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Rapman
Andrew Onwubolu MBE, better known by his stage name Rapman, is a British rapper, record producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his three-part YouTube series Shiro's Story (2018), his debut feature film Blue Story (2019), and the Netflix superhero series Supacell (2024)
He made his debut with the Blue Story Trilogy (2013–2014), which he followed up with several charity music videos for SB.TV including Hope (2015), Pay As You Go (2016), and Promise (2017). After the success of Shiro's Story (2018), he signed with Jay-Z's Roc Nation.
Rapman was appointed MBE in the 2022 Birthday Honours from Elizabeth II for services to drama and music.
Andrew Onwubolu was born in Deptford, London, of an Igbo mother and Yoruba father. His father was an engineer.
He was raised by his mother and from age 11 attended Sacred Heart Catholic School, Camberwell, in the midst of a postcode war[further explanation needed] between Deptford and Peckham.
Rapman made his debut with the Blue Story Trilogy (2013–2014), which depicted two best friends from different areas of London (Peckham and Deptford) who find themselves becoming enemies in a violent and insidious postcode war between their respective areas. The series was released on the YouTube channel SB.TV and gained positive feedback.[citation needed]
Following the success of Blue Story, Rapman began collaborating with SBTV founder Jamal Edwards on several charity music videos for the channel. These included Hope (2015), which dealt with blood donors, Rollercoaster (2016) which dealt with suicide, Pay As You Go (also 2016), which dealt with unemployed fathers, and Promise (2017), a short film produced for Comic Relief 2017, which dealt with domestic abuse.[citation needed]
In 2018, Rapman created wrote, directed and produced the three-part YouTube musical crime drama series Shiro's Story, about a young Black man from London who enters a violent life of crime after he learns that his girlfriend's daughter is actually his best friend's. The series was inspired by a true story that Rapman heard from friends in Lewisham about a man whose daughter was actually his friend's.
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Rapman
Andrew Onwubolu MBE, better known by his stage name Rapman, is a British rapper, record producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his three-part YouTube series Shiro's Story (2018), his debut feature film Blue Story (2019), and the Netflix superhero series Supacell (2024)
He made his debut with the Blue Story Trilogy (2013–2014), which he followed up with several charity music videos for SB.TV including Hope (2015), Pay As You Go (2016), and Promise (2017). After the success of Shiro's Story (2018), he signed with Jay-Z's Roc Nation.
Rapman was appointed MBE in the 2022 Birthday Honours from Elizabeth II for services to drama and music.
Andrew Onwubolu was born in Deptford, London, of an Igbo mother and Yoruba father. His father was an engineer.
He was raised by his mother and from age 11 attended Sacred Heart Catholic School, Camberwell, in the midst of a postcode war[further explanation needed] between Deptford and Peckham.
Rapman made his debut with the Blue Story Trilogy (2013–2014), which depicted two best friends from different areas of London (Peckham and Deptford) who find themselves becoming enemies in a violent and insidious postcode war between their respective areas. The series was released on the YouTube channel SB.TV and gained positive feedback.[citation needed]
Following the success of Blue Story, Rapman began collaborating with SBTV founder Jamal Edwards on several charity music videos for the channel. These included Hope (2015), which dealt with blood donors, Rollercoaster (2016) which dealt with suicide, Pay As You Go (also 2016), which dealt with unemployed fathers, and Promise (2017), a short film produced for Comic Relief 2017, which dealt with domestic abuse.[citation needed]
In 2018, Rapman created wrote, directed and produced the three-part YouTube musical crime drama series Shiro's Story, about a young Black man from London who enters a violent life of crime after he learns that his girlfriend's daughter is actually his best friend's. The series was inspired by a true story that Rapman heard from friends in Lewisham about a man whose daughter was actually his friend's.