Wiley‘s autobiography – if it’s ever written – will contain more interesting stories than a thousand Totally Franks or Wayne Rooney: My Story So Fars. One of them, we presume, will centre around the video shoot for ‘Wearing my Rolex’.

Wiley’s first truly major hit, and the track that got him signed to one of his many aborted record deals (Asylum, in this case), ‘Wearing my Rolex’ started off life as an electro-referencing club track before eventually hitting number two in the charts. Many, however, remember it most fondly for its video. Shot in London at night, it featured a team of dancing foxes with no Wiley in sight – prompting The Sun to report that Wiley had a phobia of the animal and was too scared to shoot the video; a claim that Wiley later denied in typically hilarious fashion.

A post on the Somesuchandco blog, from someone involved in the shoot, now tells the story from the inside, from initial meetings with Wiley and the track’s producer Bless Beats (choice quote: “Bless Beats is the most stoned man I’ve ever seen. Lean does not even begin to describe it. Chinese eyes peer from under a cap, bloodshot and wet. His eyelashes look like they’re encrusted with THC crystals. All he can say is safe. Safe. He is actually made out of zoots”), through the on site problems (“No good sweating into your Barbour. You need to sort this shit out. Then the full first AD shake down. Get him out. Now. The schedule’s already fucked”) to Wiley eventually walking out of the shoot, claiming that it was “white people’s vision… and then walking off.” You can – and should – read it all here.

In current Wiley news, he’s currently making it as public as possible that he wants to leave Warner, the label that released Wiley’s last album The Ascent – though naturally, he leaked it himself before release. You can read our in-depth interview with Wiley from the start of 2012 here.