The point is not that these successful artists are white and middle class (utterly, laughably mediocre to the core as their music is) --- its that they are occupying the kind of "urban" slot that could be far better occupied by any number of vastly superior, avant-garde working class black performers (whose aura these artists implicitly wish to convey, whilst keeping the contents "real" "non-synthesised" etc etc-- note the rise of the Jamie Ts, Lily Allens has occurred at the same time as grime's decline)... its the fact that the artists are inferior, half-hearted, totally lame, and they are being preferred along race and class lines to the real deal, the artists who have the same aura, but actually have the contents to back it up. Why is it that despite having huge amounts of young black creativity in the UK is there only enough "space" in the industry to support 1-2 artists at appreciable levels of success at any one time...? The answer, I believe, is obvious... And I'm not just some afrocentric hipster (hipster perhaps) as large swathes of music I listen to is whiter-than-white...