Is this Wiley best freestyles ever?

Grime comes from Garage music, Jungle music and Dancehall/Bashment music. But all of these forms of UK music have origins in Jamaican British culture. Raggamuffin music.

Wiley didn't start it by himself but he was probably the most important figure in the creation of grime.

Wiley - 6 in da bloodclart morning

he was MC'ing over garage beats and the garage scene didnt want him involved, so he said fuck u ill make my own sound, hence "what do call it?"

Godfather Of Grime 👑 🔥

Back then, grime wasn't mainstream at all. That's why he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He peaked when radio wouldn't play grime and had to go pop to sell.

Crazy

Good reaction m8

love this freestyle

Agreed that he not getting the reconition he should from the todays youths but he got a OBE (award from the queen) for contibution to music.

He is west indian and his dad was a reggae artist - -- He is a genius.. he turned old school jamaican mc style to grime amazing

Check out his Vladtv interview to hear about his scar & just about him in general, it will be insightful for you.

Yeah dance hall,garage, hip hop

For time it was skepta wiley on the radio allways playing then pop arrived

Wiley/dizzy rascal and other were writing, fast rhymes to Drum and bass. The rhymes then sound like this flow on a uk garage beat. The flows just fit real tidy. "Fire in the booth Drum and bass special" if you're interested in drum and bass.

you might as well react to Wiley vs Kano - Lord of the Mics

Wiley smashed that and you do a great job breaking down the uk 🇬🇧 rappers Wiley the king of grime no doubt grime king 👑 savers 💯

Listen to the movement fire in the booth its sick

MF Doom was from the UK originally as well bro. I think a lot of Americans don't realise how big american hip-hop has been in the UK since the mid 90s its been as mainstream as it is in america, uk rappers were fully underground and got no radio play until the last 5-10 yrs. Grime originally came from a mix of garage and Jungle (similar to drum and bass music). Rapping first started in NY but originally it was called toasting (in Jamaica) when it was taken to america it was slowed down but when it was taken to the UK it sped up and thats now jungle music was born and was very big along with garage in the 90s

A guy called Durrty Goodz was on Wileys level back then. You can check out his FITB or check out his track Goofy which takes shots at drake for trying to leech off the uk scene

Bro, i noticed in from watching alot of your reactions, that you have never reacted to Wileys Crew, Roll Deep, where alot of things started, before dizzie left, roll deep were beefing with so so solid crew, which is where all the dizzie and wiley drama started (long story) but roll deep were huge for the grime scene, the stuff with dizzie is rare but u should def react to them

Literally one of the founders (but not the only one) of what is now known as Grime. He was one of the first to start taking old garage and dancehall samples and making new dubplates/beats from them, many still used today. When he first hit the scene there wasn't even a name for the genre, based on Garage at 140 bpm. Grime also draws heavily on both Dancehall and Hip Hop but maintains the same Garage bpm, he even has a legendary track from that era called "Wiley - Wot do u call it?". He is not and has never been the most lyrical but he has some of the best flows and dubplate originals in the Grime game. You also need to remember we had sick sound system spitters and hip hop rappers 20+ years before Wiley 💯🔥

Payasyougo were big in garage and thet were around when grime started to kick off

At the time of this freestyle Wiley ghetts and skepta where the best 2007/2008 times. Honorable shout to dot rotten as he was seriously leveling at this time

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Where did you get that Bugs Bunny hoodie?

Everybody fuck with wiley bro he the godfather of this whole shit man

Cannot believe that you think the 2nd beat was trash 😳 It's an absolute banging evocative classic.

Wiley was an MC on pirate radio n dnb n garage raves in the 90’s, mixed with uk hip hop and that is where Grime has come from

His influence was garage Bro he was in a collective called payasyougo,

Grime is a combination of Jungle Music, Garage Music and even House music..... Wiley's Eski beats...i believe was inspired due to the fact that Wiley's a Caribbean (Barbados, i think) who moved to England....where its *COLD* .....Wiley is a person who came from a Tropical climate who moved to an area where it gets cold (and even after 20 years of living in London......you can tell that he _still_ isn't used to the Cold!) when you see Richard Cowie receiving his MBE award....his teeth is chattering! I think the creation of Eskibeats was a result of Mr. Cowie coping with living a freezing climate.

The bpm is grime bpm which is 140bpm

I love when Americans do reactions I did the same when I watched it all the years ago he was really hungry then he went all in

Snap capone fire in the booth 👌

The Don

So solid Crew were also pioneers as they had a sound that was more garage but with rapping in English accents. Previously everyone who rapped tried to sound American.

Wiley = legend

Before Grime was Garage. So Solid Crew ( Where Asher D/Ashley Walter's came from) probably opened the gates for Grime/ UK urban in general. Check out So Solid - Oh No, 21 Seconds and They Dont Know.

