London YouTuber and musician Amar Koomz has taken to Twitter to defend his first acting performance after receiving brutal criticism online from fans of the Netflix show Top Boy.
The British crime drama returned for season four which dropped on Friday night, with Drake (Aubrey Graham) serving as an executive producer on the hit show.
The series is set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in Hackney, London and revolves around the fictional drug gang and it’s leaders.
Top Boy was originally on Channel 4 but was cancelled after 2 seasons. It wasn't until Drake became a fan that led to its revival and Netflix became the show's new home.
Season four sees the return of Ashley Walters (Dushane Hill), Kane Robinson (Gerald "Sully" Sullivan), Micheal Ward (Jamie Tovell) and their expanding drug empire.
Fans went wild as the show returned, but many reacted online to the performance of Amar Koomz in what is his first official acting role on screen.
Fans' comments on Amar’s acting were brutal and Amar took to Twitter in response to the criticism and said: “I’ve never done drama or acting before in my life.. everyone’s got to start somewhere lol, I think I did quite good tbh #TopBoyNetflix”
One fan went as far as advising the budding actor to never act again and said: “do me a favour and never do drama or acting again”
Who is Amar Koomz?
Amar Kumar better known by his stage name ‘Koomz’, is a 22 year old British singer-songwriter, rapper and YouTuber from Brixton.
His music video for his song "Mariah" surpassed 10 million views on YouTube.
Amar launched his YouTube channel in 2016 and first focused on interviews, pranks and challenges.
In an interview with BBC, he spoke about his hit song ‘Mariah’, and his future plans.
The budding creative said: “I came from B16, a normal college guy, I thought I wanna get a part-time job because I want to do YouTube, I need money, so I worked in McDonald's, I worked for three months then had enough money to buy a DSLR camera.”
He shared that he left McDonald’s and started filming content for YouTube.
The Brixton native said: “The revenue started coming from YouTube, I didn’t know too much about record labels and stuff, just did it for passion.”
After putting out his song Mariah, he began to get emails from A&R’s.
He initially thought the emails were from trolls or fake accounts, he showed his friends who reassured him the contacts were legit from Sony.
“Relentless were the first record label to email me”, he said.
Following the release, he amassed over 2 million views on Spotify, which opened the door to more views and radio play.
Amar is of Bangladeshi descent and described being Asian in the industry as a hard game.
He stated, “You wouldn’t hear a lot of Asian artists coming up in the UK scene.”
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