COCONUT UNLIMITED
Nikesh Shukla
‘A unique, bittersweet,
tragi-geek celebration of beats, rhymes, and growing up. Nikesh Shukla
captures the excitement, delusions, and creative confusion of
adolescence with disarming honesty and laugh-out-loud insight.’
Riz Ahmed AKA Riz MC, star of Four
Lions
Coconut Unlimited
follows the adventures of three hapless, hip-hop obsessed Asian boys in
an all-white private school.
It’s Harrow in the 1990s, and Amit, Anand and Nishant are stuck. Their
peers think they’re a bunch of try-hard darkies, acting street and
pretending to be cool, while their community thinks they’re rich toffs,
a long way from the ‘real’ Asians in Southall.
So, to keep it real, they form legendary hip-hop band ‘Coconut
Unlimited’.
Pity they can’t rap...
From struggling to find records in the suburbs and rehearsing on
rubbish equipment, to evading the clutches of disapproving parents and
real life drug-dealing gangsters, Coconut
Unlimited documents every teenage boy’s dream and the
motivations behind it: being in a band to look pretty cool – oh, and
get girls...
Patrick Neate, author of Jerusalem and Twelve Bar Blues
‘Charming, funny and connects to the wannabe gangster in all of us.’
Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine
‘Coconut Unlimited is dope. A Brit-Asian Rotters’ Club that is both a loving homage to hip-hop and a fresh take on the English comic novel. Carry On Rapping...’
Niven Govinden, author of Graffiti My Soul
‘Laugh out loud and refreshingly honest. The hip-hop soundtrack thumps like a bassline from beginning to end.’
Anita Rani, presenter and journalist
‘Like Goodness Gracious Me being channelled by Flava Flav...’
Bobby Friction, DJ and broadcaster
‘An absolute killer of a book that perfectly captures the suburban quest for Rap Stardom. Grab your crotch and bust a lyric into your hairbrush handle...’
Charlie Dark, writer, producer and DJ