Wiley Interview

[Dpleezy]

There are very few people who can legitimately claim to be responsible for creating new genres. Wiley is one such dude. I know a lot of heads on AG don't feel Grime, but it's worth reading the interview just to get an insight into the independent music scene. Wiley resisted the pressure from majors to commercialise his sound with RnB or American Hip Hop and it paid off for him...

http://dot-alt.blogspot.com/2007/03/wiley.html

[Ævenger©åmÞ]

nice interview! the eki boy is a true legend. no matter what hiphop purists wanna say about grime, these guys will kill any american oriented rapper in a freestyle battle.

[Last of the old AG Hittaz]

I dunno if I would consider Wiley as the creator of Grime but he is a great producer. As an MC ? Probably not, but if you listen to his during the Pay As U Go days, he had the charisma to be one of the best Garage MCs. Some people would trace the root of Grime with the So Solid Crew or The Heartless Crew. During the late 90s, Garage started to transform from it's House origins to a Hip-Hop and Drum and Ba** sound.


But back to Wiley as an MC, if he was to battle any American Hip Hop artist, he would probably win.