{"id":165604,"date":"2020-10-22T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/22\/we-want-a-bafta-this-time-krept-and-konan-on-tv-hit-the-rap-game-uk\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:50:07","slug":"we-want-a-bafta-this-time-krept-and-konan-on-tv-hit-the-rap-game-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=165604","title":{"rendered":"&#039;We want a Bafta this time&#039;: Krept and Konan on TV hit The Rap Game UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when talent shows feel pass\u00e9, the BBC Three series has revived the genre for a younger audience. Now its rap star hosts just have to find a star &#8230; \u201cWe wanted to win, to be honest. The nomination thing is sick, but we\u2019re not really the nomination dons \u2013 we\u2019re the winner dons.\u201d I am talking to UK rap star Konan, of the chart-topping duo Krept and Konan, as the pair sit in the back of a people carrier outside a warehouse on an industrial estate in Birmingham, which doubles as their dressing room. This unglamorous location is, in fact, the nerve centre of the pair\u2019s hit TV show, The Rap Game UK. The BBC Three show was nominated for a TV Bafta in the entertainment category, losing out to Strictly Come Dancing (\u201cWe\u2019ll just go again next year,\u201d says Konan) and proved a surprise hit in a landscape where TV music contests such as The X Factor now feel pass\u00e9.It is early September, and my set visit comes as production is restarting on TV projects across the country following months of Covid restrictions. The vibe is upbeat \u2013 it feels as if everyone is grateful to be out of the house and eager to work on something. The show\u2019s co-host, DJ Target, has spotted a model Triceratops outside and is posing for a corny photo with his leg in its mouth. The rapper Wretch 32, this week\u2019s guest mentor, is all smiles as he films pieces to camera. Konan groans as he opens the foil package that has been passed to him: pasta with cheese. \u201cDo you want to share it,\u201d he asks. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/oct\/22\/we-want-a-bafta-this-time-krept-and-konan-on-tv-hit-the-rap-game-uk\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;We want a Bafta this time&#039;: Krept and Konan on TV hit The Rap Game UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when talent shows feel pass\u00e9, the BBC Three series has revived the genre for a younger audience. Now its rap star hosts just have to find a star &#8230; \u201cWe wanted to win, to be honest. The nomination thing is sick, but we\u2019re not really the nomination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}