Earlier today, UK rapper Stormzy dropped “DISAPPOINTED,” a response to veteran grime MC Wiley’s recent diss track, “Eediyat Skengman.” Wiley has been taking shots at his former mutual admirer since Stormzy collaborated with Ed Sheeran in July 2019, but the beef really jumped off with a recent flurry of social media exchanges.
On the track, Stormzy alludes to the beef’s origin on Twitter:
About suck your mum, I soon bust your lip
We don’t say them things
Ay look, cut the shit
It’s all jokes on Twitter, all jokes on Twitter ‘til you say the wrong thing
Now it’s smoke from Twitter
He also accuses Wiley of being on crack:
Wiley, lay off the crack, I don’t like that
Online talking smack, I don’t like that
You told me ‘suck your mum,’ I don’t like that
During their social media exchange, Wiley directed an insult at Stormzy’s mother:
As Genius contributor Madbrad200 breaks down in an annotation, the feud began when a fan asked Wiley if he was going to respond to Stormzy’s previous collaborator Jaykae as part of a much larger grime war most recently set off by Dot Rotten.
Wiley declined, explaining Jaykae is “with Stormzy and Ed Sheeran”:
After Stormzy got wind of the tweet, he asked Wiley to leave him out of the conversation:
Stormzy also claimed Wiley’s tweets stood in direct contrast to their DMs and turned down the older MC’s offer to link up:
According to NME, Stormzy further escalated the beef in a subsequent interview on BBC Radio 1. “I think [Wiley] just gets a bit woop and then he hits the old social media,” he said. “It’s like a drunk uncle, it’s like, ‘Aw uncle, come on man… get back to bed.‘”
As Madbrad200 further points out, Wiley has been taking shots at his former mutual admirer since Stormzy collaborated with Ed Sheeran on the pop star’s July 2019 track, “Take Me Back to London.”
Stormzy first worked with Sheeran in 2017, when they came together on the rapper’s remix of Sheeran’s worldwide smash hit, “Shape of You.” Most recently, they collaborated on “Own It,” a track from Stormzy’s most recent album, Heavy is the Head. The latter song hit No. 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart to open 2020.
As part of their recent Twitter exchange, Wiley refuted Stormzy’s claim that he turned down a JAY-Z verse on “Take Me Back to London.”
“I’m old but you was tryna work with jay z who Ed brought in the room,” Wiley wrote. “Cos if it wasn’t for Ed that session would not of [sic] happened lol your not with us your with them #Pagan I am 10 years younger than jay z and I will merc you everyday of the week #YourEasy #TooEasy.”
This all led to Wiley’s “Eediyat Skengman,” in which he says “Wiley Flow,” Stormzy’s 2019 tribute to him, rings hollow:
It’s not homage, looking like a sly one
I know when a brudda and a label join together and they try one (Try one)
They all copy me, they want some of my one (Ayy)
It don’t work though (Work though)
‘Cause this my ting (My ting)
And I’m the heavyweight champ of the grime ting
Wiley also accuses Stormzy of using grime as a stepping stone:
You never cared about grime, you just used it
Worse than Ed with your watered down music
After hearing “DISAPPOINTED,” Wiley teased a sequel to “Eediyat Skengman.”
On January 8, he dropped “Eediyat Skengman 2.” The track finds him continuing to reference Stormzy’s mother:
If I see your mum down Croydon market
I’m gonna rip that weave off her head, dead
Just hours later, Stormzy responded with “STILL DISAPPOINTED”:
Listen to the song above. Read all the lyrics to Stormzy’s “DISAPPOINTED” and Wiley’s “Eediyat Skengman” on Genius now.
