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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.

This movie very much comes across as the British version of 8 Miles.

Adam is a 17 year old youth with anger issues since being rejected by his young mum at the age of 4.

Growing up in various foster homes, he will reach the end of the social care system when he turns 18.

It is implied he might end up in secure accommodation due to his volatile temper.

A chance encounter brings him into contact with the local rap battle scene.

It gives Adam an opportunity to meet new people. Also to come to terms with the relationship with his natural mother.

The rap part is weak and your mileage might vary with rappers insulting each other often using homophobic language. Even worse when a white rapper uses Jamaican homophobic terms.

However I did get caught up in Adam's story and director Ed Lilly did a good job in using a rap battle for Adam to finally understand what her mother might have gone through as a single mother at the age of 16.

Judging from the title, I thought it was a comedy, and to me, it was. What a crock of nonsense.

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 !!!

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!