When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed “low life scum” Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries, and politicians trying to silence their defiant sound—whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs, and hip-hop biopic, KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.
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00:00 Tell me something about you, something you've never told anyone else.
00:05 I'm a rapper.
00:07 There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland.
00:11 There's no way a language is a language without a language.
00:15 Braves have become rappers.
00:17 You may know the words, but you don't understand the language.
00:20 I think he's a bit too much into music.
00:22 He says he's a studio.
00:23 What?
00:24 And he's a bit too much into it.
00:25 What's wrong with him?
00:26 Well, he's not Abbey Roadie.
00:28 Abbey what?
00:30 This is the 808.
00:34 It's not a real car, but it's a car for people who like to have fun.
00:39 People who like to do hip-hop.
00:41 Do I look like I want to read subtitles?
00:45 One, two, three.
00:47 Instead of this here, it's the knock at the door before the knock at the door.
00:55 Him and his wee pals' music has drawn attention from all the wrong places.
00:59 Nothing but a H-double-O-D. No life scum.
01:03 Well, I end up face down in an alley.
01:05 You have a life, a career, a future.
01:09 Remember, I can take it all away from you like that.
01:11 Special delivery.
01:15 Hey!
01:16 No more music.
01:17 Every day I am not captured is a psychological victory against the occupiers.
01:21 Kneecap. So-called Irish language rappers promoting anti-social behavior and violence.
01:27 Steph, what's the talk of? Enough time, it's just useless.
01:31 I never want to see you again.
01:33 I never want to see you again.
01:34 Well, well, well, look who it is.
01:39 Bone thugs and no harmony.
01:40 Put those hoots.
01:43 Have to say, this city doesn't need to be here anymore.
01:46 He's here asserting his right to speak Irish.
01:48 A Belfast band has been criticized for chanting anti-British slogans.
01:52 Every fucking word he says is a pillar of shit from that city of Ireland.
01:58 And it's a pillar indeed.
02:00 Why don't you just speak the Queen's English?
02:06 I'm not going to let you go without fucking creating a new Dr. Dre.
02:13 You know Dr. Dre in Ireland?
02:15 I'm not going to let you go without fucking creating a new Dr. Dre.
02:18 I'm not going to let you go without fucking creating a new Dr. Dre.
02:20 [BLANK_AUDIO]