Wiley

[lankeela]

Ok who else had to go and look up who this is?

[MargoTester]

Me. Grime artist?

[Mamyalynne]

Grime isn't a favourite genre of mine but I know the name.

[mushroom25]

isn't this Wiley?
https://newlooneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote

[Mamyalynne]

I presume you had more context than you have given here.

[Mozz71]

He was around before Grime was well known.

Good for his management company. Mayby they could help Sir Keir out?

[lankeela]

Just going from headlines on BBC about Wiley being dropped by management and comments that I just had no idea about.

[Mamyalynne]

The article gives the details.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53536471

[webbo3]

Antisemetic grime artist

[birdie1971]

Me! I did too.

I didn't know what a "Grime Artist" was. I assumed it was someone who painted pictures with their own... well, you know... that.

But apparently, this isn't the case. They create 'music' by "spitting lyrics" that rail against the 'system' and that are 'urban' and 'real'. They do this while earning literally millions of pounds from the very 'system' that they embrace but publicly despise.

How progressive of them.
How 'real' of them.

How hopelessly, tragically, laughably, hypocritical of them.

[birdie1971]

Oh, and now I learn that Mr Wiley is an anti-Semitic cretin who has been banned from Twitter for seven days. That'll learn him.

There's nothing like a ticking off from Twitter to effect a fundamental change in one's opinions. It's simply a given.

Twitter chastise you; opinion checked and changed. Bish, bash, bosh. Job's a good un. New leaf turned over, slate wiped clean.

[tomus42]

//There's nothing like a ticking off from Twitter to effect a fundamental change in one's opinions.//

They're not trying to change his opinions, they're just trying to stop him posting them on their platform, which they've done. If he persists, I expect they'll ban him again, perhaps permanently.

[birdie1971]

tomus42 - “They're not trying to change his opinions, they're just trying to stop him posting them on their platform, which they've done. If he persists, I expect they'll ban him again, perhaps permanently.”

No! Really!?!

;-)

[Mozz71]

Considering the damage done to his career, I would expect a Twitter ban to be the least of his concerns.

[emmie]

i had heard the name, but that is about it. Just another cretin with too much to say..

[ynnafymmi]

Perhaps he is a member of Momentum.The members of this sect go in for that sort of thing.