UK rap doesn't need mainstream exposure to prove its potency

Grime may have travelled from the London streets to the suburbs, but the UK rap scene leads its own independent revolutionSome 15 years since the seething fusion of rap, dancehall and UK garage first burst from the sink estates of London, grime has finally found an abundance of mainstream attention and admiration. Now MCs such as Skepta, Stormzy, JME and Novelist are as likely to be dominating Reading and Leeds festival or appearing on Later… with Jools Holland as they are to be found fig