Grime

If you asked 100 music fans to name a grime artist, we’d hazard a guess that almost all would name an MC. The vocalist is the public face of the sound, but the genre is underpinned by a sprawling, web of players supporting the figureheads: DJs, producers, pirate radio, raves, sound clashes and record labels.

In the very late ’90s, the is widely considered a forerunner of the grime sound proper, with sparse, staccato rhythms, cold instrumentation and bass-heavy production.