Biography

Lethal Bizzle

by Maggie Cage,

Synopsis

Lethal Bizzle is a British rapper and an actor. He began his career with the Grime group, More Fire Crew which he formed with his friends. After the group dissolved, Bizzle has released some songs & albums most of which have entered the UK Singles Chart.

Early life and Career

Lethal Bizzle was born Maxwell Owusu Ansah on 14th October 1984 in Walthamstow, London. He is British by nationality and belongs to Black ethnicity. His Ghanaian parents raised him.

Bizzle started his career in music after forming a  Grime music group named, More Fire Crew with Neeko & Ozzie B as MCs in 2000. After two years of the formation of the group, they released their first song, Oi! in 2002 which ranked 7th on the UK Singles Chart.

Some days after the release of the album, the crew disbanded, & Bizzle moved to pursue his solo career in music. He released his single, Pow (Forward) in 2004 which was banned by airplay as the lyrics contained some words about gun culture. Despite that, it enrolled the UK Singles Chart.

In 2007, Bizzle released his second studio album, Back to BIzznizz, it ranked #86 in music chart.  

By 2013, Bizzle had begun to experiment with several genres of music & released a non-string album, Not a Saint with producer Vato Gonzalez & artist, Dutch DJ, collaborating with Donae’o.

Apart from singing, Bizzle was also involved in acting; he made a cameo appearance in Anuvahood in 2011. A year later, he worked in British sitcomBad Education, along with Jack Binstead, Sarah Solemani and Mathew Home among others.

 Bizzle then featured on BBC’s, Match of the Day 2ITV2’s Celebrity Juice making a guest appearance. He also took part in BBC iPlayer with DJ Target, DJ Semtex, and A.Dot.

Personal life

Rapper Lethal Bizzle is possibly single currently. He is not comfortable sharing information regarding his love life & affairs.  For now, he is more focused on building up his career as a rapper.

Controversy

 Bizzle made headlines in 2017 for a feud with the North London based chart-topping group N-Dubz. Lethal Brizzle who is N-Dubz' rival from East London accused the group of stealing from his demo he sent Tulisa, a member of N-Dubz, and using it for their song I Need You. 

Later on, they came to a settlement & N-Dubz agreed to pay some percentage from their song to Bizzle.

Bizzle even posted a statement after the settlement,

‘Kemp and Ross came to their senses and we've agreed to a percentage of the Little Bit Leave It song there so no more issues. So you lot, go out there and support the ting cos now I'm getting paid for it, I'm going to make sure my cheque is healthy so support it, it's out now and all that good stuff.’

N-Dubz had previously claimed that they had recorded their song 2 months before the demo.

Net worth

 English rapper, Lethal Bizzle has earned a good net worth from his music career. Besides making music, he has also appeared in numbers of series and movies, the earning from which adds up to his income.

Besides these, Bizzle also co-owned a successful T-shirt business with his footballer cousin, Emmanuel Frimpong. From all these sources, Lethal Bizzle has an estimated net worth of $1.16 million.  Bizzle owned a red Ferrari 458 which he lost in an accident in the year 2013. The car crashed in an accident.