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Wiley

February 2024

  • Wiley pictured in 2021.

    Grime pioneer Wiley stripped of MBE

    Rapper and producer posted antisemitic comments to social media in 2020 and 2021, and was later charged with assault and burglary

January 2022

  •  Marcus Rashford (left) and Jesse Lingard at a team training session in November.

    Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard condemn antisemitism after photo with Wiley

    England footballers make statements after photo with rapper, banned from Twitter and Facebook for antisemitic posts

September 2021

  • Rapper Wiley will appear at Thames magistrates court on 13 September.

    Wiley charged with assault and burglary of kickboxer friend

    Rapper known as ‘godfather of grime’ accused of breaking into Ali Jacko’s home, reports say

August 2020

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    After Wiley, I didn’t have a fight on my hands for once. Why did that feel so weird?

    Hadley Freeman
  • Rita Ora

    Rita Ora and Labrinth join music’s protest after Wiley’s antisemitic rant

July 2020

  • Wiley performing in 2018.

    Wiley refuses to withdraw antisemitic Twitter comments

  • Owen Jones

    Tackling racism on social media is just the tip of the iceberg

    Owen Jones
  • Wiley performing in 2018.

    Wiley's Facebook and Instagram accounts deactivated after antisemitic remarks

  • Wiley Performs At O2 Academy Brixton - London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: Wiley performs at O2 Academy Brixton hours after recieving his MBE from the Duke of Cambridge at the 2018 New Year Investitures ceremony on March 2, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Ollie Millington/Redferns)

    Wiley's racism flowed because social media is a petri dish of hate

    Nish Kumar
  • Chief rabbi accuses Facebook and Twitter of complicity in antisemitism

  • Government must ramp up efforts to counter online hate, Labour says

  • Police investigate grime artist Wiley's antisemitic tweets

  • Wiley posts antisemitic tweets, likening Jews to Ku Klux Klan

June 2020

  • Wiley

    Wiley: The Godfather 3 review – grime's patriarch bids farewell (again)

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  • Wiley

    Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out'

    After a tumultuous year, the godfather of grime explains his beef with Drake, Stormzy and ‘England’s golden boy’ Ed Sheeran – then announces his retirement

April 2020

  • Richard Kylea Cowie, aka Wiley.

    Listener's digest
    Wiley: where to start in his back catalogue

    In Listener’s Digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Next up: the godfather of grime whose erratic genius has inspired successive generations

May 2019

  • Matty Healy of the 1975 performing in Charlotte, North Carolina, May 19 2019.

    The 1975 win two major awards at 2019 Ivor Novellos

    Pop-rock band win songwriters of the year and best contemporary song, with Ben Howard and Idles collecting other big prizes

September 2018

  • Darren Dixon, AKA D Double E.

    D Double E, grime's nearly man: 'I haven’t been able to prove myself'

    Skepta hailed him the ‘greatest grime MC of all time’ but Darren Dixon has struggled to break into the mainstream – can his solo debut album change that?

May 2018

  • Wiley playing at Brixton Academy in March.

    Biopic of grime pioneer Wiley in development

    Trespass Against Us director Adam Smith will direct story of the Bow MC who rose to the top of the charts
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