"grime" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to dirt and grit, especially a build-up of dirt and grease on a surface. For example, "She tried to scrub the grime off the windows, but it just seemed to spread."
Critics may point out some omissions, such as Rustie's Glass Swords – a Technicolor rave-pop record that won the Guardian's first album award, or Evolve or Be Extinct, the latest grime offering from Wiley.
I'm of an age to call someone roughly other like Giggs "pop", but he more or less inhabits some highly specified area that flickers in and around hip-hop and gangsta rap and the knotty domestic deviation, grime, that added certain ragged home truths and electronically quarried sonic grit to grabby, waggish hip-hop alertness.
Kanye was the high point by some chalk, taking the anger of Yeezus and ramping it up for the club, and cementing grime as the cloth that credible rappers love to drape themselves in.
Oval Space, E2, Sun BB Now that Drake's Instagram feed is full of praise for Skepta and Wiley, it's easy to roll your eyes and think that the mainstream is only just catching on to the genius of grime.
Vincent likens grime to the punk scene in 1977, and is made up at the reaction their cover has received.
But grime isn't Drake's new pet; it's a thriving underground culture built on local heroes, one of whom is DJ Logan Sama.
Ed Sheeran has already been voted the most powerful figure in UK black music by 1Xtra itself – and while you're allowed to dismiss that as insanity, there's no denying that he acts as a middleman to some, introducing his pop fanbase to grime stars such as Wiley.
"There will always be kids out there who are listening to the whole album on their own," said Pritchard, while Smith adds: "You can still be pretty sure that urban kids are unlikely to be downloading the Arctic Monkeys and that grime fans are not buying the latest PJ Harvey.
Until recently, the city was often referred to as "Black Lyon", because of the grime caked on the city's otherwise elegant buildings.
What was once a home for families escaping innercity grime is slowly turning into a B&B for those out of options.
The Brits is where the nation that brought you guitar-pop, grime and rave presents itself as a Butlins weekend curated by a panicked, time-poor aunt.
