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	Wiley: Treddin' on Thin Ice - PopMatters Music Review
		Wiley has a much greater chance of falling squarely on the pop charts, partly because he manages keep humor, hook and originality perfectly juggled.
		Wiley builds backdrops out of butcher's cuts of symphony scraped to the bone and put back in the track like water flicked off fingers.
		That whiff of Ludicris is evident here where Wiley displays his ability to let the beat drop out from under him while he contintues to riff on the muscular grip of his widely strode vocal gait.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/w/wiley-treddin.shtml (1275 words)

	Defying the masters: creating anonymous, heroically scaled portraits of contemporary African-American males, Kehinde ...
		Wiley's figures are presented in graphic photo-realistic detail, while the backgrounds are relatively painterly.
		Wiley bathes his figures in a vibrant red glow, as if the background color were actually radiant.
		In Morfene (2003), which is atypically titled with the model's stage name (a misspelling of "morphine" that the rapper has tattooed on his abdomen), a grid of electric blue fleurs-de-lys, set against an equally bright red, creates a vibration of the sort generated by Bridget Riley's Op art paintings.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_93/ai_n13629221 (952 words)

	Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice
		Wiley not only opens up the audience to his amazing collection of beats, but shows his determination, rhymes and positive influence on his debut album.
		Wiley steps out of his light humoured attitude to give a positive, feel good tune, ‘Pick yourself Up’ and speaks of his years of dedication and mistakes along the way towards his dream on ‘I was Lost’.
		Wiley as well as Kano and J2K impress with their rhymes over the ‘futuristic’ sounds of keyboard synths on ‘Next Level.
	www.thesituation.co.uk /reviews/wiley_review.html (616 words)

	Wiley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wiley (rapper), a British rapper/ Grime MC Wiley College, a college in Texas founded by Isaac Wiley
		William Wiley, U.S. sailor in the First Barbary War and namesake of the USS Wiley
		Wiley Brooks, a former leading U.S. figure in the breatharian movement
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wiley (214 words)

	Wiley: Waiting for the end of the world - Entertainment - The Washington Times, America's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wiley says he marvels at this kind of technology -- and at the notion that people believe they'll be brought back to life by future medical discoveries.
		Wiley, who says he's always meditating on the threat of mankind's nuclear annihilation, was horrified by that possibility during the "Three Mile Island" accident.
		Wiley, whose world is threatened with nuclear and environmental havoc, the earlier artist confronted a universe of fire and brimstone, good and evil, suffering and torture.
	www.washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20050812-083451-6545r.htm (658 words)

	Guardian \| Wiley, Treddin' on Thin Ice
		Wiley prefers to call the genre in which he operates "eski-beat" but most commentators have opted to dub it "grime", a title which seems to fit a defiantly low-rent mass of jabbing rhythms, crude samples and rumbling bass frequencies.
		So, to describe Wiley as the Dizzee Rascal you can listen to without keeping a packet of Nurofen to hand is not to damn him with faint praise, merely to suggest that Treddin' on Thin Ice might have a slightly broader appeal.
		Wiley's production style is every bit as inventive as that of his protegé, but happily less reminiscent of having your face battered with a shovel.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4907660-110430,00.html (776 words)

	News : Historic Jonesborough Dance Society
		Event organizer, David Wiley, says that “you are who you are most of the time and this is a time to enter the make believe world for one night.” Halloween costumes are encouraged, but not required.
		She performed with a local rapper sword dance team and also mastered the art of several couple dances, including hambo, tango, schottische, and waltz.
		Wiley noticed contra dancing at some of the festivals in western North Carolina and decided to give it a try.
	www.historicjonesboroughdancesociety.org /site/news.php (3508 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Treddin' On Thin Ice: Music: Wiley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As the godfather of pioneering garage crew Roll Deep, Wiley is essentially the key architect of the stark MC-led strain of UK garage presently known as "grime", "sub-lo", or "Eski".
		Sure, Wiley is a good MC, but he seems to lack the all-consuming philosophy and breadth of narrative needed on a 15-track album.
		wiley's album is average at best but again quite good for the uk hip hop/ urban scene as the popularit of the uk scene is getting bigger by the day due to Mtv base, Channel U and Ben TV are just a few tv channels that are promoting uk hip hop.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Treddin-Thin-Ice-Wiley/dp/B0001GCMEA (1106 words)

	Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Wiley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roll Deep is led by the rapper/producer Wiley, Dizzee's former mentor and a man Pitchfork's Jess Harvell called, "grime's bedrock." Wiley isn't going to drop any jaws as an MC, but his production style is a thing of beauty-- Timbaland on a paranoid caffeine buzz, huge wobbly bass almost drowning out jittery nervous drums.
		Wiley: That's why Roll Deep, at the moment, is doing their album thing.
		Wiley: Yeah, they grew up on that American rap, and they used to even speak American with each other.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/feature/31316/Interview_Interview_Wiley (1176 words)

