Audiobook Eskiboy by Wiley
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Vocal Characteristics
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (England - Cockney, Estuary, East End) British (General)Transcript
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eggs rolling, deep, scratchy. I've been doing music since forever. For me, it begins with marriage. It was those emcees inspired us. There were less vocals on the track, so there was space for us to do a little thing. It was just us kids from around the area. Really. We started out just mimicking what we heard on the radio. I'll be doing Creed and PS GS voices spit in their lyrics as a way of getting into the music is how I learned to match a B to stay in time. I didn't actually meet Wiley through music. We met on a football pitch. Barlow Park. I was 13, the youngest on the team, so I didn't really have a position. I just ran where people told me it was on the other team. I remember him being actually really good while he's five years older than me, which now is nothing but any fell like miles between us, our bunk off school of law. So when I did actually turn up, everyone thought I was a new kid. It's not because I was bad or anything. I was just shy. I think that's why I was drawn to D. Jane. There's Dex between you and everyone else. I didn't want to go to school. I just wanted to go up to my bedroom and mix, put the headphones over my ears and go into my own world. I started doing radio stations like Flavour FM and that this was when I was about 15 while he was on rinse. But I had a show with his cousin, Biggie Pitbull. I was his deejay on. We'd start getting pretty good when we were around the right people. Nasty crew had just died, so we got his attention, and one day he rung me up and asked if I wanted to join roll deep. That's the first time I really knew that I was sick of what I do. That was an amazing Funchal. It was like getting an upgrade. Me and Biggie went over to rinse, which caused a bit of an upset with the rest of our crew. Our guests Wiley, for we were just bear to this day, some of flying squad will say you should have stayed with us. We could have made it happen, and I'd be like, Sure pay as you go, came first. So obviously I'd heard champagne dance and know we and all that. I'd seen the video. I'd seen him get big. I looked up to him, but I wasn't actually aware of the fame and the chart positions the money that was there to be made. I was just into the music at some point. Wiley and float down, decided to move away from all that and start roll deep. They wanted to make their own crew. It was a real D I Y vibe with roll deep flow down, and Wiley would come up to my bedroom when I was bunking off school and just start rapping over the beets. I played them. It was all vinyl, like Garrett instrumentals, white labels. We'd record tapes and listen back to him. Here. How good we were gain. That was the original star, the two of them in my room when I should have been in class. The report was incredible. It was inspirational to be around. I watched what they were doing so closely their patterns, their flow there might control, and it made me want to do it, too, So I would write a little lyric. I'd say a little bar. I used to be scared of him seeing I was like, Oh, how are people gonna take me then? I got my confidence because of seeing those two come up, I found my own voice. It wasn't as easy to become an emcee back then. We didn't have sound clad. We had to work hard to find the records and there wasn't anyone to listen to us. It's not like today where someone retweet something and suddenly you're working with over. Yo, we had to graft. We'd be up in my room for hours and hours with FedEx just looking for a song that was good enough to put lyrics over. We didn't care about the money. Then maybe you lose a bit of a passion. When the pay cheques start coming in, it becomes a job. Wiley was that person who get me in the studio, either with him or booking me my own time. He brought me out of myself, really. My dad had just passed away and I was sort flown around, dragging my feet, hitting the top of a wall with a stick. I was at that age where if I didn't have a music. All the right people around me, I would have been in gaol. I would have done something stupid. While he was like a brother to me. When I was struggling with rent, he'd say, Don't worry, scratch. I got these.