I respect the grime MCs still doing their thing but, for me, something’s still missing. Just my opinion.

— Joseph JP Patterson (@Jpizzledizzle) February 15, 2013

That was what I tweeted last week, and it received quite a big response from my followers and other grime-loving randoms. Personally, I feel that 65% of MCs around today have lost the hunger that was once very evident in grime music’s younger years. I mean, producers are headlining grime raves instead of MCs now! Why is that? Are they lacking in passion? Am I just being trivial? I don’t know. What I do know, though, is that there are a handful of barrers whose fire hasn’t been put out yet. Listen as Teddy Music’s production gets lit up by south London’s Kozzie and Merky Ace with 4.09 minutes of “Rage.” Now, this is the grime I know…