i recently posted news of Dizzee Rascal's upcoming album, Math's and English, featuring Lily Allen and Joss Stone which will be set loose on June 4th 2007. As it turns out, Dizzee's neighbor, Wiley, has been finishing up a new album, Playtime's Over, that will be dropped like a bomb on the very same day! Wiley is credited as the founder of this style of music, which has become known as grime music, UK's successor to hip hop. Grime is essentially bass heavy electronic music with storytelling lyrics rapped over it. He released his debut album, "Treading On Thin Ice", in 2004, signed to XL Records the same year as Dizzee did, and then retired from rapping in January 2007. "Playtime's Over" is supposed to be his last solo album. Instead, he intends to focus on the record label that he started, the next generation of spitters and beat makers, and music production for other mc's.
For play by play action of how Playtime's Over is going to sound, from someone already listening to it, click over to lower end spasm where Bok Bok has been posting all the Wiley antics. If you're reading this deep, you may remember this music blog from my post last week when i passed on news of Wiley's retirement. Or possible retirement retraction. Or some other Wiley maneuver. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be able to read the transcript from the interview that Bok Bok had with Wiley about what adventure he will be choosing next. So bookmark that blog or keep watching here for the scoop.
