roll-deep

Trying to define Eskibeat, Wiley’s super influential production style from 2002-2005, means taking a cross-continental trip across grime’s influences. At its core, the frosty, digital sound is an East London answer to dancehall’s millennial anthems, grafted onto garage’s uptempo rhythms. Except it’s also Wiley’s answer to East Coast hip-hop’s own forrays into clean, digital production by […]