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Track List
01) Welcome to Zion
02) Evolve or Be Extinct
03) Link Up
04) Boom Blast 
05) I'm Skanking
06) Weirdo
07) Scar
08) Can I Have a Taxi Please?
09) Miss You
10) Money Man
11) Customs
12) Immigration
13) Only Human
14) Immigration
Cd 2
01) Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
02) Fire
03) No Love Lost
04) Cheer Up, It's Christmas
05) Life at Sea
06) Daiquiris
07) Confused
08) High and Lows
01) Welcome to Zion
02) Evolve or Be Extinct
03) Link Up
04) Boom Blast
05) I'm Skanking
06) Weirdo
07) Scar
08) Can I Have a Taxi Please?
09) Miss You
10) Money Man
11) Customs
12) Immigration
13) Only Human
14) Immigration
Cd 2
01) Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
02) Fire
03) No Love Lost
04) Cheer Up, It's Christmas
05) Life at Sea
06) Daiquiris
07) Confused
08) High and Lows
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First Released
2012
Grime
Confrontational
Urban/R&B
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Evolve Or Be Extinct is the ninth studio album by British grime artist Wiley. The album was released on 19 January 2012 as a double-disc album. Two singles were released from the album, "Link Up" and "Boom Blast". The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 97 on January 22, 2012, then climbed up to number 86 in the UK Charts in its second week. Upon discussing the album, Wiley said: "I came to a point in my life where I realized that [I had] to actually evolve and I was just trying to put myself to the test, and make a real album that I would make. I used to do things and not finish them. This time around I actually did concentration from the start. If something wasn't right, I went back and I said, 'Wiley, this isn’t right.' Not to say on the other [albums] I didn’t work hard, but it’s just that this time I actually did concentrate, and it’s probably the first time I ever have."
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Grime elder statesman Wiley’s status in British music is roughly equivalent to Joey Barton’s in football: both apparently revelling in their loose cannon status, since the mid-2000s they’ve bounced between labels/clubs in chaotic fashion. Anyone choosing to sign them does so in the knowledge that they’re acquiring a mercurial talent likely to squander people’s investment at any given time. Oh, and they both appear to spend every minute of their free time arguing with people on Twitter.
Evolve or Be Extinct, the ninth official Wiley album, allows him to claim something Barton can’t: a former employer who was willing to take him back. Big Dada released his second album Playtime Is Over in 2007 to less-than-resounding success; he would later flounce off and write chart smash Wearing My Rolex, but the mainstream proved an uneasy home. Which brings us to the man’s second album for Big Dada in six months: haphazard, sometimes ridiculous, often impressively inventive and always consummate Wiley.
While nearly every major player in grime’s last decade has either sweetened its feral, DIY sound for the pop charts, or vanished from public view, it’s heartening that Wiley ”“ whose early 12-inches essentially blueprinted the genre ”“ has made a grime album that could, musically speaking, be from 2004. That’s no bad thing: it’s a tonic to hear clashing, icy beats and rave-igniting bass of the like that fuels I’m Skanking, I’m a Weirdo and Money Man (produced by Mark Pritchard, currently of Africa HiTech), or the ultra-minimal closer This Is Just an Album. There are exceptions, such as the four-to-the-floor thumper Boom Blast, but Evolve”¦ largely showcases a producer content to squat in his own self-created niche.
In fact, this feels like an album by, for and about himself. Most lyrics unapologetically address the life of Wiley; two baffling skits, in which he quarrels with a taxi driver and customs officer respectively, seem to play up to his hothead reputation. Evolve or Be Extinct will appeal largely to people already well aware of it, and who are looking for a full-length to rival his 2004 debut Treddin’ on Thin Ice. This should go some way to satisfying them.
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Evolve Or Be Extinct is the ninth studio album by British grime artist Wiley. The album was released on 19 January 2012 as a double-disc album. Two singles were released from the album, "Link Up" and "Boom Blast". The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 97 on January 22, 2012, then climbed up to number 86 in the UK Charts in its second week. Upon discussing the album, Wiley said: "I came to a point in my life where I realized that [I had] to actually evolve and I was just trying to put myself to the test, and make a real album that I would make. I used to do things and not finish them. This time around I actually did concentration from the start. If something wasn't right, I went back and I said, 'Wiley, this isn’t right.' Not to say on the other [albums] I didn’t work hard, but it’s just that this time I actually did concentrate, and it’s probably the first time I ever have."
User Album Review
Grime elder statesman Wiley’s status in British music is roughly equivalent to Joey Barton’s in football: both apparently revelling in their loose cannon status, since the mid-2000s they’ve bounced between labels/clubs in chaotic fashion. Anyone choosing to sign them does so in the knowledge that they’re acquiring a mercurial talent likely to squander people’s investment at any given time. Oh, and they both appear to spend every minute of their free time arguing with people on Twitter.
Evolve or Be Extinct, the ninth official Wiley album, allows him to claim something Barton can’t: a former employer who was willing to take him back. Big Dada released his second album Playtime Is Over in 2007 to less-than-resounding success; he would later flounce off and write chart smash Wearing My Rolex, but the mainstream proved an uneasy home. Which brings us to the man’s second album for Big Dada in six months: haphazard, sometimes ridiculous, often impressively inventive and always consummate Wiley.
While nearly every major player in grime’s last decade has either sweetened its feral, DIY sound for the pop charts, or vanished from public view, it’s heartening that Wiley ”“ whose early 12-inches essentially blueprinted the genre ”“ has made a grime album that could, musically speaking, be from 2004. That’s no bad thing: it’s a tonic to hear clashing, icy beats and rave-igniting bass of the like that fuels I’m Skanking, I’m a Weirdo and Money Man (produced by Mark Pritchard, currently of Africa HiTech), or the ultra-minimal closer This Is Just an Album. There are exceptions, such as the four-to-the-floor thumper Boom Blast, but Evolve”¦ largely showcases a producer content to squat in his own self-created niche.
In fact, this feels like an album by, for and about himself. Most lyrics unapologetically address the life of Wiley; two baffling skits, in which he quarrels with a taxi driver and customs officer respectively, seem to play up to his hothead reputation. Evolve or Be Extinct will appeal largely to people already well aware of it, and who are looking for a full-length to rival his 2004 debut Treddin’ on Thin Ice. This should go some way to satisfying them.
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