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Blues Classical Country. The question is, how do three kids from a council estate become an inadvertent cultural phenomenon, sell 1. The year-old has travelled to the US with her band mates to work on new songs for Def Jam Records, with whom they recently signed a US deal. With us, Max Gousse [Def Jam vice-president] came down for a couple of shows, watched us perform, we had a few meetings, and that was it. He got it. I love you guys. Their deal with Def Jam epitomises both their place at the apex of the UK scene, along with acts such as Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah and Lethal Bizzle a touchy subject in N-Dubz headquarters since he accused the group of stealing one of his song ideas.
But a lot of times, the media make up things and exaggerate things. Like, the paintball thing, for instance — that never actually happened. Dappy paintballed one girl on the bum from a distance. We stand corrected. Well, it probably wouldn't have been the most sensible move to make, I suggest. I meet N-Dubz again one week later, at a private airfield in Toulon, where they are filming the video for their new single, "Best Behaviour".
This is a lament on the twisted nature of fame, on the flawed logic of embracing the adoration of vast quantities of fans while forsaking a truer relationship with one person.
The video mainly involves a lot of mournful disembarking from a private jet, some lonely clattering around a beautiful house high in the hills of Provence and the wielding of a great deal of Louis Vuitton luggage. What's the story behind the video? I ask Ben Peters, the director. Filming is an interminable process. The hold-ups are myriad and unexplained; N-Dubz endure it with wearied resignation and occasional blow-ups.
Dappy's pregnant girlfriend, Kaye, is on set, along with Gino, his son. Dappy plays with Gino; he is uncharacteristically calm in his family's company. But he also appears to have developed a new catchphrase — "We beat the system!
Elsewhere: Tulisa wears a coral kaftan and sleeps between takes; she requires considerable quantities of pizza to be shipped in she won't eat anything else. Fazer amuses himself quietly in corners and is delighted to discover that Tulisa's buff, video love interest extra can't swim that well. I talk sartorial reinvention with Dappy and Fazer's stylist, who aches to get both of them into trousers that aren't two sizes too wide and long. I witness Dappy erupting when he discovers there is to be no more food on set that day.
He and I end up loitering in an antechamber together; I grab the opportunity to ask him if he's backing either of the Miliband brothers in the Labour leadership election battle.
Oh, but I think you all went to the same school. Not at that same time, but still…. We talk about the future of N-Dubz. Dappy expects that, eventually, he and Tulisa will work independently of each other on solo efforts and that Fazer will write and produce for other artists. He says he has plans for his own fashion line: "Na Na Wear! You're going to get trousers and everything.
I think I am! A little bit. Money makes it easier and there's no point saying it doesn't. I could get into trouble! But I try not to. I leave N-Dubz in the midst of the private airfield in France. They clamber on and off the jet they've hired for this scene, in line with the director's instructions, hefting the Louis Vuitton luggage, singing the hook to "Best Behaviour". They wave me off and thank me for coming; they are a fantastically courteous bunch of celebrities, perhaps the most civil I've met.
You have, Dappy, I thought at the time. You really have. Now, I think: you wouldn't necessarily turn to N-Dubz first for life lessons. And yet N-Dubz are grafters and also dedicated, loyal, authentic, unspoiled by success, ingenuous, unexpectedly kind, inadvertently funny and, yes, really very polite.
All in all, you could do a lot worse. Polly Vernon. The three members of N-Dubz have overcome tough upbringings and personal tragedy to become the country's most entertaining pop act. Photograph: Alex Sturrock for the Observer. I shrug; I was hoping he could tell me.
Three or four! She sighs. And then, suddenly, Uncle B died. I gave him mouth to mouth. So, wait. Dappy, you found your father's body? Mouth to mouth, knocked on his head!
N-Dubz are Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer. To label the trio an underground phenomenon is almost an understatement. Not since 'So Solid Crew' has a group captured teenagers consciousness quite so quickly. The trio are barely out of their teens but they have been singing and working together around the London and South-Coast club scenes for seven years. Dappy is a singer, song writer and producer, and has already five 12" releases under his belt. He is mainly influenced by 2pac, Eminem, Dr.
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