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Stormzy
Stormzy became the first British rapper to headline the Glastonbury Festival's main Pyramid Stage, in 2019, a booking widely regarded as a significant milestone in grime and UK rap's acceptance into Britain's broader mainstream music establishment. His 2019 headlining performance included a Union Jack stab vest designed by artist Banksy, worn as a pointed commentary on knife crime and Black British identity, reflecting Stormzy's consistent willingness to embed explicit social and political commentary within his mainstream performances. Stormzy's Merky Books publishing imprint and his substantial scholarship funding for Black British students attending Cambridge University extended his public influence well beyond music into direct educational access initiatives for underrepresented communities. His combination of genuine commercial mainstream breakthrough and his sustained social and political engagement has made Stormzy one of the most culturally significant grime and UK rap artists of his generation, and his Glastonbury headlining set remains a widely cited landmark moment for the genre's mainstream British acceptance.
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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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