I Luv U (Dizzee Rascal song)

Infobox Single
Name = I Luv U


Artist = Dizzee Rascal
from Album = Boy in da Corner
Released = 26 May, 2003
Format = CD single
Vinyl
Recorded = 2002
Genre = Rap/Hip hop/Grime
Length = 4:05
Label = XL Records
Writer = D. Mills
Producer =
Chart position =

#29 (UK)
Reviews =
Last single =
This single = "I Luv U"
(2003)
Next single = "Fix Up, Look Sharp"
(2003)

"I Luv U" is the debut single by British rapper Dizzee Rascal and the lead single from his debut album "Boy in da Corner". The single became Dizzee Rascal's first top forty hit, peaking at number twenty-nine and spending three weeks inside the top seventy-five. It was produced by Jacob Friett. It is sometimes mistaken for the second single released by Dizzee Rascal, after number two, Fix Up, Look Sharp.

The song is about teenage relationships, teenage pregnancy, undesirable player girls and falling for girls who are using you. More specifically, the song chronicles a relationship where sex is used as blackmail ending up in the eventual breakdown of said relationship when the male character starts fantasizing about a college girl. Although the college girl has escaped the ghetto via education, according the Dizzee, she still gives "ghetto head". These are all things that are said in a joking manner, yet they sound all too real and horrifying [Chang, Jeff. “Future Shock.” Village Voice, 19 January 2004.] .The chorus features Dizzee Rascal and an unknown woman conversing.

Track listing

CD:

# "I Luv U" (clean radio edit)
# "I Luv U" (remix)
# "I Luv U" (original mix)

References