Wiley on Azealia Banks Trashing U.K. Hip-Hop, Language Barrier in Music 

Most of the US ppl tarnishing UK rap jus cant relate to the culture, ppl hate on what they don't understand

Wiley don't need USA approval

Mexican American here. I love Wiley. Man's a legend

I love the English accent I'm American. I actually gave their music a chance and I love it. It's it's own genre and I respect it

You can tell when dizzy said talk to Wiley at the end, Wiley straight up respected dizzy for that.

Wiley is a legend

If you haven't seen Wiley freestyle you're not qualified to have an opinion on UK hip hop.

I'm glad we've grown to realise we don't need acceptance from people who have Donald trump as their president

yep , yep , YEP, YEP, Yep , ............yep

What would Slim Jesus think of Azealia Banks Trashing U.K. Hip-Hop?

Wiley hit the nail on the head there . Are music isn't shit , it's just the language barrier. Also we shouldn't look for acceptance from American hip hop . Just do are own thing and if people from different countries like the grime then that's good . If some don't that's ok . Every one has different tastes in music .

Never understood this divide. To me UK and US hip-hop can be good and can be bad. If the beats good and the MC is on point, the music is good. Regardless of the accent

3 years later UK sound is very dominant in the USA. I love the cross over ting, hope we see more of it

if this nigga say yep yep one more time 😂😂😂

Vlad straight up held Wiley hostage for these interviews .

Wiley is correct, you have to target the people that's listening and feed them. Extras is a bonus. It's an interesting interview.

The Yep God

I'm from the UK and I don't like Grime but I respect Wiley he's an inspiring guy

UK scene is 10x better than US scene right now, all USA artist's are boring auto tune boring ass rappers, even ask drake trying to get in with dave and giggs hahahaha!

Didn't Azealia Banks work with shystie and her only big song was big in the UK rather than her own country. bite the hands that feeds her

I'm glad he & Dizzy are still alive and got their time to shine & live their truth through their music...they've put that work in been through alot and now they're legendary at their craft #Bless

Wiley is a legend and record holder for saying 'yep'.Overall great and interesting interview .Watched all clips till now!!!

I think why so many people in America look at British rap as a joke is not just because of people’s misconceptions about a British accent being too proper, or tea and biscuits, but really the content of their songs. One big example I hear all the time is “I can’t take it seriously because they’re talking about shooting people and guns but guns are illegal in the U.K.! It would be like some dude acting all hard and talking the talk but brings a knife to a gunfight! It’s ridiculous!” Among many other opinions. I personally don’t mind it. They got some sick beats!

And Godfather turned out to be one of the best albums in grime history. Fucking energy, legend

damn I wonder Americans rap in English I wonder where English Comes from

hip hop is an art form everybody can do it anywhere if doesn't matter

azeliea banks needs a slap

Wiley - Speakerbox. 'Nuff said.

Hip Hop is hip hop. I love most of the UK artists that I have reacted to recently. I can understand most of them better than most of the mumble rap that is being force fed to the country.

Imagine if Us hip hop started now we'd all think its shit and it wouldn't get ratings over here lets be honest.

Stop calling Grime 'UK Hip Hop'!

Loved the end bit. Thank you Dizzee, Wiley and Mega for the music

This is a weird comparison but check this.... When people rap they usually rap in their dialects (unless ur fakes like Iggy etc.) But when ppl SING...they almost 99% of the time sing in an AMERICAN ACCENT...(save for a few UK aritists, Lily Allen, Ed Sheeran etc.)... Interesting...

we need to clear this up we never really did hip hop our genre is grime be proud of that! hip hop was invented in new york it spread out to American urban culture, no one does hiphop greater than the yanks, no one does dancehall greater than jamaicans accept that fact, stop suffering from an identity crisis, technically listening to our beats its grime format using the terminology hip hop is wrong, embrace and be proud of your own modern day genre

Wiley is on a Level... Always has been always will be.. Every time I hear an eski Beat it still makes me think Jeeeez !!

This guy made his own scene for the UK that says it all REAL LEGEND

that was the best one, finally Vlad not on some bs and just having a conversation

is Eski finally making it over here? I lived in England for a while, got turned onto him...he's quite good...ROLL DEEP

I agree when im from england. If i hear a german artist i immediatly think nahhhh. But i dont care where your from a HIT IS A HIT.

well said wiley; especially the part where he emphasises the use of certain references relevant to the UK

Americans borrow the English language and then act like British people are the ones that sound strange haha

I really rate Wiley . Even watching these interviews from all the U.K. Artist interviews, he comes across the best

The godfather of yep

Nelly Furtado from Canada, 10 years ago!

What i love about GRime, all the artists love to collaborate

i swear the comments are killing me i didn't realise how much Wiley said yep yep yep 😂😂😂😂😂

I think Wiley was so please that vlad said that about dizzee at the end. I would love for them do do somthing. But vlad would claim he brought Wiley and dizzee back together lol

The real UK hip hop scene gave up trying to get recognised years ago and still does.

So glad Dizzee said what he said at the end

need to do research on this guy thanks to the comments seems like a bad ass freestyler..

I’m American and I love uk rap I mess with Wiley and all of them Kano there all fire

Sick interview, start to finish. What a don.

as an american, i understand grime and hip hop are 2 diff genres. BUT american hip hop artists today have NOTHING on grime artists. Grime rappers put their heart and soul into their work and technique. Don't fuck with grime, especially if your bars cant back you up.

I'm more hip to wileys music than i am azealias music... and im from Cali...was a big roll deep fan.. dizzy,kano,lady sovereign etc..i fucked with a lot of UK artist.happy to see skepta getting some shine in the U.S.

