Why is wiley called eskiboy

So we lost Dizzee after this. It turned out that he was out on his moped, and ran into another group of boys from one of the crews. You know what I mean? So after me and this other boy did what we did, they came back and found him. Just out in the wilderness. It should be noted that he —sort of - denied the allegations in a recent interview. Even his forays into pop such as Wearing My Rolex and Heatwave are as much about changing the shape of pop music itself as they are about him changing his sound for the charts, and 20 years into his career, his influence is only denied by the cloth eared or belligerent.

We came out of the ashes together and made a future. Dizzee and Wiley in He was treated for wounds to the back, buttocks and chest at the Napa Olympic clinic, where he was kept under police protection until he discharged himself. The Guardian report stated how two individuals from a promotion company working in association with So Solid Crew in Ayia Napa pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and possession of knives.

But the person they found was Dizzee. The thing we done the next morning led them to go looking for us, but see him and stab him. I know something started. But you lot carried it on the next day. Wiley and Dizzee Rascal. In his autobiography, Wiley opens up more about the incident.

The show got inundated with calls. Wiley sold copies of the tune direct to record shops in what would become his signature flood-the-market, record-shop-as-cashpoint style.

Teebone was hooked up. The record charted at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, and the crew were sent out to fulfil their promotional duties.

They were brought variously onto Pay As U Go shows and tunes and, gradually, morphed into a separate entity. Before there was grime, there was Eski. The music was undefined, unshackled from garage and motored almost entirely by young inner-city kids in their teens or very early twenties.

It shaped a whole music scene, the radio, the clashing. It shaped everything. Now, as men, you can run a scene better — with some maturity. Instead of working within the existing template of garage, he went deep inside and changed the DNA instead. All the weight in the track - especially the Eski ones - comes from the strings, the bass strings and the square waves.

Zomby, Logos, Boxed: it all comes downstream from Eskimo. The releases hit an experimental and populist sweet spot, says Clark. Him and Slimzee slipped in these really weird, avant-garde records to 3, Sidewinder ravers, while Heartless Crew played bashment and vocal garage.

If he started his own label to ensure full creative and financial control, then he started Eskimo Dance with a similar rationale. He realised early that we could do it ourselves, so that we held the power.

It had a long, thin room, and a small stage with a DJ booth upstairs. With Eskimo Dance, he made it the showdown. He made it so people were interested in the MCs. Eskimo Dance was a creative, high-energy pressure cooker where MCs would bundle on stage, get hyped and splurt into the mic; an intermittent, aggy apprenticeship in top-flight grime for everyone involved. Grime was brand new and everyone was clashing.

You had all the goons, tonnes of girls: a really mixed crowd all packed into this place.