	Wiley (rapper) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wiley has created his own musical genre, which he calls "Eski", and which is largely associated with the Grime genre.
		Wiley was also a founding member of the Roll Deep crew.
		Wiley first became well known in the East London underground garage scene during the late 1990's, when he was a member of the Pay As You Go Cartel, who had some limited UK chart success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wiley_(rapper) (577 words)

	Remote Control - News
		UK rapper Wiley is set to follow in the footsteps of Dizzee Rascal as he releases his first single for XL Recordings on March 29.
		Wiley wants to call it Eski-beat, others are happier with Grime.
		The single is released on March 29 and Wiley's debut album follows in April.
	www.remotecontrolrecords.com /newsDetail.asp?NewsID=169 (122 words)

	simon reynolds talks about wiley, dizzee, and grime in general at stylusmagazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I am a sad person and I really really want to believe that was really Wiley and that everybody responded to him calling him Wiley 'cause they knew for certain that it was really him.
		yes it's really me, wiley, i think the problem a lot of people have believing that its me is cos they just cant get along with wiley, even though i try really hard.
		wiley, i own only one grime record, 'boy in the corner' by someone or other.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=6317544 (2086 words)

	Musicians - Wiley (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wiley (also known as Wiley Kat), real name Richard Kylea-Cowie is a British born rapper from Bow, London.
		Wiley produced the Eski sound (a Grime offshoot that is a mix of garage, hip hop and other sounds) which has now proven quite popular as an off-shoot scene to the UK Garage genre.
		Wiley was considered to be at ends with many members of the Garage scene prior to the emergence of Eski as an individual style of music.
	listing-index.ebay.com.cob-web.org:8888 /musicians/Wiley_(rapper).html (331 words)

	Christian hip-hop aims for mainstream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Things changed this summer as multiplatinum rapper Kanye West released the inspirational hit record "Jesus Walks," rapper-turned-pastor Mase returned to the hip-hop industry, and embattled singer R. Kelly churned out a lauded gospel album.
		Christian rappers are looking to ride a wave of acceptance for hip-hop with spirituality and meaning.
		As for Mase, a multiplatinum rapper who left the industry in 1999 to become a Christian pastor and returned this summer with a new album, most Christian artists sees his transformation as genuine.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/1013christianhiphop.html (945 words)

	SGVTribune.com - Assaulted woman recovering
		When the 42-year-old woman stopped to help, the driver of the Honda, a man in his 20s, physically assaulted her and got into the driver seat of her car, Wiley said.
		The woman attempted to stop the man and was dragged about 100 yards in the ensuing struggle, he said.
		She was taken to Huntington Hospital in Pasadena with serious injuries, including severe damage to an ankle and heel, which may have been run over, and cuts and bruises on her body, Wiley said.
	www.sgvtribune.com /news/ci_4576553 (274 words)

	JS Online:
		Wiley's sound is less abrasive than that of his countryman and protege Dizzee Rascal, who introduced "eski" here with his January debut, "Boy in Da Corner." "Treddin' on Thin Ice" is still raw, though.
		Eski rappers so far have not been preoccupied by the materialism infecting their American counterparts.
		Wiley is concerned about whether he talks too much on "Goin' Mad," and he comes off as a hungry connoisseur of baked goods on "Pies," which is about eating pie.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=255862&format=print (236 words)

	T-Bone MP3 Downloads - T-Bone Music Downloads - T-Bone Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first gospel act to incorporate hip-hop influences (though the trio rarely departs from standard pop/rock), dc Talk became one of the most popular groups in Christian contemporary music during the mid-'90s, when their fourth album, Jesus Freak, made the highest debut for a gospel act on Billboard's album charts.
		The first female in Christian rap music, MC Ge Gee was born in the Bronx and raised in Dallas, where her parents run an inner-city youth outreach that was the subject of the film The Cross and the Switchblade.
		In the middle of the rap fray, she wasn't a hard rapper, nor a pop one.
	www.mp3.com /t-bone/artists/34384/similar.html (267 words)

	KLUDGE MAGAZINE - Review - Wiley: Treddin On Thin Ice
		While much has already been written on Wiley as being the leader of this new style and scoring underground hits with this new type of music, after hearing both albums, one is hit by the fact that Dizzee has by far passed his teacher.
		He is better known as a producer then a rapper and it shows on this album.
		Wiley has made a slightly above average album, not great one at any means.
	www.kludgemagazine.com /reviews.php?id=434 (423 words)

	969theeagle.com: Event Guide Movie reviews, production notes, and more! - "Hair Show"
		Co-writer Wiley, who confesses to overcoming a strained relationship with her own sibling, added a page from her life story to the script.
		Wiley's first break came when her spec script for "Roseanne" grabbed the attention of several key studio executives.
		Born in Jamaica, West Indies, Wiley was raised in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.
	969theeagle.com /common/movies/notes/43700-1-full.html (4613 words)

