WILEY GOES "IN" ON TINCHY AND CHIPMUNK

 

The UKs Tinchy and Chipmunk.  Wiley not feeling their latest material!

I thought these lot were all mates??? It just goes to show "Aint no such thing as MATES in this industry!"

Grime star Wiley has claimed that fellow artists including Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk have abandoned their roots.

The rapper, who reached number two with single 'Wearing My Rolex' last year, claimed that underground movements in other genres have been more commercially successful without selling out.

"If we'd all stayed together we could have seen a bit more power," he told the Daily Star.

"Hip-hop and drum and bass acts stay together more."

Earlier this year, the 30-year-old reportedly fell out with hip-hop trio N-Dubz, claiming that they were "competition".

Wiley releases new single 'Take That' on December 28.

I have to say, that I agree with Wiley.  I feel that many of the artist from the Grime/Hip Hop UK scene create music which you can tell deliberately ticks all the boxes.  They sign to some of these record labels that pressurise them to SELL SELL SELL and they lose that "grittiness" that they had when they first came onto the scene.  I for one hate anything that is to "deliberate". 

They just need to do what they had been doing in the first place, which is what made people fall in love with them.  Good music, is good music, it becomes popular because it is "good music".  Nothing more, nothing less.  If you try to go down that "obvious" commercial route, people can see it a mile off, it takes away from that raw creativity that made the artist hot in the first place.