'Playing with Fire' is amazing. I think (had it been the first single) it would've gone top three. Number one with decent promotion.

Playing With Fire is already top 40 in today's midweeks! I Need You is #21. I like Playing With Fire so much more, especially the part when Tulisa sings 'Intuition keeps telling me.' I hope it goes top 10 at least or has a Strong Again-like chart run.

According to this - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a18...ith-n-dubz.html - Tinchy Stryder's looking at collaborating with them again, but as the whole group and not just Dappy like on Number One. I actually see him using Tulisa like how he used Amelle for Never Leave You, something like that would be so awesome!

'Playing With Fire' is actually dreadful. It's even worse than 'I Need You' if that's possible.

Why Mr Hudson chose to work with them is beyond me. :mellow:

Edited December 1, 200915 yr by Cremey

Maybe to strengthen his so-far floppy career, why N-Dubz chose to work with him I don't know. The song would be perfectly fine without him, Tulisa could have even done his ad-libs instead

Mr Hudson is the best thing about that song imo. But I think this track works so well. I love it. Also like the video alot too.

they did an amazing acoustic version:

 

N-Dubz putting drama behind them

Thursday, December 03, 2009

 

It was supposed to be a chance for N-Dubz to let their music do the talking once again. But, instead, the new 13-day tour that includes a date in Hull next week has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

"We were at a gig in Cambridge last week and, at the end, I threw my hat into the crowd as usual," says group member Dino Contostavlos, more commonly known as Dappy.

"It's something I always do and whoever catches it gets to keep it and come backstage after the concert with five mates.

"Well this one lad caught it and stuffed it up his jumper but then people in the crowd started kicking and punching him to get it.

"We don't want violence and we don't agree with it but what can we do? It was bad he couldn't come backstage afterwards but he was happy with the signed hat – I've just got his mum on my back now saying it's all my fault."

The incident was just the latest in a series of off-the-stage distractions for N-Dubz recently, with lead singer Tula "Tulisa" Contostavlos being cleared of having swine flu earlier this year.

And just days before their current Christmas Party Tour began last month, Dappy and the third member of the group, Richard "Fazer" Rawson, were wanted by police as potential witnesses to an alleged sexual assault at a concert in Skegness.

The headlines momentarily threatened to overshadow the trio's musical success but the hip-hop group are now back on the stage and letting their music do the talking. And it's music that won them a MOBO award for Best Newcomer in 2007.

The London-based group is currently taking part in two tours – a Clubland Live tour with Cascada and their own Christmas Party Tour to promote their second album, Against All Odds, which was released last month.

The tour will see them play at the University of Hull on Tuesday, in celebration of an album that has already enjoyed huge success and even features a song written for N-Dubz by Take That's Gary Barlow.

It is another impressive name to add to the list of the group's collaborators, which already includes the likes of Tinchy Stryder, Chipmunk and Esmee Denters.

"We've been lucky enough to work with some good people," adds Dappy. "We've had a number one with Tinchy Stryder but Gary Barlow was the best to work with.

"We were really happy to work with him and we think that song's the best on the album. It's as cool as it gets.

"Now, we just wanna put all the headlines behind us and get on that stage and smash it up now, though not physically – I've had enough of that."

Rappers? We're just two boys with a sexy girl in the middle, say N-Dubz

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When London trio N-Dubz decided to call their current album Against All Odds, the move had nothing to do with a lingering admiration for the Phil Collins song of the same name.

Rapper and singer Dino 'Dappy' Contostavlos admits to being an unlikely fan of the Genesis drummer's solo output - but he says the title was picked purely for its emotional resonance.

N-Dubz are one of this year's most remarkable homegrown successes. Formed ten years ago on a tough council estate, the multi-racial band have overcome heartbreaking family tragedy and financial adversity to make their mark.

 

Success against all odds: Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer specialise in urban music with a melody

They topped the singles charts for three weeks in April with Number 1 (a collaboration with Tinchy Stryder), won two MOBO Awards in September and have sold more than 500,000 albums to a largely teenage audience that usually downloads music without paying for it.