	Treddin' On Thin Ice - Wiley - Buy @ SmokeCDs.com music cd store (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wiley's sound fuses elements of ragga, hip-hop and traditional music, creating a brand of elastic bass electronica you'd expect from the Warp stable, not some London rude boy.
		The title cut is possibly the most club orientated cut - a dark rhythm skips in double time as Wiley gets all psychotic and confused about just who he is, street hood or serious musician, with the schizophrenic happenings resulting in a brooding masterpiece.
		If you feel like you've heard everything in hip-hop, two-step and R&B before, then you simply must hear this, innovative and focused, it's an album from the underground that deserves a much larger audience, and it's influence will still be felt a long time from now.
	www.smokecds.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cd/35097?osCsid=74ao8dgqfpcqnud5q96e2e8sh1 (460 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Hey, Ricky, are we having fun yet?
		To gain the needed compensation for this mission impossible, you were represented at the time by a rapper named Master P, who also fancied himself a basketball player, when it was hard for most of the general populace to take him seriously as a musician.
		So you've been repped by a rapper, and then rapped by a ripper, then left in the crapper.
		Ditka traded a whole team for you, and then stood there and had his picture taken in a tux for ESPN The Magazine, while you wore a white wedding dress and looked queasy.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/wiley/020814.html (1581 words)

	Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice : album review
		Wiley serves up less of the brainless boasting "lovin' it, gunnin' it, fkin' it" attitude, and more of the "sort your st out then roll" (The Streets) school of "up against it" positivity.
		Like Mike Skinner, and former Roll Deep posse member, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley is stepping away from the pack to show a reality that can be bleak, brutal and bruising but ultimately human.
		His defence is the music and a determination in self-preservation that goes beyond guns, girls and bling bling glamour.
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/wiley.htm (635 words)

	Portsmouth Herald It: Rapper draws from experiences in war film
		You know what I mean, but that’s the way it is," the platinum-selling rapper said in a recent interview.
		He was open and friendly; not what you expect from a gangster rapper," Winkler said.
		So well that 50’s work in Morocco - where the film’s battle scenes were shot - persuaded Winkler to expand the rapper’s role, adding two additional scenes to flesh out his character.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/05302006/it/105319.htm (815 words)

	AllHipHop.com : Features
		Wiley: I don’t know about the mainstream, because I believe it takes years to form a scene.
		Wiley: The only difference, honestly, is that we’re twisting the language.
		Wiley: Of course, of course, of course, of course, of course, of course.
	www.allhiphop.com /features/?ID=1191 (1493 words)

	The Village Voice: Status Ain't Hood
		I'm not quite sure how this happened, but I guess Lady Sovereign is the one, the first UK rapper with a legitimate shot to cross over to the US mainstream, the only person to emerge from grime and find a place on a huge American rap label.
		She's a good rapper with strong presence and a distinctive voice and insane levels of novelty appeal (short, white, young, punky, female, goofy, bratty).
		Not too many American rappers have this guy's cool arrogance and impeccable timing and calm precision; it's a rare chance to hear someone who's already a star whether the world realizes it or not.
	www.villagevoice.com /blogs/statusainthood/archives/2005/12/kano_best_rappe_1.php (826 words)

	Rapnews.co.uk
		The label is said to be keen on Wiley releasing 'Playtime Is Over' in February 2007, and hopes to support their artist in helping him put out an LP which fully captures his sound with no comprise or major label restraint.
		This is a big move for Wiley, real name Richard Cowie, whom isn't short of self promotional strategy, but will certainly gain from the huge industry push which the Ninja Tunes driven record label give all their products.
		Past Wiley releases include the debut album 'Treddin' On Thin Ice' which was put out by XL Recordings and considered a shortcoming of Wiley's abilities and potential.
	rapnews.co.uk /?p=919 (333 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Wiley, Nathan: Nathan shows his Wiley ways
		Wiley, who opens for Sarah Slean tonight at the U of C's Rozsa Centre, mixes up different roots music styles to come up with something that at times has a gothic country folk rock feel to it.
		There are echoes of Blue Rodeo to what he does, but his diverse influences, such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Nick Lowe, also poke through on Bottom Dollar, which he wrote, produced and played many of the instruments on.
		For that reason, Wiley appears to be set on a course for a career standing just outside of the mainstream -- which is fine by him.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/W/Wiley_Nathan/2002/11/29/751836.html (479 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Sound of 2004 music poll revealed
		Keane, from Battle, East Sussex, came top of BBC News Online's Sound of 2004 poll of UK critics and broadcasters to find the best new groups and singers.
		Rapper 50 Cent topped last year's list and went on to become a global star.
		Almost 60 influential opinion-formers in the UK - from magazine editors to radio playlisters - were canvassed for the survey.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/entertainment/3369355.stm (473 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Wiley, Nathan: Wiley like a fox
		With an impressive new debut album Bottom Dollar in one hand, and a recent win in CBC Radio's "Definitely Not The Opera's "Big Break" contest, the Summerside, P.E.I., native's run out of dives to play on the East Coast.
		A couple of years ago, he entered CBC Radio's "Big Break" talent scout contest "on a whim." Wiley, 25, beat out 100 other entrants to win the whole shebang, and shot to pop prominence on the East Coast.
		But in the rest of Canada, Wiley remained an enigma, that is until Bottom Dollar was released last May.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/W/Wiley_Nathan/2002/10/09/751837.html (391 words)

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