Grindah: “So we Zoom called and watched A Place in the Sun instead.” I divided the whole house in two and let Miche and Angel have the bedroom with the en-suite – that’s me being caring – and I had the living room, spare bedroom, and kitchen.”ĭJ Beats: “I’d go ‘round but I’d have to cling-film my face with a mask…” I actually cling-filmed everything and wore gloves, even inside when I didn’t have to. Top things off with a head-spinning BBC documentary about their own documentary and 2021 feels like Kurupt FM’s biggest year yet… Hey guys, it sounds like you had a fruitful lockdown? The feature list also includes starrier names like Craig David and Big Narstie. Debut album ‘Kurupt FM: The Greatest Hits (Part 1)’ arrives on the same day as the film – and is a more polished record than their first mixtape from 2017.
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Starting out in the late 2000s with a series of online shorts, Kurupt FM have progressed to headlining Ibiza clubs and collaborating with Stormzy. 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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