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Boy in Da Corner - Dizzee Rascal 
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It was the 21st of May, 2001. The Brixton garage crew DJ Pied Piper And The Masters Of Ceremonies had just delivered their new single, Do You Really Like It? It was a hit. Six days after its release, the single had sold 148,000 units, placing DJ Pied Piper And The Masters Of Ceremonies at number one on the UK singles chart.The success of "Do You Really Like It?" was just one of many victories for garage in the early 2000s.
There ‘s something in its placid shade
That tells of calm, unworldly thought;
Hope may be crown’d, or joy delay’d—
No dimness steals, no ray is caught.
Its pensive language seems to say,
“I know that I must close and die;”
And death itself, come when it may,
Can hardly change the quiet eye.

Images by Niklas Bergstrand, Véra Ada

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There ‘s meaning in its steady glance,
Of gentle blame or praising love,
That makes me tremble to advance
A word, that meaning might reprove.
The haughty threat, the fiery look,
My spirit proudly can defy,
But never yet could meet and brook
The upbraiding of a quiet eye.

Images by Wataru Suzuki, Nick Hudson, The Collaborationist



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