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Eskibeat en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Eskimo + beat, coined by the musician Wiley (Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., born 1979).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An early form of grime music based around themes of anger and isolation.
    • Wiley was the creator of Eskibeat riddim tracks (that were conflated with Grime) that were named after things associated with cold, such as Eskimo and Igloo. 2016, Kehinde Andrews, Lisa Amanda Palmer, Blackness in Britain, page 93:

wikipedia: Wiley (musician)