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Every episode of both series, the nine-part film of how it got made, and the people who stepped to the mic.
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Sixteen straight Thursdays
Series 2 and the docuseries did not run side by side — they took turns. A freestyle dropped one week, the film of how it was made dropped the next, for sixteen weeks without a gap.
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Three of the twenty-sixPeople don't just watch it. They rate it.
Every freestyle in the catalogue lands between 18 and 43 likes for every thousand views, and the average sits at 31. Two series, two completely different looks, nineteen artists — and the response barely moves.
The warmest reactions come from the episodes furthest off the algorithm's beaten track. Which is the whole point of the platform: these are the names most people haven't heard yet, and the ones who find them do not stay quiet about it.
1,000 views
on average
Likes per 1,000 views — every freestyle falls inside the orange band
Series 1
Outdoors across London, every other Sunday. Grey concrete and a stamped title card.
10 episodes · 2019—2020Series 2
Indoors on a Victorian cell-block set. Tungsten, iron bars and a gold script.
7 episodes · 2022The Docuseries
Nine films on how Series 2 got made, one week behind each freestyle.
9 films · 2022A freestyle series built to catch UK drill artists before the rest of the country did.
Series 1 ran ten episodes outdoors through late 2019 — car parks, estate walkways, the loading bay behind a rehearsal studio — dropping every other Sunday from 15 September. The title card was stamped straight onto the frame in wide, letterspaced caps.
Two years later Series 2 moved indoors into a Victorian cell block — iron bars, brick, a rules-and-regulations board on the wall — and brought a documentary crew with it. Seven freestyles, nine films, one drop a week.
Walkz
Producer, presenter, camera-caller. Walkz made every beat in the catalogue and ran every shoot himself. The channel now runs on interviews, studio sessions and reactions — 222,000 subscribers and 3,100 videos deep.
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