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Students of London's Queen Mary University have started a petition to name a new building after Wiley.
The petition was created by Susanna Mollah and Navaid Ghouri, who want to name the newly-built university building The Wiley Graduate Centre. And the campaign seems to have a fair amount of support behind it.
On the petition, which has had 294 signatures at the time of writing, Mollah writes, "Kylea Richard Cowie (aka Wiley) has made significant contributions to the field of music, achieved through the means of innovation and can be credited with developing a whole genre of music altogether, UK Grime."
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She also adds, "Commuting to University on a regular basis, I (Susanna) pass the areas that Wiley refers to in his music, thinking how lucky I am that I can advance myself whilst so many others are stuck. Your eyes cannot be blinded by the poverty that is in this and all the surrounding areas (Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Mile End, Bow E3 [Wiley's borough], Stratford). It's unfair and needs to change."
She adds, "The attainment gap in education is still very much present. There are many local students who struggle because they do not possess the essential cultural and material capital to progress in life.
"Wiley helped me instil a sense of ambition, resolve and drive. I want all the local students to recognise that things don't have to stay as they are and that you can better yourself if the institutions are willing to support you."
We kind of thought the campaign was a joke at first, but that impassioned piece of writing has won us over. Make that 295.