Wiley don’t get the credit he deserves. Wiley is King

the whole of the UK was fucking with back then ngl, and I was around 9/10 then

Wiley back in the day was a different level MC

Grime merged from jungle, garage. So Solid Crew were the first sound of grime, Wiley, Dizzee, Roll Deep, Nastee Crew (Marcus Nasty, Nasty Jack, Griminal, DdoubleE, Ghetts). If youre looking for a documentary you got to check: RiskyRoadz. Any beats from the UK are influenced by Maniac production and Rude Kid. Maniac is 1 of the main producers from the begining who is still relevant with newer artists like DigDat, Unknown T.

Wiley’s from Bow E3, In East London 💯

God of grime.that is

This is true uk grime at its best, things have moved on a bit now with drill and other styles taking over but grime came from a mixture of scenes that were already going mainly garage which was a little more instrumental electronic, jungle which was kind of like drum and bass but with mcs on top, also uk hip hop which was around a long time before plus a mixture of american hip hop and Caribbean culture like bashment etc and a little bit of house music tempos, Wiley just took it to another level,

Wiley Wot U Call It? is the first track he made. It's a throwback to when they didnt know what to call it. Garage was the genre popular at the time. So you hear it's not garage. Is it two step? Urban? It eventually settled on Grime. But that is the start of it

If you want to know more about the history of grime this book is defo worth a read. Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime g.co/kgs/1BNdTz Its probably only one version of story but basically teenage DJs slimzee and genius who weren't in with the coked up dancefloor UK Garage sound in early 2000s set up Rinse FM pirate radio playing a darker garage sound and jungle mcs started spitting on it. Dancehall clashing culture mixed in and people like wiley started producing, called his sound eskimo or eskibeats. No one called it grime til much later hence wiley's 2003 tune 'wot u call it'. Wiley wasnt the only one but definitely one of main originators. Many pirate radio stations and crews started across London but centred in east London. Lots of it was about availability of pirated production software like fruity loops which led to bedroom producers creating those trashy sounding 140bpm beats but if you want to hear it done brilliantly check danny weed, ruff squad and loads of others. Wiley has always given younger artists a leg up and he did that with Dizzee Rascal whose 2004 self produced album won that year's mercury music award (best album of year in uk) which put him and grime into mainstream. Journalists called it grime because they had to give the dark garage sound a name. It's basically diy punk music made by poor inner city multicultural kids with influences from all over but obviously dancehall, European dance music and hip hop. Other mcs there at or near the start were nasty crew, kano, ghetts, jme, skepta, lethal bizzle, crazy titch, d double e, roll deep and absolutely loads of others but many of these have had lasting success. Wiley and others cashed in and went pop (fair play £) in mid to late 00s, many said grime was dead but some people stayed true to the sound and there has been a resurgence in last 5 years which has also shone the spotlight on other uk black/urban music like drill, uk rap and afrobeats scenes which have replaced indie rock as most popular sounds in uk now. Noone has ever really broken America, Stormzy or Dave might. My money is on dave too, he's a phenomenal talent.

Dizzee was Wiley's protoje so to speak. Grime was influence by UK garage and dancehall. Boy in da corner was the first grime album that went mainstream.

it stems from MC's wayy back rapping over UK Garage, Drum & Bass & Dubstep because Rap instrumentals from america was too slow and it was America's thing but most UK rappers just attempted to sound american and flow like americans then the generation of Wiley came along and decidied lets do our own thing lets rap at a faster pace with a different genre of beats influenced by Garage & dubstep then these MC's would go and battle rap for fun with this sound and the flow but Grime is so much more than just a genre it became most young black mens way of life it was a style an aura and a tool to go out rap other MC's then by this point the UK fans grew up with it lived it attempted to rap like these guys and started loving the UK scene and sound for what it was rather than just listening to Dr Dre Eminem 50 Cent all these guys who started becoming massive with MTV back in the day

Ye know what bro I never realised how shit the beats were man did man dirty 😂

Grime came out of a cross between UK garage and Jungle Drum and bass with spittin. fire MC's back then. and jungle was cross between dancehall ragga and hardcore. old school hardcore darkside.

East London

You need to react to wiley off the radar

Need to durrty goodz switching songs part 2 he raps from garage jungle into grime over all beats and flows is like 6 and half minutes long is epic and should also check out his beef with Wiley is sick 👌🏻✌🏻

140 bpm. Pure. Grime.

yo man really like you're reactions but could you turn your voice down slightly and the music up slightly xD Also that first beat is legendary wdym

It come from the streets

You may have missed the lyrics, patrol foot locker, ex brown shotter. Meaning he used to sell heroin

140bpm, I'm a G in

Wiley is a monster bro. I think a lot of younger folks don’t appreciate his legacy because Stormzy kinda smoked him in the beef.

