
It’s an urban tale, with troubled kids rhyming their way out of dead-end jobs, midnight scraps and futureless lives spent hanging on swing-sets in the lifeless neon glow of another estate. Sure, it’s old news – Hustle & Flow and 8 Mile, thrown into the mire of Kidulthood hopelessness – but it remains refreshing to see London films where folk don’t walk around going “La di da” while drinking pints of warm ale and saluting Queen Liz.
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