In addition, they have recorded a song, No One Knows, with Take That's Gary Barlow, fronted a government-sponsored campaign to fight cyber-bullying and shown that a young group can be successful on their own terms without resorting to The X Factor.

Yet, despite their rags-to-riches story, Dappy and his two bandmates - cousin Tulisa Contostavlos and former schoolmate Richard 'Fazer' Rawson - still feel like underdogs.

'We called the album Against All Odds because that's the way we sometimes see ourselves,' says Fazer, 22. 'It's a case of us, and our fans, against the world.' Growing up in the inner city, the Camden Town trio were kept off the streets by Dappy's father (and Tulisa's uncle) Byron Contostavlos.

A former bassist with Seventies charttoppers Mungo Jerry, Byron ('Uncle B' to the band) managed N-Dubz until his untimely death from a heart attack in April 2007.

Having nurtured them since their pre-teens, he passed away just as N-Dubz, who take their name from Camden's NW1 postcode, were beginning to cross over from the London hiphop scene into the pop mainstream.

'Uncle B was our driving force,' says Tulisa, 21. 'Even though he has gone, he's still keeping us together. We're doing this for him.

'Even when we have band rows, we keep going for his sake.

He had a vision. We were just three normal kids, but he saw us as famous pop stars and convinced us it could happen. 'He worked six days a week as a barber to pay for our equipment, rehearsal space, studio time and petrol to drive us to gigs.' Dappy, 22, who sports an eyecatching-line in bobbled, floppyearedhats, agrees that his dad's dedication kept him and Fazer out of trouble.

When the band, who write all their own songs, released their debut album last year, they called it Uncle B in his memory (Byron himself had wanted to call it Against All Odds, so he eventually got his wish).

'He was everything to us,' says Dappy. 'He was our mentor, bus driver, lawyer, bank manager and a father. If it wasn't for dad, Fazer and I might be either dead or in jail. Tulisa might have been young, pregnant and living alone on a council estate.

'We're good-hearted young people, but some of the characters who surrounded us would only have driven us in one direction. Dad kept us away from all that.'

The camaraderie forged during their years of struggle is evident when I catch up with N-Dubz as they record an acoustic session for BBC Radio 1Xtra in London.

Improvising wildly and finishing each other's lines as they run through a mesmerising, strippeddown version of recent Top Five single I Need You, the three vocalists have an almost telepathic understanding, with Tulisa's dulcet tones softening the edgier outpourings of Dappy and Fazer.

And, while they are still regarded by some as a hip-hop act, their increasingly eclectic approach makes N-Dubz almost impossible to pin down.

Alongside solo performers like Dizzee Rascal and Chipmunk, they have taken UK rap out of the underground and into the charts by adding potent pop hooks. Against All Odds is notable not because of its hard-hitting rhythms, but because of its irresistibly tuneful songs.

'Since we released our first album, there have been some big changes in urban music,' says Fazer. 'Two or three years ago, people weren't writing melodies. They were afraid to use more than two notes on the keyboard. Now everyone has discovered tunes.'

'We make no bones about the fact that we are entertainers,' adds Tulisa. 'There are a couple of hard, urban tracks on the album, but that doesn't mean our music is dark. Some people might focus on that and try to tarnish us. I'd rather focus on the positive.'

Looking forward, Dappy is keen to emphasise the trio's individuality. Being bracketed with some of their high-achieving peers as part of a new Brit-Rap Pack might be good for business, but N-Dubz want to stand on their own six feet.

Now managed by Jonathan Shalit, the impresario best known for overseeing the careers of classical crossover artists like Charlotte Church and Myleene Klass, the underdogs could be forgiven for beginning to feel optimistic about their prospects.

'Its narrow-minded to lump all the new acts together,' says Dappy. 'I rate Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee and Taio Cruz, but we're not part of any movement.

'We're doing our own thing - two boys with a sexy girl in the middle.'

• Against All Odds is out now. A new N-Dubz single, Playing With Fire, follows on January 11.

