Bare-chested in zero degrees celsius Romania and bundled up in 90 degrees Houston really aren’t the extremes that a simple sentence might imply. A bullet-ridden stone wall outside low-income housing of Eastern Europe isn’t that different from a few young men on an East Texas stoop unshaken by a white Caddy’s ominous and loud presence where it definitely shouldn’t be…and neither setting is that far from the English ghetto that birthed Dylan Mills, aka Dizzee Rascal.

“Same shit, different toilet, innit?” Dizzee says of the disparate Romanian and Texan ’hoods that set the scenes for the first two videos from his third record, Maths and English (XL Recordings), an LP that will only be released digitally here in the States. “I don’t know a lot of places like [Houston’s Los Ward] in England, but there are. I’m from the poorest part …