"Fix Up, Look Sharp" is the second single by British rapper Dizzee Rascal

Dizzee Rascal

Dylan Kwabena Mills , better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a Ghanaian British rapper, songwriter and record producer. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles...

 and second from his debut album Boy in da Corner

Boy in Da Corner

Boy in da Corner is the debut album of British grime MC Dizzee Rascal, released on 21 July 2003 by XL Recordings in the United Kingdom and Matador Records in the United States...

. The single became his second top forty hit and his first to peak inside the top twenty. "Fix Up, Look Sharp" peaked at number seventeen and spent three weeks inside the top forty and five inside the top seventy five. It was featured in the hit documentary Rize

Rize (2005 film)

Rize is an American documentary movie starring Lil' C, Tommy Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown and Miss Prissy. The documentary exposes the new dance form known as krumping that originated in the early 1990s in Inner City Los Angeles. The film was written and directed by David LaChapelle,...

and on an episode of Skins

Skins (TV series)

Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...

along with the song "Jus' a Rascal

Jus' a Rascal

"Jus' a Rascal" is the third single by British rapper, Dizzee Rascal, and third and final single from his debut album, Boy in da Corner. The single became his third top forty hit, peaking at number thirty and spending three weeks inside the top seventy-five of the UK Singles Chart."Jus' a Rascal"...

". The song also features briefly in the episode Velocity of Smallville

Smallville (TV series)

Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...

. The song heavily samples the main beat and vocals from "The Big Beat" by rock musician Billy Squier

Billy Squier

William Haislip "Billy" Squier is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song "The Stroke" on his 1981 album release Don't Say No...

. The song is sampled in Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip are a hip-hop duo, combining electronic beats with sung, spoken, and rapped lyrics. The pair are Daniel Stephens , and David Peter Meads...

's song "Fixed". The song is also featured in the video game "DJ Hero" in multiple remixes. This song was remixed by Ratatat

Ratatat

Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast .-History:Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College, but they did not work together until 2001, when they recorded several songs under the name "Cherry"...

 and was featured on their Ratatat Remixes Vol. 1 mixtape. In October 2011, NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

placed it at number 25 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Charts

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Chart (2003)	Peak position