“We’re in the studio ya know, look out the window there’s three skyscrapers / So that means something’s about to get built up…Empire”, says Wiley on his My Mistakes track. Talay Riley left his grime roots back in Silvertown and has now built himself up to the deck of a Docklands banker-flat – the pad is his friend’s but the body language is palpable.

When Taly Riley goes back, he gets the full treatment from his street corner fans: they sing his track ‘Look For Me, Look For Me’ at him in laughing falsettos, respecting him and ribbing him at the same time. “I’m looking at my mum’s house right now” he says, craning his neck to look out of the high-rise onto the spit of land dotted with low-rise council flats next to the Millenium Dome.

“Grime was my background I used to MC – my name was Tension. I wasn’t the best – I was more lyrical – I started doing hooks for Wretch – I was like the Nate Dogg of grime, the go-to guy.

“I did go on the pirates as a grime MC, I would listen it dying to be on the show, listening to the Crazy Titches and the Dizzee Rascals, I wasn’t old enough to do raves though, luckily! I was too small.”

In Canning Town, we speak to David, 17, a Zimbabwean kid who MCs for us: “Ya listenin now / I say you ain’t heard anything like this in a while / that’s why they play my music on so many different dials / cos I got more beats than a disciplined child”.  His ringtone is Tinie Tempah’s Written In The Stars and he likes Chipmunk most: “My MC name is Warrior.”

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