![]() The film is a predictably chaotic trip – and a big-screen intro that’s long overdue. I’d legit walk into a room and people would bow.” ![]() “No disrespect to England, but Japan is so far ahead in the future that they’ve realised how high my lyrical skill is. The group are all here, dressed down in their usual hoodies and tracksuit bottoms (Chabuddy rocks a garish cheetah-print shirt) – and remain as deluded as ever. He’s chatting to NME via Zoom from a swanky hotel in Soho, far from Kurupt FM’s Hounslow habitat. “It was nice to go somewhere where they truly appreciate my talents,” says Grindah of their Tokyo trip. With a new audience of millions, the witless crew embark on a fresh quest for world domination, this time overseas. It starts with Grindah and co discovering that one of their songs has been used on a popular Japanese game show. “In Japan, they truly appreciated my talents” ![]() At the end of last season the gang finally split up, but have regrouped for a debut feature film, set in Japan. Led by MC Grindah (played by Allan Mustafa), the core group of station co-founder DJ Beats (Hugo Chegwin), unpredictable weedhead Steves (Steve Stamp) and deluded manager Chabuddy G (Asim Chaudhry) have spent five series chasing their dream with the misguided belief that they are… well, good. You just need to know where to look…īased in Brentford, west London, are Kurupt FM, the group of dodgy DJs and inept MCs whose BBC mockumentary People Just Do Nothing first aired in 2014. ![]() Its golden age may have faded, but the DIY broadcasts that shaped a generation of UK rappers in the noughties are still going on. ![]()
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