http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/dizzee-rascal-uncaged/049422
"What Dizzee means is: 'It allows a wider remit of artistic expression,'" he jokingly, forcefully clarifies. He looks at me suspiciously: "Who are we talking to here?"
Ten months into this job, and I have never witnessed the words 'Music Week' cause anywhere near such elation. Cage openly guffaws: "Ha! Say what the fuck you like!"
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
Someone needs to get their act together and just put out that 2CD career retrospective because it'd still be better than the equivalent comp from pretty much anyone else.
A loose-fit turquoise Ralph Lauren shirt brushing over tree trunk torso and beefy belly, he's a boisterous bruiser with a box-clever tongue; a bantersaurus with a Pulitzer in pinpoint put-downs and prickly piss-takes.
Looking forward to his eponymous strip in Viz sometime soon.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to make the hits, go on TV and make the syncs and that shit. But I want to be able to say shit, cunt, bollocks and all that - talk about obscene stuff. That's what albums are for."
This has nothing to do with what we're talking about I just want to preserve it for when I inevitably need to requote it in the future.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
wiley IS a fairly beloved pop figure though - obv not to the extent of dizzee, but tbh i'm not sure how much wiley's persona at its best would translate to mass mass mass stadium appeal anyway. he's not a rabble-rouser or party-starter, he's a slightly grumpy loose cannon. his antics haven't sabotaged his career to anywhere near the extent they should have, and have probably only enhanced his legend (to people who care).
the missed opportunity was someone with wiley's talent taking on the mentoring role to other artists.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's fair to say that a lack of a decent editor (even on a line-by-line basis) has stopped him from ever making a great album. Even the decent ones are met with general indifference.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Tim Finney on the new album: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17772-wiley-the-ascent/
Correctly identifying the Kid-D produced tracks as MVPs, they are gorgeous. 'Humble Pie' ended up as one of my favourite songs of last year. A couple of collabs that didn't make it on the album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptTD37klofkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knkt8ZptBpE
― Mercer Finn, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
tim otm about how half-hearted the EDM choruses are, the tulisa one sounds especially unfinished and grafted clumsily in
surprised at the tracks tim identifies as standouts, they seemed much of a boring muchness with the rest to me - the aggressive posse cuts are the best/most enjoyable but also, yes, what's the point now
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, I think "enjoyable but also, yes, what's the point now" is perhaps a broader criticism w/r/t Wiley.
It seemed a bit self-indulgent else I would have explained that my enjoyment of "Humble Pie" and "Broken Thoughts" (I assume they're the "standouts" you're referring to) is basically a derivation of the time I first played a handmade tape sent to me by Luka containing that Dizzee "I like girls, I like sex" tune, pretty much exactly ten years ago now.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
nostalgia :(
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
oh is "humble Pie" the ~reflective~ one? both dizzee and wiley perfected that track with the closers off their respective debuts
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Broken Thoughts" is better IMO. Straight lost girlfriend vibes.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
ha, "prissy" has long been my go-to adjective for wiley cat
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Blandford Forum, Friday, 28 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
new album's actually good! despite gudda gudda of all people popping up
"no skylarking" and "badman", all thumbs up
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
It is pretty good, but there's still the nagging feeling he isn't bringing his A-game here - I wonder if he knows what that sounds like at this stage. Gudda Gudda verse is so unwelcome.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
has wiley ever managed to stretch tier one wiley over the course of an lp
― milord z (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
treddin' on thin ice and grime wave are as close as it gets probably
success of a wiley album tends to depend on how exciting the beats are, i think - he remains fairly constant
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link
The gap between tier one Wiley and the rest of his work is pronounced though, his best stuff is always fast and pacey and usually grimey, and his limitations as an MC are usually exposed when momentum is withdrawn.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
http://ninjatune.net/release/wiley-and-zomby/step-2001/
wiley and zomby collabo. more interesting on paper tbh. its actually a bit boring.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 28 August 2015 11:49 (eight years ago) link
Grim
The celebrity Wiley not only comparing Jewish people to the KKK, but also getting a conspiracy theory in there too.This is unabashed antisemitism.Antisemitism is everywhere. It must be called out and eradicated.Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/mKeB5EDUw3— alf🌹 (@alfiewm_) July 24, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 24 July 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
ffs
― Ă€ la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 July 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
What a moron
― paolo, Friday, 24 July 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
fucking hell, is he ever going to stop? and plenty of approving replies from other antisemites.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 July 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
As if the antisemitic rhetoric wasn't bad enough…
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/24/wiley-accused-of-antisemitism-after-likening-jews-to-ku-klux-klan
― pomenitul, Friday, 24 July 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
he spent the whole day posting antisemitic shit on Twitter, in the end he even moved on to holocaust denial.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
God, what a dickhead.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, 25 July 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
Is this remotely typical for Wiley?
― djh, Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
Member of the Order of the British Empire, eh?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Indeed, what a genius.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
total shitshow on twitter- a few people defending him saying the reaction just proves his point, a whole army of white people giving totally unrelated black people shit in the name of antiracism, every prominent black grime related artist being misidentified as Wiley “for some reason”, people trying to make it all about BLM/The Left/Israel/etc
― the state is bad (Left), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
As they say on r/AmItheAsshole, ESH (Everyone Sucks Here).
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
what a wankstain, forgot he was a royal arselicker. pathetic man.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
total shitshow on twitter
Get away.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
how many antisemites and paedos have been given royal orders by now anyway
― the state is bad (Left), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
has Stormzy commented?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Stormzy hasn’t been on social media for months now.
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
He's apologised for making 'comments that were looked at as anti-Semitic'.
Might have well said that he's sorry people were offended but better than no apology at all I guess. Interesting that he only said sorry after being banned from Twitter.
― paolo, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
You can’t make this up... Guardian uses a photo of Kano in an article on racism when referencing Wiley đź’€ pic.twitter.com/cgwhD0YwYU— aruba â–Ľ red (@ArubaRed) July 29, 2020
― paolo, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
apparently same issue as with denise, incorrectly labelled library pics.but still ..
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
^ Apparently NME, Daily Mail, Guardian and another (Express, I think) ran wrong pictures of Denise. Certainly, the Guardian picked this up fairly quickly and removed the pictures ... but it's wank, isn't it?
― djh, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
The Independent had the wrong picture for Denise Johnson
― nate woolls, Thursday, 30 July 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
they do this every couple of days they’re basically doing it on purpose with how little of a shit they give about preventing these mistakes
― the state is bad (Left), Thursday, 30 July 2020 07:12 (three years ago) link
Jones is a fucking tool for joining in this racist liberal performance even with his usual buts and otohs. but what’s new
― the state is bad (Left), Thursday, 30 July 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link