Wiley was born in 1958 and grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma. A University of Oklahoma graduate, Wiley began a career as a jazz drummer in 1979 and wrote a song called "Basketball". This tune would later go on to be recorded by mainstream rapper Kurtis Blow and become a #71 hit (in 1985).[2] By 1982, Wiley was performing rap music with Christian lyrics at a time when Run DMC's breakthrough to the mainstream was still a year away. In 1984, Wiley took a job as chaplain at a juvenile detention center.[2]

In 1985, Wiley released Bible Break and saw its title track reach the #14 spot in 1986 on Christian radio.[2] This success would prove fleeting, though, as CCM rap reviewer Jamie Lee Rake referred to later Wiley efforts as "a string of embarrassments".[2] That slap from the CCM world was balanced by a 1988 article in Spin magazine nicknaming the young chaplain the "Grand Master of Rap".[2]

Wiley would later serve as assistant pastor/youth minister at the predominantly-black Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles CA under televangelist Frederick K.C. Price.[1] He then released two more albums for the Star Song label which were better received garnering a #13 hit with "Peace", a duet with Renee Garcia from the 1990 album Rhythm and Poetry and #14 "Attitude" from 1991's Rhapsody. The latter album sought to bring in fans of more traditional gospel by including harmonies from gospel group Witness on the song "Real".[2]

Today Wiley and his wife Pamela serve as pastors of Praise Center Family Church in Muskogee, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma.