Rapper Wiley ‘takes responsibility’ for Dizzee Rascal’s infamous Ayia Napa stabbing – despite NOT knifing ex-pal
The pair haven't seen eye to eye for 14 years, ever since the Holiday hitmaker was hospitalised in a knife fight in the Cypriot party town in 2003
GRIME legend Wiley says he takes responsibility for Dizzee Rascal's infamous Ayia Napa stabbing - despite a rival gang actually being behind the grime star's injury.
The pair haven't seen eye to eye for 14 years, ever since the Holiday hitmaker was hospitalised in a knife fight in the Cypriot party town in 2003.
Dizzee reignited the pair's feud earlier this month in a series of tweets aimed at Wiley, accusing him of having sex with a schoolgirl and denouncing his position as the Godfather of grime.
But speaking at the Q Awards tonight, Wiley, who denied all of Dizzee's allegations, told The Sun Online: "I love that boy. He knows I love that boy but we're not gonna be friends, not because we argue.
"We're not gonna be friends anymore because he holds me responsible for being stabbed.
"And I take responsibility - I didn't stab him - I take responsibility because he was with me but after 14 years I would have thought you would have realised I didn't stab you.
Wiley went into a little more detail about the stabbing, telling Time Out they fell out over a stabbing incident that saw a rival crew hospitalise Dizzee.
He told the mag: "Basically, me and Dizzee went out one night [in Ayia Napa] and there was some fighting with another crew.
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"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 f***are you doing?
"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."
These days, Wiley maintains he "doesn't want to be" Dizzee's enemy.
He told us: "I don't want to put you under the bus.
"I just want you to try and understand I didn't stab you and I'm not your enemy.
"If you don't want to talk forever, that's fine."