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...l#ixzz0YjKvbaOb

 

They performed Playing With Fire really good on the MTV Sessions. Here is the link - http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/n-dubz/session/n-dubz

I agree. It sounds good.

Tula tells court of ‘gun jibe’

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N-DUBZ beauty Tula Contostavlos feared being shot during a confrontation with a gang of thugs that ended in a stabbing, she told a court.

The hip-hop star was giving evidence at the trial of former fiancé Adam Bailey, accused of being involved in the attack.

Tula said that in the early hours she had driven with fellow N-Dubz star Dappy, 22, to a shop where an earlier confrontation had taken place involving Dappy, Bailey and others.

She got out of her car amid a melee involving 20 youths - and a yob approached her, she told London's Blackfriars Crown Court.

She said: "All I heard was, 'Where's the ting? Buss it', which I know from 50 Cent songs means 'Where's the gun? Shoot it'.

"When I heard that I thought, 'Oh my God, he's got a gun'."

The singer, 21, said she ran back to her car in North London's busy Finchley Road. She said Bailey then drove by and an object was thrown at his car.

Tula added: "I saw his car flip, a full tumble. Adam got out with a bat in his hand, looking around disorientated, swinging the bat.

"He was just trying to get a metre space away from everybody to protect himself."

She said she screamed "get in the car" before she, Bailey and Dappy sped off.

They heard of the stabbing the next day, she said.

The prosecution alleges Bailey, 25, had returned to the scene of the first incident with a bat seeking revenge.

Prosecutor Simon Ward said the wounded man, Mark Nagle, 20, claimed he saw two men get out of an overturned car, one with a baseball bat. They were joined by two others, one carrying a knife.

Mr Ward said Mr Nagle was hit with a bat and stabbed in the stomach and added: "Bailey told the police he had a baseball bat in his car."

Bailey, who is not accused of wielding the knife but is charged on the basis of "joint enterprise", denies wounding and dangerous driving.

Case continues.

 

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...l#ixzz0YzB0NgDS

 

Edited December 7, 200915 yr by Proudly Chav

Playing With Fire should've been the lead single.. it would've done better then INY, but then again, it was nice to see N-Dubz could get a top 5 hit on their own. :)

SO much drama! Wow. I think it just goes to show how far they've come in such a short time. I'm sure they have made many close friends from around their area and the estate they lived who aren't doing positive things in their lives so I think they do need to distance themselves from these dramas. However they have grown up with these people and i'm sure they don't want to just dismiss those people as if they're better than them so it's a tough situation for them, but I just hope they don't find themselves in any of these situations again.

And I loooooooooooooove the "Shoulda put something on" performance. So so good.

great post

Have youell seen them performance and interview on Jonathon Ross? It's real legit, Tulisa looking so fitt <3

 

They've also just some epic covers of Chris Brown's "I Can Transform Ya" and Jay-Z's "99 Problems"

 

Against All Odds has also now sold Platinum :yahoo: They doing so amazingggg nan nan niii x

Damn a little worried bout how thee singles will chart this weekk. INY is #58 up on iTunes so it could take a hugee slide out the top 40, shiit. :( PWF is #32 in midweeks despite being #19 on iTunes :s

N-Dubz £3,000 Shopping Spree

 

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N-Dubz took £3,000 worth of sports wear from clothing store JD Sports at the invitation of the chain's boss.

 

According to The Sun, owner Barry Brown watched the 'Strong Again' stars performing in Hull and was so impressed that he offered them a free shopping spree at the local store.

 

The trio - Tulisa, Fazer and Dappy - took up the offer and bagged thousands of pounds worth of freebies.

 

One eyewitness told the paper: "Taking full advantage, they went straight to the store the next day and left just 30 minutes later with over £3,000 of kit. Not sure if Barry meant for them to take quite so much."

 

Source: http://angryape.com/news/n-dubz-3000-shopping-spree

Nothing to fear about 'Playing With Fire'. It'll deffo be another Top 10 for them, it'll outsell 'I Need You' too I should think. Well hope.