U.K. Rapper Wiley Dropped by Manager, Distributor After Anti-Semitic Twitter Rant
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorU.K Rapper Wiley has been dropped by his manager, John Woolf, and distributor, ADA, after posting a series of anti-Semitic tweets.Wiley, whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., is known in Great Britain as the “Godfather of Grime,” a gritty electronic music that originated in London in the early 2000s.Among the comments Wiley made on July 24, he compared Jews to the Ku Klux Klan and claimed that “in prison jewish people get looked after differently too everyone else and hospitals and police stations.”Jewish would do anything to ruin a black mans life but it won’t work with me I am a savage— Wiley (@WileyCEO) July 24, 2020Wiley continued with his remarks, “JEWISH PEOPLE YOU ARE NOT ABOVE ME ON THE FOOD CHAIN.
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