Wiley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wiley
Occupation	Rapper
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1979(1979-01-19)
Age	45
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Wiley Biography

Wiley is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on January 19, 1979 in London, England, United Kingdom. English rapper who gained fame for his part in the group Pay As U Go, famous for their 2001 smash track, “Champagne Dance.” As a solo artist, his name was coined “The Godfather of Grime” as a pioneer in the genre.

The grime legend and his fellow He and fellow grime legend Dizzee Rascal worked together in the Roll Deep collective. collaborated in The Roll Deep collective.

Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, MBE (born 19 January 1979 in London), better known by his stage name Wiley and in his early career Wiley Kat, is a British grime MC, rapper, songwriter, DJ and record producer from Bow, East London. He is regarded as a key figure in the creation of grime music and often labelled the “Godfather of Grime”. In the early 2000s, he independently released a series of highly influential eskibeat instrumentals on white label vinyl, most notably the first in the series “Eskimo” and rose to fame as a grime MC both for his solo work and for material released with his crew Roll Deep.

When Cowie was a teenager in the early-1990s, he began to sell crack cocaine and heroin. Cowie was introduced to drug dealing from a DJ friend who was making a lot of money at the time. Cowie stopped dealing drugs when a local drug dealer who was much older than him began to threaten him and his friend. Cowie began producing music after he stopped dealing drugs as an alternative way to make money. Cowie started as a DJ, and eventually began rapping, incorporating garage music and drum and bass into his produced instrumentals which led to the creation of the first ever grime beats such as “Eskimo”, produced in Christmas of 1999 or 2000 and officially released in 2002. He broadcast his productions over pirate radio stations such as Rinse FM. Initially Wiley went by the name DJ Wildchild, until a woman from Kool FM began using the name Wildchild herself and surpassed Wiley in popularity. As a result, he changed his name to Wiley Kat, a reference to a Thundercats character, and later simply Wiley.

He was born Richard Kyle Cowie. He has two daughters.

Wiley Net Worth

Wiley is one of the richest Rapper from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wiley 's net worth $6 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His birthplace was in East London and got his beginnings in groups like SS Crew and The Ladies Hit Squad. He was before was known under the aliases of Wiley Kat and Eskiboy.

Also, he was a part of various music groups, including Boy Better Know and Roll Deep.

Cowie was born on 19 January 1979 in Bow, East London. He is of Trinidadian and Antiguan descent. Cowie’s father, Richard Cowie Senior was a reggae artist during Cowie’s youth in the 1980s and introduced Cowie to early hip-hop such as The Sugarhill Gang. Cowie’s interest in music began when his father introduced him to the drums. Cowie moved around London a lot as a child with his father before moving to Chatham, Kent to live with his grandmother when he was ten. Cowie spent a year in Chatham and described it as a bad time, saying “I just wanted to go and live with my dad. I felt abandoned.” Cowie eventually moved back to Bow to live with his father when he was eleven years old.

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Who is Wiley Dating?

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In 2004, Wiley released his debut album, Treddin’ on Thin Ice on XL. Singles from the album include “Wot Do U Call It?”, a record questioning what name should be given to his music, and “Pies”. Many reviews, including that by Pitchfork Media, made comparisons between Wiley and his previous labelmate Dizzee Rascal, who had achieved success with Boy in Da Corner the previous year. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian noted the “comically polarised” fanbase Wiley had accrued; “At one extreme, its sonic experimentation has attracted the kind of people who run music blogs… [where] lengthy essays are posted on issues as the differentiation between Humean and Kantian views of motivation in the lyrics of Bonnie Prince Billy. At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in an impenetrable mix of street slang and patois.”

Facts & Trivia

Wiley Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Wiley celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

In May 2008, Wiley found mainstream chart success with the hit single, “Wearing My Rolex”. The instrumentation (such as the slower, house style beat and lack of sub bass) caused some unrest within the Grime scene, as Wiley had previously vowed that he would never change his origin to break into the mainstream. In the same month, Wiley released his fourth album entitled Grime Wave, which was described by The Times as a “very pre-Rolex album. With its roots firmly based in the harsh, bass-heavy rhythms of the scene”. This album was followed by See Clear Now in October 2008 which included the mainstream hits “Wearing My Rolex”, “Cash in My Pocket” and “Summertime”. See Clear Now took Wiley in a mainstream direction. Despite its success, Wiley has disowned the album as he was “very angry” with the label Asylum, about the production and also unhappy about his management at the time. Wiley then left the label.