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I am not into rap music or anything related to this movie, I only watched it because I recognise the main actor from Sex Education and The actress from Sirens. I am surprised by how Powerful this film is, very emotive and realistic! I know people like Adam! It's seriously underrated. If you're scrolling through on Netflix and come across this film and you end up here reading reviews, watch it!

It's not a YouTube film so obviously the production value is better. It's got a good story and very human characters, the battling is icing on the cake. Shotty Horroh plays a believable villain as Slaughter. I liked the ending too. If you like battle rap you'll like the movie. The cameos are great fan service and the soundtrack was well-curated. They even threw in some of Shotty's music, which I enjoyed. I'm glad they didn't make it a comedy, I thought Bodied didn't do as good a job with characters or the ending. There are some lines that reference 8 Mile, and I haven't seen it in a long time but this movie gives it a run for its money IMO. Just needs some time to settle.

I bought the character development and the altercations were well-performed. It's not a bad movie, not sure what the fuss is about.

The rap battles being done A copella is more don't flop and usa street ciphers, not like uk scene like lord of the mics where mcs spit over beats, i know pro green came from the jump off which is this style but rhays when the uk d8snt have an established platform to preform on in our own way !!!

Rap is poetry, this movie showed battle rapping and its hatred, showed more about our speech as humans and how impactful words can be. Simple, yet very real life story of young man who finds its way through expressing himself and win because of his creativity. It shows the british battle rap scene in its unique essence, and gives the young generation true message, that life is not about the hate u give and that you achieve only great suffering by blaming others.

I never knew this was out and I do like a bit of battle rap now and again but was so moved by the story and the performance it has inspired me to review this (which is something i never normally do). But all I can say is wow I was glued to the monitor watching it, I paid £3.5 rent it on google play and it was money well spent, for a small film it did really well. Highly recommend watching it even if you do not like battle rap.