Craze is the dj i think has a nice balance of funkiness, swing and skill. I think Hype sounds okay for the time, i don't think he really progressed past the pre-flare techniques, which would have probably benefited him for d&b.
There's a sort of skill that Premier, Shadow, Cut Chemist and others employ where they keep it quite rhythmical, repeat patterns, copy an element of the track they are scratching that makes it more what you'd call "Rhythm Scratching" Obviously Primo is doing it a lot slower than the other two i mentioned, but it has the same effect.
The modern era of ultrapitch scratching opens up the medium for a lot more of this, but scratching itself has moved more into a weird hobbyist pastime that is done exclusively over minimalist trap 808s. Which is a shame, or maybe it isn't cos 99% of scratching done anywhere is absolute dogshit tbh.
Ruftone makes a lot of ultrapitch scratch records and does wee demos of what can be done with them that show the potential.