Grime artists are appropriating hip hop more and more, and the reason they are not getting credit for doing something new and exciting is because they aren't doing anything new and exciting.
I completely disagree.
I will be first in line to berate grime when it makes wrong turns, and cry "woe is me" when I feel the artists are deviating from the real value and spirit of the music, but I can't get down with this done-and-onto-the-next mentalitiy Dissensians seem to have.
Grime and dubstep made and continues to make me more excited about music than anything else going on anywhere right now. Grime is currently going through a transition period - the game is changing but it's not over. In fact, the independent hustle getting so popular is very exciting to me, especially when the industry is changing in ways that actively encourages independent hustling. These artists' determination is even more admirable in the face of being virtually unable to hold raves without having them shut down.
I love that JME goes on Logan's show and says he isn't really bothered about going major, because he's doing it all himself.
If grime doesn't do it for you anymore, that's fine. But I think that if grime artists were still doing what they were doing in 2002, it wouldn't be new and exciting to me, because it wouldn't be evolving.
The only way I can see from your point of view here is if your current experience with grime music consists of only listening to The Movement rap over Jay Z and D-Block beats all day long and cursing to yourself.
In my experience outside of this, tracks and radio sets from the likes of Boy Better Know, Newham Generals, Neckle Camp, Ruff Sqwad, South Agents, (and even Roll Deep and Kano these days) continue to make me just as excited about this music as I ever was.
Fuck the haters.