Why is it hard for your boy to catch our accent? We sound so plain anyway, lol🤣

Bpm is 140 Bro, quick flows

140bpm Dun know!

Fully paused the best bar. “Your girlfriends not satisfied by you so she got a rabbit”

Dizzee and all roll deep sketchy, Eski boy (wiley) tinchy strider, Skepta, jme, jammer, all the OG's were in roll deep. They refined the eski beats Wiley produced into grime. Saw a flipping great gig at East River Park New York back in the day with roll deep, Dj cameo, Kano and Ghetto(Ghetts) back to back freestyle for 45 minutes straight. Jules Santana as well. Faith SFX. New York crowd weren't ready for grime. They rude af. Booed and everything lol. Used to have it on tape but it got chewed up. Gutted I was.

He's from Bow e3

Wiley started it all and skepta used to be wileys DJ lol

Wiley and Dizzee Rascal made Grime famous then Kano and Lethal Bizzle came shortly after who blew it up further then Boy Better Know blew up

Sup bro think i commented on your first wiley reaction. Gave a bit of history about wiley. Maybe give Roll Deep a listen its just one of many of his crews he started. Roll deep - when im era. Roll deep - badman They would be good start. Hes from Trinidad and Tobago Heres a good 5min document kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNGep9imlqnXfX0.html

check out skepta morgue or autopsy

Influenced from reggae and dancehall garage and rap

I don’t know why I’m going throw your videos and writing all this lol but How Grime started. Dance music was big and its also called garage but they were like our version of RnB because they had the big budget music videos and could go on tours but Wiley (who’s Jamaican and London has a big Caribbean and African population) wanted to make music that’s more relatable to what he sees in his surrounding which is grimy (that’s where it gets it’s name), he wanted it to be more lyrical than the dance songs like the HipHop but it’s also fast and beats are usually at 140 that’s why people nominally say Ghetts is the best also clashing is a big deal in Grime and if you see Beenie man v Bounty Killer on verzuz you can see we get the influence

ORIGINAL CREATOR OF UK GRIME.. NO QUESTIONS DO YOUR HOMEWORK LOVE ALL THE REAL PAYG NASTY ROLL DEEP EAST CONNECTION BOYZ IN DA HOOD.... EAST LONDON ALL DAY O. G

React to ghetts Westwood freestyle from 2009, will blow your head off

Wiley said he was influenced from reggae as his dad was a musician I think

Bow E3 East London

Wiley doesn't get the credit he deserves because grime is a niche underground genre, very few people have gone mainstream with grime songs. The problem grime has is it doesn't appeal to the majority, the lyrics are too fast for someone who doesn't frequently listen to it, the lyrics are creative and filled with so much slang that the majority of people don't understand it. If we take rap for example the African American and Hispanic communities are quite big minority groups and you rap at a tempo most people can understand. Where as the black British population is only 3% of the population and we speak a slang which is heavily influenced by our relation to the Carribbean. Meaning the white British majority just doesn't understand. A lot of white British people speak patwa because they grew up around us, but they just think it's English slang. 😂

That was a half hearted reaction bro. How can you talk without pausing? And you didn’t even react to the whole thing? Damn

Probably 140bpm

Check out new wiley stuff igloo freestyle is a new one just dropped the godfather returns to grime Grime came from a raw urban version of uk garage wiley done garage with dizzee rascal befor creating grime

Tommy gun was here 🇬🇧

he would be like one of the OG in the industry, but lets just say he aint no sell out so he may be one amongst the fans but the industry doesn't promote him.

He from bow

Influences are dancehall/ragga, dumb and bass music and hip hop

Please check silverdrizzle or dametalmessiah channels for the best experience of grime in its purest form. Its integral you do this if you want to understand our culture.. and how it was pioneerd. you'll learn so much from those 2 channels. From clashes, sets to beats and old dvd documentarys.

Them beats are grime bro.

Also the beat ain’t trash 😂 it’s eski beat it’s wileys sound

Chip v Yungen beef Chip v Bugzy

140bpm

180 bpm

If you want some history to Grime here's a pretty decent video from VOX, it would be dope to see you react to it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9Niprxzzc3DmIE.html

He got stabbed 21 times dude

Why do Americans not able to understand British urban accents!!?

Grime originated from East London Wiley the godfather, alongside Dizzee rascal; Kano; d double E; Crazy titch (who’s in jail) Many others. Then the like if Skepta; Ghetts etc came through, still same era. Grime started by Wiley and his turn called Wot you call it, was what started of grime.

140bps

He dont get the credit ca the new gen would rather listen to a rainbow haired snitch with a sex position tattooed on his head😂🤦‍♂️

Bruv you keep talking over it

Talked over the best bars ffs

Wiley kano jammer