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Album: The Fifth (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This track from Dizzee Rascal's The Fifth album features southern Hip-Hop legend Bun-B and Texan rapper Trae The Truth. The song title refers to a nickname for the Texan city of Houston.
  • Rascal said of the track: "The collaboration for this song started with Bun. I came to Houston and had a good time and it stuck with me. I was doing a mixtape at the time and I ended up writing about it and recorded it, I sent it to Bun and he got on it straight away.
    "When I came to Atlanta," he added, "to record the album I saw Trae in the studio and we decided to do the video."
  • The song first appeared on Dizzee's Dirtee TV The Mixtape Vol.2 earlier in 2013.
  • The video was shot in Houston over the mammoth All Star Weekend, We see Dizzee taking to the streets with Bun-B and Trae Tha Truth along with fellow rapper Truck Buck.

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