Crofoot Ballroom
15 - Chicago, Ill. @ The Abbey
16 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ Triple Rock Club
19 - Seattle, Wash. @ Neumos
20 - Portland, Ore. @ Berbati's Pan
21 - San Francisco, Calif. @ 1015
22 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ El Rey

* also include Del the Funky Homosapien, Devin the Dude, the Mighty Underdogs, the Newham Generals, Jammer, Bisc1

Related links:
Paste: Dizzee Rascal's Maths to hit U.S. in April
El-P on Myspace
DefinitiveJux.net

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