;_;
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 February 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
BAN WILEY FROM ILX
You might want to have a look at @smashed90 as well. No one emerges from this with any credit really.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
nice wiley, nice.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 7 February 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
his new joint is fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYJuv82ME0&feature=player_embedded
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, 17 April 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh forgot about that racism shit above
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, 17 April 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw this vid a couple days ago and I dig it.
Never knew about the questionable tweets, but eh. Young guy saying dumb shit shockah.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 17 April 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude is 32.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, 17 April 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh hm, I don't guess I realized he was that old. Yeah, he should def know better by now.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 17 April 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
AMERICAN STANS OF WILEY STAND UP
i fucks w/ this new one
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 April 2011 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
someone knows how to bring the deep bass loop still thankfully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zlTEA1eeY
― Let me help you with your URL problems (blueski), Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i've got the map to your bodynot literally, in my mind there's a stenciland if i draw around the stencili can see your body formlookin just how it's meant to
lolwut
― Let me help you with your URL problems (blueski), Sunday, 8 May 2011 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
new album is really good. very to-the-point and no-nonsense.
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 May 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
dont want to hear wiley or any grime mcs doing sexual lyrics xpost
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
Is it basically straight grimey, like the last one?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
much better - yeah i guess it's grimey, though in wiley's inimitably fussy kind of way - very sparse beats, his voice and words are front and centre (though some of the beats - the DRUMS on "i just woke up"! - are really good in themselves).
he does grocery bags, lol. i don't think i even hate them any more, it was just that i hated drake's personality.
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
I don't owe you nothing, you don't owe me eitherI got a style that's golden like a retrieverI time travel, make you a believeryeah I'm a big achieverMCs pulling on my arm like a leverI don't wanna moan like a divabut it's me coming through the speakersloud and clear, I smoke the reeferzoning out, Wiz Khalifaif I was a mutant, I would have a power that came up high on the metreI got flows fast like a cheetahto my fans that know, I see yaback in the day when I started I had a heart in my chest, cold like a freezer
<3
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm awake now, reading the Sun newspaper25p, I'm a savermight be 20 on another dayface getting hairy, send for the shaverused to go to the park, Seftonhad my Salford Quays but I left 'emgot 'em back now, I got newer intentionssee far, looking at my pensionI'm awake, still, tourermy new haircut's sharp like a Boratell the barber watch my hairliiiiiine -so it don't recede fastergot my mind working hardergotta do it for the Gucc, for the Pradacall that money down the drain, but that's another saga
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I get put to the test like I'm not already chartingwanna be credible, Dr Martenyou don't see me skylarkingbut I'm still Regents Parkingtoday my work needs markingI wanna get a higher grade now, start laughingfly past 'em, I'm a dog barkingI'm quite visible like a side partingstop, tell me who's starting trouble?cuz I will get dark on the doubleI can string along a lyric, I ain't getting in a muddleI'm on the road like a puddlesouth to the north terminal, shuttleI connect east to south, Blackwall Tunnelsee me on the road, I bubble
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
so wiley has a new mixtape with whooo ( o o o o o ) kid( d d d d d) hosted by.... ashley cole WTF!?
― tpp, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
rofl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yglKv2ViI
― tpp, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
Wiley ft. Giggs & Ashley ColeWiley ft. Giggs & Ashley ColeWiley ft. Giggs & Ashley ColeWiley ft. Giggs & Ashley ColeWiley ft. Giggs & Ashley ColeWiley ft. Giggs & Ashley ColeWiley ft. Giggs & Ashley Cole
― tpp, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
NUMBER ONE
love the song too
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 August 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://thegrimereport.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/wiley-its-all-fun-games-till-vol1-2012.html
^very dope mixtape
― REV LION (The Reverend), Friday, 10 August 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
I find his level of output kind of exhausting these days but Heatwave is terrific. And totally not what I would have expected the first Wiley number one to sound like.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 August 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
"heatwave" is mad goofy to me, and not in a tinie tempah-ish way that kinda works. it's just structured weirdly.... it's like there are two choruses, but neither are particularly that great. the girl's part is pretty corny imo.
happy for him tho
― tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 August 2012 08:45 (eleven years ago) link
i will now listen to "if you're going out" for the next two hours
― tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 August 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
The girl's part is also a rip-off of Madonna's "Erotica."
Standard 2012 chart fare; sounds like a million other records, Wiley's lyrical outlook unchanged from a decade ago, i.e. Young Businessman Of The Year application form.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 10 August 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'M OUT OF THE YARD, I'M NEVER INSIDE
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Friday, 10 August 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
What other chart pop in 2012 has anything like that string sample? I would like to hear it if it exists.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 August 2012 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
the erotica steal makes it even better, takes some genius to recast that chilly, blank song as a feelgood summer jam
dunno why one would choose Ms D as one's stage name if one is not actually Ms Dynamite
― lex pretend, Friday, 10 August 2012 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
anony-motive is iirc an old finney coinage that best describes the magic appeal of the phantom ms d
marcello's clueless outlook unchanged from a decade ago
― r|t|c, Friday, 10 August 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sort of thinking it's probably not a conscious Erotica steal.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 August 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
― tauheed & cambria (J0rdan S.), Friday, August 10, 2012 1:45 AM Bookmark
^all this
― REV LION (The Reverend), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
It's All Fun And Games Till Vol. 1 is probably my favourite long-player of the year.
Also, his "Glam Freestyle" is probably my favourite song of the year.
Basically Wiley is running 2012 for me. Don't much care for the number one, but I seem to mostly like the stuff he gives out for free and I guess the guy has to eat, so good on him.
― Mercer Finn, Monday, 13 August 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite comedian is Michael McIntyre. I've got his ones on DVD. He's really funny, and he's the most current with his jokes. The life I lead, he sort of knows. He knows about the London Underground, do you know what I mean? He's got the craziest, the best observations.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
he threw a hissy fit at itunes and leaked his own album
(which is largely cobblers)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
wonder if the mistake he wanted corrected was listing j2k on 'my heart' cos he ain't on there now as far as i can hear
(i'd heard the j2k version on the radio and that tune would have been the pick of the bunch as was but i think they slowed it right down to uselessness to fit french montana on)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npI8zq_6YU
this is a certified spring jam and far beyond anything on the lp fwiw
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
i just boggled at "wiley featuring emeli sandé, j2k and french montana" too much to really hear the song
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 21 March 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
another unguided wiley album drifting listlessly by
you always wonder what his and dizzee's careers would have been like if it was wiley that had cage managing/producing/father figuring
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
How man of them are there now?
Even assuming he had the choice, Cage backed the right horse. It's not even that Wiley is mental to the point of being basically uncontrollable, he just doesn't have Dizzee's charm, either on record or off. There's just something about their voices as well, Dizzee can convey so much more. It's not that Wiley hasn't made great records but he'd never hit Dizzee-style beloved pop figure status.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah sure it's not a taking sides, i would never dispute dizzee being a rare talent with the edge over his generation, i'm just saying wiley's work has always cried out for an understanding editor when it comes to making that next step
besides it might not be the same charm as dizzee's but he still has more charm than most. much more in fact and certainly enough to be a pop star with
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
the other side of the question is for all dizzee's outrageous talent would he have ever got this far just by himself the same way his peers have had to? i don't think so
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I mean put him next to I dunno Wretch 32 or someone and the difference is obvious but I'm not sure the man exists who could do that. Crucially none of these other guys see themselves as svengali/mentor figures themselves.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
it's not even that cage might have done so much work for dizzee but that the lines of success are so fine that a wise word here a nudge there really can make all the crucial difference
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 March 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
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