"Flex" is the third single from British

United Kingdom

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 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...

's third studio album Maths + English

Maths + English

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, and ninth overall. The song reached #23 on the UK Singles Chart

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, while his previous single

Pussyole (Old Skool)

"Pussyole " also known as just "Pussyole" and cleanly as just "Old Skool", is the second single taken from British rapper Dizzee Rascal's third studio album Maths + English, and eighth overall. It reached #22 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Indie Singles Chart for a week...

 placed 1 higher at #22, but topped the UK Indie Singles Chart for 2 weeks, while his previous single topped it only for a week.

Music video

The video is set in a dream of Dizzee Rascal's after he falls asleep while watching TV, bored of the programs on it. The video parodies X-Factor as "Flex Factor" (though the video censors the "X" logo of X-Factor, which was on the TV Dizzee was watching). It features Reggie Yates

Reggie Yates

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 as one of the three judges along with a woman and Dizzee Rascal. Rapper Mike Skinner

The Streets

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 also features in the video as one of the performers, along with Peterborough United

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 footballer Gabriel Zakuani

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 and magician Dynamo

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. Instead of singing as on The X-Factor contestants, including Dizzee, dance on the Flex Factor - but all are considered bad by the judges apart from two girls dressed in black, who end up winning. Each girl kisses Dizzee on both cheeks at the end of the video, which then Dizzee stands up from his seat, pulls his pants up, and goes backstage with them, which Reggie later follows him.

Track listings

CD

1. "Flex" (Original)
2. "Flex" (Dave Spoon Reflex)
3. "Flex" (Dave Spoon Redub)
4. "Flex" (Micky Slim Remix)
5. "Flex" (Micky Slim Dub)
6. "Flex" (D 70 Remix)

7" Vinyl

1. "Flex" (Original)
2. "Pussy'ole (Old Skool)" (Family of Five Remix)

Charts

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Chart (2007)	Peak position