Dizzee Rascal’s song Dance Wiv Me was included in the playlist despite his domestic violence conviction (Picture: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
The Government’s official Spotify playlist to celebrate the King’s coronation featured a track by grime artist Dizzee Rascal despite his domestic violence conviction before it was later deleted.
The 38-year-old musician, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills, lost an appeal last week after being found guilty in April of assaulting his ex-fiancee, Cassandra Jones, during an altercation at a property in Streatham, south London on June 8 2021.
One of Mills’ most famous tracks, 2008’s Dance Wiv Me featuring Calvin Harris, featured on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) public Coronation Celebration Playlist on Spotify before being deleted.
Other hits on the playlist, which runs for almost two hours, include The Beatles’ Come Together, Boney M’s Daddy Cool, Harry Styles’ Treat People With Kindness, Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill, the Spice Girls’ Say You’ll Be There and the appropriately titled King by Years and Years.
The compilation appears as a link on the new official coronation website under toolkit – a range of materials created to help the UK celebrate the King’s crowning.
Dance Wiv Me featured fifth on the playlist (Picture: Spotify)
Dizzee Rascal lost an appeal last week after being found guilty of assaulting his ex (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
The event, which forms part of a bank holiday weekend of festivities, will take place on May 6.
A DCMS spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘The playlist has been created to celebrate British and Commonwealth artists ahead of the upcoming coronation.
‘A track featuring Dizzee Rascal was included in error and as soon as this was identified it was removed.’
Mills allegedly pressed his forehead against Ms Jones’ and pushed her to the floor during the ‘chaotic’ incident in June 2021.
Camilla, Queen Consort has long campaigned against domestic violence (Picture: Getty Images)
The rapper was given a restraining order, curfew and an electronic tag in April last year after he was found guilty of the assault (Picture: Getty Images)
Ms Jones told the appeal hearing last week the artist ‘reached his red mist where he just doesn’t care,’ before District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said the court was ‘satisfied’ with the original guilty ruling.
The court had previously heard that Ms Jones claimed he had reduced her ‘allowance’ from £2,000 to £1,800 when she was ‘badly behaved’.
After Mills lost his appeal, Ms Jones said the verdict shows ‘wealth and status cannot be used to silence women’ and that ‘support is out there’.
The pair were together for nine years before they split.
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The chart-topping musician is best known for his songs Bonkers, Holiday and Dance Wiv Me.
Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles, who will also be anointed and crowned at the coronation on May 6 alongside her husband, has campaigned against domestic violence for years.
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DCMS said it was ‘included in error’.
