"between the boasting and the bitterness, is it any wonder Grime never really took off? "
I shall assume that Wiley pitch you made to the Grauniad wasn't accepted then Dan?
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2080159,00.html
psuedo-omniscient wench. like you have a clue.
Wouldn't be surprised if this review was a taste of what's to come from the Dizzee and Wiley album reviews in the mainstream music press. Dizzee has moved on and up and has taken on loads of external influences and now sounds like rock bands we know and like whereas Wiley, well, he's still doing grime, innee? And no one likes grime anymore...
not to be over critical but like most wiley bars from the last couple of years, most of the album sounds rushed. but then thats how he likes to work and i dont think his heart is really in it anymore so.... like i said before, i dont mind that hes decided to retire from emceeing.
The article was just very arch really. I'm a bit fed up of people who think moaning is automatically funny.
Yeah i hate the fact that Dizzee is being presented as having moved on from the juvenile dead-end of genre of Grime into some fantastic, eclectic modern urban music and Wiley is still stuck in 2004.
what i wanna know though is why oh why hasnt the skepta album been released? was listening to some of his sets in the last week - hes one of the best and has been for the past few years. there really should be something more from him.
im not so bothered about the workrate. hes just better. thats what counts. id rather he didnt release 5 million mix-cds of varying quality in case it ruins it. but one album or an EP or something would be nice. maybe its better he doesnt release it actually - might not be as good as we all thought. not heard him 'singing' although i did hear newham gens do a sing song thing the other week which was a bit weird lol. hopefully they dont make a habit out of it (although it was kinda funny).