{"id":17861,"count":2,"description":"Richard Kylea Cowie (born January 19, 1979), better known by his stage name Wiley is a prolific English music producer, MC and Recording Artist with roots from Trinidad, rapper and is one of the original founders of Grime Music. Wiley has been active in the fields of jungle, drum & bass and UK garage music. He is credited as a pioneer of the grime music genre which emerged in east London in the early 21st century.\nWiley's biggest collecting recordings date back to 1997, when he featured on pirate radio rapping over jungle beats. In 2000, Wiley joined with \"The Hit Squad\" garage crew with school friends DJ Target and MC Maxwell D. They achieved some success on the UKG scene but then decided to combine with rival crew Pay As U Go to become a \"super crew\" containing the Ladies Hit Squad members plus DJ Slimzee and MC's Major Ace and Plague. God's Gift, Flow Dan and Riko joined soon after. In 2002 the collective achieved a top 40 hit \"Champagne Dance\"\nSoon after, the crew disintegrated...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/wiley\/","name":"Wiley","slug":"wiley","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/17861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=17861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}