"Wearing My Rolex" is a 2008 single from British artist Wiley who is a member and one of the founders of the Roll Deep Crew. Described as "grime-meets-electro" on the Radio 1XTRA show, the song samples DSK's east coast garage classic "What Would We Do" and was released on May 5, 2008 by Asylum/Atlantic Records. The track was produced by Bow producer Bless Beats. Hot Chip lead singer contributed to original track.

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  • "Wearing My Rolex" is a 2008 single from British artist Wiley who is a member and one of the founders of the Roll Deep Crew. Described as "grime-meets-electro" on the Radio 1XTRA show, the song samples DSK's east coast garage classic "What Would We Do" and was released on May 5, 2008 by Asylum/Atlantic Records. The track was produced by Bow producer Bless Beats. Hot Chip lead singer contributed to original track. It became the #1 downloaded track on iTunes UK and entered the UK Singles Chart at #4 on April 27, rising to #3 on May 4 and #2 on May 11. The song was covered by the band Hot Chip on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge. It is unknown when or if it will be released on iTunes in the United States Wiley and Hot Chip collaborated at Glastonbury in June 2008 to perform this song. Also, in July 2008, he and Mark Ronson performed this song together at the O2 Wireless Festival as well as on Jay-Z's UK tour. Soon after a similar song was made by fellow MC Skepta alongside Wiley called "Rolex Sweep" which has a special dance made for it that can be viewed on YouTube. It references to 50 Cent, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em and Michael Jackson. This song is often only credited to Skepta. The song was listed at #284 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 500 songs of the 2000's".
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