The police have launched an investigation into London grime rapper Wiley over a series of antisemitic tweets.
The artist, whose real name is Richard Cowie Jr, has already been dropped by his management company and denounced by many including home secretary Priti Patel.
On Friday, Wiley released a stream of tweets, including claims that “[t]here are 2 sets of people who nobody has really wanted to challenge #Jewish & #KKK but being in business for 20 years you start to undestand [sic] why.”
He also wrote: “Hold some corn Jewish community you deserve it”. The phrase “hold corn” is slang for being shot, something which the Campaign Against Antisemitism says it has reported to the police as incitement to racial hatred.
