In Everyone Can Rap (ITV), a lovely, too-short film by Daniel Dempster, the south London rapper Youngs Teflon takes three everyday people who have never rapped before and sets about turning them into pros over the course of a single week. “Everyone can rap” is the theory but, at the start of it, Youngs Teflon – Tef to his mates – is not sure whether that theory will hold. Perhaps it’s more of a question. Can everyone rap? We’re about to find out.
Tef is working with three complete newcomers, all of whom have their own reasons for wanting to try something new. Nicole is 38, a London mum; she points out that usually, when Black mothers are seen on British television, it’s because they are suffering or in pain. She wants to put something different across. Also, she says, “I want to be vocal. I want to be loud for a day.”
