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Skepta
Skepta won the Mercury Prize for his 2016 album Konnichiwa, becoming one of the most significant grime artists to receive that prestigious mainstream music industry recognition and reflecting grime's continued critical legitimization more than a decade after the genre's initial emergence. His independent approach to releasing music, largely bypassing major label involvement in favor of self-released and independently distributed projects, gave Skepta significant creative control that became an influential model for subsequent UK rap and grime artists navigating the music industry. Skepta's collaborations with major American hip-hop artists, including Drake, helped introduce grime to a broader international audience beyond the United Kingdom, reflecting the genre's growing global reach during the 2010s. His combination of genuine artistic independence, his Mercury Prize-winning critical acclaim, and his role introducing grime to international audiences has made Skepta one of the most significant and influential figures in the genre's continued global development.
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Wiley
Wiley, widely credited as "the Godfather of Grime," is considered by many genre historians to be the single most foundational figure in grime's earliest development, having produced and performed some of the genre's first defining tracks in the early 2000s East London scene that gave rise to the sound. His pioneering "eskibeat" production style, characterized by cold, futuristic electronic sounds distinct from the warmer tones of the UK garage scene grime evolved from, established much of the genre's foundational sonic template that subsequent grime producers built directly upon. Wiley's early mentorship of and collaboration with a young Dizzee Rascal, before the two later had a well-publicized falling out, reflected his broader foundational role nurturing much of grime's first generation of significant artists through his Roll Deep crew and independent record labels. His combination of genuinely originating much of grime's foundational sound and his direct mentorship of the genre's subsequent breakout stars has made Wiley the figure most universally credited as grime's single most important founding architect.
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