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New single & video - Tru Trilla "End the Day" ft Ruste Juxx & Julius Luciano of Shoe Gang
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dayomesaydayo
I remember downloading this on limewire. This was grime right here. The grime that i miss. Pirate radio. Distorted audio. Fruity loops beats. Bare man in one tiny room. Xl avirex jackets.
kerser
Everyone knows bro.
Meticulous
looks like a cat wearing a suit
Anderson
Whys he got a city tshirt on?
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He rocks an arsenal trackie regularly too
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Agony
He's football supporter fluid like Tulse, Toney and Cipher
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Covering groundbreaking grime white-labels, MC rivalries and his childhood in London – the 96-chapter book provides a rounded and candid portrait of the Eskimo innovator using lyrics, previously unseen photography, words from some of his closest friends and, of course, the first-hand retellings of Wiley himself.
In this exclusive extract, Wiley talks about the foundations of grime – framing his words around lyrics from his 2004 track Wot Do U Call It? which featured on the Treddin’ on Thin Ice LP. After the extract, get a sneak peek of a few personal photos included in the book.
© Penguin Random House UK
28. Wot Do U Call It?
‘Goodbye to the man who don’t like me
Goodbye to the woman who don’t like me
Goodbye to the fingers pointing at me
Goodbye to the promoters that hate me
Goodbye to the people that’s hassling me
Cos I’m sharp like a knife on the street.’
– ‘Wot Do U Call It’
Grime is raw.
Grime started in the city. It started in the estates.
It started with people who didn’t really have much. We lived in one of the poorest boroughs in England. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up in a good area. It wasn’t no war zone. We were all brought up properly, we all went to school, we all grafted. But it was gritty. We had drug dealers, prostitutes, murderers on our doorstep. But we also had Canary Wharf. We had something to aim for. When you’ve got nothing, you have to strive.
Not all of us had happy family lives. Our world, back then, was almost like another world. It was like we were on another planet. Our parents, our elders, they had their lives, their struggles, of course, but it meant that we were kind of left to it. No one spoke for us. No one spoke to us. And I mean no one.
When it began it was an opportunity to talk about what we knew, what was happening to us, or around us. The sound came from our situation. It’s a cold, dark sound because we came from a cold, dark place. These are inner-city London streets. It’s gritty.
We tried to get into garage, which was big back then, but even the garage crews didn’t want us. Everyone I looked up to let me down. We had no one to look up to.
So we took what we had and we worked with it. Bits of jungle. Bits of ragga. Bits of garage. In the end we created something different.
You hear people talking about the grime sound coming from another planet? Well, that’s because it does.
When it started grime was a young black man’s punk rock. MCing is basically the same as singing in punk – shouting on a beat to get a reaction. The good thing is that grime is beginning to spread. The grime nationality is rudeboy, now. And anyone can be a rudeboy, you get me. It’s not just for black kids any more. It’s for everyone: black kids, white kids, Indian kids, Turkish kids, Moroccan kids. It’s a release.
Grime is a group thing. It’s music that can be passed down. It needs people. It needs energy. Raw beats, raw lyrics. I think that’s what’s so key to grime. Everyone can do it. A little kid in Blackpool can start spitting. He’s going through exactly the same things that every kid is going through, and he can talk about it. That’s how it works. And when he’s eighteen he may be doing something. There’s another grime kid being born as we speak.
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"Me and my aunt June in 1979" © Penguin Random House UK
"Leader of the pack!" © Penguin Random House UK
"Me, my dad and my sister, Bow E3" © Penguin Random House UK
"My uncles, aunties and cousins at a family wedding" © Penguin Random House UK
"Me, my auntie June and cousin Damien at June's wedding in Poplar, east London, 17 May 1979" © Penguin Random House UK
Extracted from Eskiboy by Wiley, out in hardback on 2 November from William Heinemann. Preorder your copy.
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yhfam
Legend
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Everyone's Uncle
Theres a woman in a couple of the pics that looks like trim lol
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Gonna grab this in the crimbo sales
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Da Luv Doc
LoL at being black and accepting that shit. Hold right Benjamin zefoniya (or however you spell it)
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M.Dot
I've never really paid much attention to MBE's & things like that, so how do you get chosen/nominated for this.
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dub
feels weird how Wiley is getting so much props in retrospect, like 10-15 years after his achievements, because of people like Stormzy and Skepta being recognized now
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Thizz
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Drift
Rah
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Simply D
what "was" it, as its not showing anymore :s
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Grafter
Zephaniah i think
An true
Good to see recognition but bun the empire
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Simply D
TTKK
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kerser
Everyone knows bro.
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Grafter
I don't
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kerser
Everyone cultured**
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kerser
Here ... 5.27
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kerser
Roll deep >>>nasty
For vibes
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Anderson
Best bar in the history of grime
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