People like what they like. I’m starting to like UK hiphop. I don’t notice the accent that much anymore.

We don’t have Hip Hop here in the uk. It’s either grime, uk rap or drill it’s sad we don’t have Hip Hop here in the up cos there’s a lot of people that have been influenced by Hip Hop but the uk hasn’t provided a platform for Hip Hop here in the Uk.

its more than language barrier its culture barrier, singers dont tie themself to a culture but rap almost has to do so

Love and respect to Wiley , a true pioneer , he will always be the don

Wish I had a quid for every time he said yep

The U.S. took hiphop from jamaican soundsystem culture. LOL at all your american accents spittin!! :)

Wiley speaks the truth

I fuck with the UK scene heavy. Even before Drake featuring Giggs. They just need to keep doing there own thing until it catches on out here in the states.

Sorry to say, but a lot of Americans and American rappers who don't like UK rap are simply representing their imperialist culture. Hip hop may have come from the US ghettos, but those rappers still have the same imperialist mentality that those war hawks in Washington have. Manifest Destiny - ghetto style. America must dominant at all costs.

I don't think its about a language barrier. its about the beats, the production in the UK on some grime has changed it seems. I think grime didn't have that mass appeal, simple as that.

There needs to be gateway songs for people. They need to hear certain songs first to adjust their ears to be able to enjoy the raw shit. Like how eminem tuned alot people into rap. Like how dizzee tuned people into grime.

the reason american's don't get uk hip hop and grime is because there minds cant handle it, there to used to watered down baby rhyming now, take all the yaughty's and 22 savages for example! we don't have weak mumble rappers because were not stupid

Watch Stormzy live from Roskilde, he is huge in Scandinavia

#yep

UK rap just doesnt hold a candle to American rap, never will 🤷🏼‍♂️

Fam why is Vlad pushing for this UK/US collab? We don't want no one from the US on a Wiley album this is Grime not hip hop we're good over here.

Being from the US, i like grime and drill because the lyricism and pace and flow in the uk seems to be better atm. Grime sounds very electronic compared to us rap but drill is very much like trap so i dont see what the issue is beside preconceived notions of uk being fancy. Thats just historical, because were the US and we broke away. Canadian rappers dont sound different at all and drake is king so yeah. I would love to see more people get into uk rap, being in the NYC area ive noticed the huge influence jamaicans have had on both the NY scene, London scene and hip hops creation in general. Anyway, keeping doing your thing guys! I got family in illford and i love football culture so that helped me get into it OD.

You Should reupload this due to the beef with Stormzy

It's good to hear the respect between Dizzee and Wiley, too much of this "they hate each other its beef" bullshit, real dons of the UK music scene, regardless of what path they took.

No one cares bruv, she got roasted by a 14 year old from disney

Wiley looked very happy when vlad said dizzie told him to interview him 🎵

I tried to get the UK Hip Hop a chance but I can't understand most of the words still tho ll like to travel to London and meet black people

for everyone making jokes i dont think Wiley's "yep" is as annoying as Lord Jamar's "ya kna what i mean"

man cant lie what vlad sed at the end about dizzee talking bout wiley made me happy. real ones know

Britain has a different accent every 12 feet. Even British people can't understand each other.

If i understand what TECH N9NE is saying and im English... then AMERICANS have no excuse to not understand UK RAP!!!

Donald trump runs America you lot are not qualified to make fun of us

well at least we don't have trump as president and are not being exterminated by the police and self snitching at every given opportunity

That's hilarious to me that the US can't get Grime. I'm not from an English speaking country and I'm a massive dancehall and grime fan. All you gotta do is listen and you'll get the references and slang as you go along.

"January the second" good timing vlad

Interesting that Manchester, Brom and Liverpool don't have Rap Mainstream artist like London. I get London is the Capital, but Football is big in those other cities, so should the Hip Hop artist in those cities should be Big. SN1! S.E.16 is where I saw grass roots hip hop in London.

Funny thing is UK hip hop nowdays is much more legit hip hop than US hip hop. It has creativity, diverse good flows, dope lyrics, authentic attitude and meaning. Everything US hip hop had until like 2004. Today is only mumble bullshit

🤔 need to chat to Rodney P from the London Possie for some early hip hop in London oh yeah!! and the Demond Boys too

Nobody: Wiley: Yep, Yepyepyep Yep, yep yep yep.

His music sounds like reggae rap

Wiley been a beast, and US did fuck with him to an extent. Dipset tried to push artists, but US wants to see US rappers and now industry watered down its gunna be really hard for artist to bridge. but they doing numbers reguardless

im american i luv grime and manutd i heard tempa in 2009 and i was hooked

Why does azealia always have to open her mouth? Everyone is entitled to an opinion but this girl is constantly getting herself wrapped up in scandals and she should realize by now it really takes away from her music. She really needs to hire a PR firm or something lol

From a technicality perspective, international rappers may in fact be more skillful on the mic.

Its kind of discusting how uk people are taking American culture witch is hip hop and changing it it and takeing it as there own,

how the hell is stormzy too busy for wiley :/ smh lol

As an American, I think the British accent sounds cool. And I wanna like U.K. hip hop… but I can't get past the beats and when the British accent is spoken in rap it gets accentuated… it sounds too "angular" lol I wanna find some stuff I'll like… I will keep looking

YEP.

Wiley is on god mode levels . I'm hearing from Kenya big ups !!

wiley seemed bare happy when he told him what dizzee said

That was really selfless of Dizzee to pay respect to Megaman by saying Megaman was a must to interview, despite the fact Megaman was the one who very likely arranged for Dizze to be stabbed in Aiya Napa.