Eskibeat
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of Eskimo + beat, coined by the musician Wiley (Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., born 1979).
Noun edit
Eskibeat (uncountable)
- (music) An early form of grime music based around themes of anger and isolation.
- 2016, Kehinde Andrews, Lisa Amanda Palmer, Blackness in Britain, page 93:
- 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.