Notorious gangster uses YouTube to launch big money rap career in prison. Not everyone's happy
Jordan McCann was in prison when the song that put him on the UK rap music radar was released. Titled ‘Lifestyle’, the four minute song saw Jordan rap about his life of crime and mentioned the people he grew up with in Salford.
Recalling the day he says he was stripped down to his boxers by an overzealous armed police unit when he went to a meeting with his parole officer, Jordan says he understands it now. Looking at his rap sheet, he thinks he deserved it and then some. “It would burn me inside, whereas now I don’t have any of those tendencies. We just normalised everything, now I’m a bit older and see how people should treat each other.
"Who cares about the streets, who cares about who did what to who? I need to have a house, I need credit, I need a car, I want to have a baby, I want to have a dog, I want to have a life." One of the prisons Jordan was sent to as a troublesome youth was an infamous Secure Training Unit that has since been shut down, after an investigation revealed cases of historic physical and sexual abuse.
"But it was a very, very bad place, if you even look at the pictures of the building it gives you chills. To be honest, it made me worse, I didn't give a f*** anymore. “It caused a massive divide in the family, which is fair enough what they were doing, divide and conquer. Back then I was in a mind-frame where I hated the police, but now I understand my actions deserved that, and probably more.
The last year was the first 12 months Jordan completed without going back to jail. He's been kept busy by a music career that has seen him embark on a 21 city tour in just one week, amass millions of views on his music videos and work on his latest mixtape called Crooks and Queens, which was recorded at the iconic Abbey Road and features songs with well known artists like Morrison, Tion Wayne and Ard Adz.
Jordan began rapping in 2018 as part of a prison programme in HMP Nottingham. In the prison, inmates had to be in work or education and would be scheduled to take part in different courses. Jordan was eventually inspired to write by the lifers who were on the same course and were painfully expressing themselves through their own music. At 24, he wrote his first lyric for a song called 'Jailgirl' which was dedicated to an ex-girlfriend.
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