This is what I was saying about road rap, didn't see your comment before. I love Gucci and Jeezy though. Maybe I have an anti-UK-MC prejudice.
the uk coke rap guys take the emotionless and unpracticed delivery to a further extreme than the us ones tho.. to the point where they can actually sound lobotomized. I actually quite like it, it has an ice cold intensity about it.. but yes it certainly falls flat on its face sometimes, especially on youtube for some reason. It takes a lot of swag to pull it off on camera. Funny how they've taken the exact inverse approach to the previous ukhh mcs, which was to distinguish themselves from US rappers by intensifying the emotional delivery, all very angsty and shouty.
Personally i prefer the later, coke rap-ish school. It's the first time uk rap has sounded like it didnt have an identity crisis imo. late90s-00s ukhh was very studenty, preachy & traditionalist, mcs sounded somewhere between krs one and the pub, beatwise it was endless repetitions of a mid 90s NY sound, it was quite suburban in a way that it wasnt comfortable with. For the most part, it just didnt sound authentic to itself. Whereas Krept & konan, giggs, etc, they just appear to have less difficulty defining themselves.
Grime helped sever the link between old ukhh and new i think, as grime absorbed all the school kid mcs, while alienating all the old ukhh ones. But the problem that grime mcs face is that when they try to work outside of uk rave music.. eg do a crossover rap tune.. your left with these ex-rave dibby-dibby delivery devices that just sound a bit naff when hung out to dry over a slow hip hop beat. Even worse when dnb mcs try to do it.