- That slide slide slide.
♪ I wish that I could find a girl just like my mama ♪
(muffled speaking)
- There's Drake, oh my god.
It's Drake, oh it's Drake!
(hiphop music)
- It's surreal to be given the opportunity to do it again
after such a long period of time.
The minute I got my hair cut into
the shade and trim, I was good to go.
You can look at culture in the UK right now,
you look at music and we're exploring a lot.
We're giving a lot of our product to the rest of the world.
So I just felt like it was perfect timing actually
the six year gap that came by accident,
actually made it perfect.
I think the world right now is ready for the show.
(heavy bass music)
(laughter)
- I became attached to the characters and I brought it up
to my manager, my partner in crime, I said
"Yo, we should try and bring this back."
- He always says to me when I talk to him
that he's a fan of show first and foremost,
he's passionate about the show because he likes it
and you couldn't get a better ambassador.
- Who's this, Michael Ward?
Michael ward?
- It's actually happening man, I can't believe it.
It still doesn't feel real to me.
I obviously started as a fan so I just want
everyone to see what I've seen because what I've watched,
I've obviously watched it as a fan
and then I know we've created something special
and I can't wait for everyone to see it.
I met Ashley back in '14,'15 begging him
for a role in Top Boy.
- You need to read it aloud.
- Wow the man's just taking it in, but please read it.
- Hello Ashley just thought it was worth a try to DM you
to see if you have any productions, please
could you get me a role, I wanna be as big as you one day.
(applause)
- Hold on there's more, there's more, there's more.
- How do I go about getting a casting for Top Boy?
Please reply.
- Crying emoji, Crying emoji.
- It's mad.
(upbeat music)
- To think this was like all in the works a year ago
and now we're on a premier, at the premier it's crazy.
We've come to Netflix now we've still kept that rawness,
we've still kept that edge, and that as well was so
beautiful on screen and so cinematic
and I think everyone's going to love it.
I've been a fan of the show for so long
and to now know that I'm going to be a part of the season
was crazy, I called my mom straight away
and was like, "guess what?"
- Twelve years ago, literally around the corner from here,
I saw a kid on the street, dealing drugs
and that was the inspiration for Top Boy.
So to go from there to here, has been a journey.
- The top, its worth losing your people, your family.
- The slogan for this journey that we're going on is
It's crowded at the top, to be undisputed to where your
peers respect and fear you at the same time
that to me is Top Boy.
- Whatever mindset to get to the top
you have to fight for what you want.