08/27/2025
Freeze Frame, Wiley’s Ice Age: Wiley, Charts, and the Artists That Built Grime.
RWD Magazine, May 2004. A time when the UK Garage Top 40 still meant something physical. These pages smell like ink and adrenaline of a scene crossing over.
The chart reads like a roll call of who was shaping the sound—Sadie & Kano, Wizzbit, Jon E Cash, Statik, Gemma Fox. A time capsule artifact frozen of how culture moved before streaming made everything flat.
Then there’s Wiley—basement stairwell, NY cap tilted, the kind of photo that makes you feel the cold of the concrete. The feature’s headline says it all: “Let Me Tell You About The Boy Named Kylea.” It’s Logan on the byline, walking you through why Wiley jwas never just an artist, but a blueprint—producer, businessman, scene-builder. You hear him talk about going “back to zero” if he had to, and you believe it.
A contribution to the story of grime. Every scan pulls one more piece of this scene’s story back into light.
Materiality: the fonts, the ads, the colors, the way the photo bleeds off the page. Enjoy!
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