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SEE VIDEO: Dizzee Rascal learned to fight at school

Rapper was always getting into scraps as a lad

Dizzee Rascal was never top of the class as a kid – but school taught him to be a fighter.

The rapper - real name Dylan Mills - was always getting into scraps between classes. And now credits his rough East London high school for turning him from a boy to a man.

‘I went to every school in my area and was kicked out of all of them,' the 22-year-old tells Style magazine.

'I learnt to be a man early at school, but being a man was about fighting. They don’t teach you to think. You just learn to fight.

‘We would play football games, and if you missed a goal, everyone would beat you up. Same with basketball. Miss a point and you’re beaten up.

'Any reason anyone could find to beat you up, they would do it.’

We wouldn't wanna get on the wrong side of him...

See video of Dizzee Rascal's nw single: Pussyole (Old Skool)