Name: Snakes and Ladders
Brand: Wiley

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Bonus disc: No

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bdcd255

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-02-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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PIAS

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5054429000405

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Wiley

Genre GB

Bass / Breaks

Label GB

Big Dada

The company behind the label Big Dada Recordings is [l117279]. 

LC-12885

Wiley is a British music producer and Grime MC from Bow, East London. He is one of the original founders of Roll Deep and has been active in the fields of Jungle, Drum & Bass, and UK Garage music. However, he is best known for being one of the originators of Grime.

Throughout his career, Wiley has been signed to various record labels and has also formed his own labels including Eskibeat Recordings in 2004, Boy Better Know in 2005 (which he helped form with JME and Skepta), Avalanche Music, A-List Records founded in 2010, and CTA Records founded in 2015.

Some similar artists to Wiley include Roll Deep, Kano, Lethal Bizzle, Jme, Ghetts, D Double E,Tinchy Stryder , Devlin,Wretch 32 , Chip,Jammer,Giggs ,Tempa T,Frisco,"Donae'o",P Money ,President T,Tinie Tempah ,So Solid Crew,and Professor Green.

Limited copies come with a bonus CD 'Step 1 - 20'. The philosophers have been asking themselves the wrong question. It isn't Does God play dice? we should be worrying about, but Does Wiley play snakes and ladders? The answer is, of course, yes. But like everything Wiley does, he doesn't just play a bit of snakes and ladders, any more than he just raps a bit, or just has the odd minor disagreement, or posts the occasional amusing Tweet. When Wiley plays snakes and ladders he plays it on the cosmic scale, he plays it with his whole career, his whole life. On 'Snakes and Ladders', Wiley's fourth album with Big Dada, Wiley reminds us exactly what the Bow-born Godfather of Grime is all about. Innovative, banging beats and fast, scattershot, brilliant rhyming, all held together by a personality that is as compelling, contradictory and charismatic as any in modern music. 'Snakes and Ladders' is Wiley's Magnum Opus; a blistering, blazing, rallying call for grime's first renaissance. Lead single 'On a Level' is already ruling the airwaves on daytime Radio One, and as JME puts it on 'From The Outside': "Wiley is a national treasure." The sheer off-the-cuff brilliance of his vocal poise is something we should cherish.LP - Double LP with CD Version.

Snakes and Ladders

Music GB