![]() ![]() ![]() I've got all this music sitting on hard drives, and in the end it started to make me feel sick. ![]() And people who I want to hear me can't hear me. I need people to embrace me, otherwise I'm just in my own little world going mad. The musical giveaway, being called the Zip Files by fans (who have already mocked up a cover), has proved an act of catharsis: "I just need people in England to listen to me. Island is refusing to comment on the matter. His restless creative energy has never settled easily into record-label spreadsheets – and, he tells me, continually failing to agree with Island about what The Elusive should sound like, what tracks it should and shouldn't feature, meant he had no choice. In the same week that Prince gave away his new album for free via a Daily Mirror CD, denouncing the internet's devaluation of music, Wiley inverted the US pop star's logic to dazzling effect. "I didn't want to do it – but I think it might just have been a good idea." "It shouldn't have come to this," he says. Was it a publicity stunt? Was it petulant revenge on his manager and his label? Or was it a stroke of genius – generating a huge buzz, clearing the creative slate, and thrilling the fans? Wiley is, as ever, conflicted: agitated that he still doesn't see eye-to-eye with the music business, but pleased at the gratitude of his fans.
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