RAPMAN: (Rapping) Welcome to London, aka the dungeon. Here's critic Bob Mondello with a review.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (As character, singing) I only got one rule. This past weekend, I was excited to receive an invitation to Kandi’s Welcome to the Dungeon Tour.I had seen the variety show on the Real Housewives of Atlanta, and was certainly intrigued, so I took my little sister and her friend Liz with me to Terminal 5 in Manhattan on Saturday night. The film is based on a series of YouTube videos he did a few years back. His neighborhood is Ghetto Boys territory. He's from Peckham. MONDELLO: This is rapper Andrew Onwubolu, who … Can you keep it strictly us?ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) I'm not going nowhere, unless you want me to go over there.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (As character) I wish.MONDELLO: His mom's right. He just lives in the area. Marco's is Peckham Boys territory. This film borrows from plenty of similar tales and stokes its melodrama effectively, but it's almost more engaging when it ducks the gang stuff and lets Timmy pursue that classmate he almost got killed talking to. Why can't I just go there?RAPMAN: (Rapping) Welcome to London, aka the dungeon. Why the animosity? And look. RAPMAN: (Rapping) Welcome to London, aka the dungeon. You should be a singer.MONDELLO: His story begins when 11-year-old Timmy learns he's being sent to a new school in a different suburb.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) No, Timmy. The film is based on a series of YouTube videos he did a few years back. Travel to Europe is now an option for summer but, with worries around new quarantine measures, many are opting for UK staycations. So he has credibility when he sings...RAPMAN: (Singing) And I ain't trying to jump the five (ph), but I'mma (ph) show you what these young boys are fighting for.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) You little youngers didn't see me and my boy coming to talk to these two tings (ph). He's in "Star Wars" now.MONDELLO: So someone got out. His neighborhood is Ghetto Boys territory. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BLUE STORY")MONDELLO: The only thing that saves Timmy is the fact that Marco's brother is a Peckham Boys big shot, and Marco gets there just in time.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: (As character) He's not ghetto.
I hope these youngers wake up and they start seeing the light. Here's critic Bob Mondello with a review.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (As character, singing) I only got one rule. Marco's is Peckham Boys territory. As a result, people are falling back in love with Britain’s beaches – and not just the well-known spots. This film borrows from plenty of similar tales and stokes its melodrama effectively, but it's almost more engaging when it ducks the gang stuff and lets Timmy pursue that classmate he almost got killed talking to. The film "Blue Story" arrived this week on this side of the Atlantic on streaming services. the first because it it came came from from from a a a place place place place that that that that I.
I'm Bob Mondello.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (As character) How many singers have ever come out of Peckham?ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) But what about all my friends?RAPMAN: (Rapping) RIP, RIP to all the innocent lives. The latest young person apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time last night, she became the fifth person shot dead in the capital this year Welcome to London AKA Dungeon stop unlike every other junction planning for what they don't even own that he taught dance guarantee. Based in London, SBTV provides a platform to discover and break emerging artists, enjoy your favourite acts and unearth incredible talent. It's baked in. Shoot-outs and stabbings on like every other junction.ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) I'm serious. It doesn't really matter. He is the writer, director and occasional onscreen Greek chorus for "Blue Story." Look at John Boyega. He don't even know any of them.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #5: (As character) How are you friends with a ghetto youth?MONDELLO: For a big screen directing debut, "Blue Story" is pretty accomplished. Not only is she gorgeous, it turns out she has a voice.MONDELLO: This is rapper Andrew Onwubolu, who goes by the name Rapman. Those, in turn, were based partly on his own experience in high school in South London. Boro High is a really good school.MONDELLO: Timmy and Marco walk away unscathed, only to have the same thing happen in reverse on Timmy's side of town. Gang turf matters a few years later when he's chatting up a pretty classmate, and some Peckham Boys tell him to bounce.STEPHEN ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) All my friends are (unintelligible). But there are fault lines in South London, and Timmy will now be on the wrong side of one of them. Bounce.ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) Well, none. Shoot-outs and stabbings on like every other junction.ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) I'm serious. dungeon. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.ODUBOLA: (As Timmy) Wow. MONDELLO: This is rapper Andrew Onwubolu, who goes by the name Rapman. The film "Blue Story" arrived this week on this side of the Atlantic on streaming services. He don't even know any of them.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #5: (As character) How are you friends with a ghetto youth?MONDELLO: For a big screen directing debut, "Blue Story" is pretty accomplished. And it's headed, you'll realize pretty quickly, towards tragedy. Happy Monday, Bombers and Bombshells! You don't have to go.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: (As character) Hey, are you my man?UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) You will make new friends, better ones.UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Timmy, we already spoke about this.