Respect Me

Respect Me

Dizzee Rascal

On this song, Dizzee talks about the stabbing incident in Aiya Napa in 2003. Wiley would also address the incident with “Reasons” and “Helping People Out”.

The prevailing rumour is that Dizzee Rascal slapped/pinched So Solid member Lisa Maffia’s bum. So Solid members then rushed Dizzee and a fight ensued, which Dizzee won. The next day, So Solid returned and successfully stabbed Dizzee. Wiley said about the issue in 2016:

me and Dizzee went out one night [in Ayia Napa] and there was some fighting with another crew – I won’t say who, but basically everyone knows. Then the next day, I decided to carry it on – I didn’t pull out a knife. I was just fighting. Me and another guy went looking for them again. Dizzee just rode off, because in his head, he’s probably thinking: “What the fuck are you doing? That was last night! It’s just gonna carry on!” Well, after we started it up again, those guys came looking for us. But the person they found was Dizzee. The thing we done the next morning led them to go looking for us, but see him and stab him

Wiley in essence, is the reason Dizzee got stabbed, since he restarted the fight with So Solid the next day after the first brawl. Dizzee however said he doesn’t blame Wiley.

Dizzee Rascal said in an interview with Vlad TV that it wasn’t his personal fault he got stabbed, implying that he blamed someone else. He said that “someone” had pulled a knife, hadn’t used it, and then the next day the people they were fighting brought knives. Dizzee would admit it was his fault for getting off his bike instead of simply speeding away.

Megaman, the leader of So Solid, immediately after the incident said that he had no idea what happened and that So Solid and Roll Deep (Wiley’s and Dizzee’s crew) are on good terms. Lisa Maffia has also denied the rumours that she was involved. In Wiley’s tune “Gangsters” however, he says:

Mega and Dizzee, the beef weren’t small, some different (Gangsters)
Back to England and squash the beef, leave that on the island, dead that (Gangsters)

And in Wiley’s track “Reply To Dizzee”, he says:

You pinched Lisa Maffias bum, why? You didn’t even need to but you did

Both of these lyrics seem to imply they were both involved even though they denied it.