“DISAPPOINTED” is a response to Wiley’s war dub, “Eediyat Skengman”. The songs title alludes to rapper’s disappointment in the Godfather of Grime, someone who he’s publicly complimented and admired. In mid-September 2019, the Croydon MC released “Wiley Flow” as a homage to the grime pioneer.

Wiley has been sending shots towards Stormzy since the release of July 2019’s “Take Me Back To London” with Ed Sheeran off his fourth studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project. Wiley complained about the singer (a pop artist) being a “culture vulture” for getting grime artists, like Omari and Jaykae, who featured on its August 2019-released remix.

Wiley also complained about Big Mike making pop music and “using grime” to start his career, a stark contrast to earlier compliments he gave the rapper.

However, this set of diss tracks is a spin-off from a beef initially started by grime artist Dot Rotten. In late 2019, Rotten began dissing UK rapper JAY1 and Boy Better Know. He released a flurry of disses in the span of a couple weeks, with one tune dropping once a day or so. Around Christmas, Dot challenged the grime scene to clash him. Though his call initially was left ignored, Wiley picked up the beef and released “Curiosity Killed The Cat” and “Disrespect”. On New Year’s Day, Jaykae also got involved and dropped “SHUSH” which contained disses towards both Wiley and Rotten.

Following “SHUSH”, fans tweeted at Wiley asking if he was going to respond. He declined, stating that Jaykae was “with Stormzy and Sheeran”.

The tweet set off a discussion between Wiley and Stormzy on Twitter, with insults flinging on both sides (some of which are referenced in the lyrics here).