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<\/p>\n\u201cLike all genres of music rap can be used to benefit social conscience or it can be used to attack it, and we would see this as an attack\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Jordan McCann who wrote a hit song while on parole from prison has racked up millions of views on social media and says he is making six-figures from his new career.<\/p>\n
While previous songs have been about the danger and lure of the gangster lifestyle his latest offering suggests Ireland is troubled by violence due to migrants.<\/p>\n
Also featuring on the song \u2018Free Ireland\u2019 which this week already had nearly 500,000 views on YouTube, is Dublin singer Conor McLoughlin.<\/p>\n
One of the lines in the song reads: \u201cFree, free, free Ireland from all the trouble and the violence. Free, free, free Ireland from all guards and the migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
The video for the song that was posted on YouTube starts with a man in Dublin shouting at a line of gardai in riot gear: \u201cThe batterings will continue until the plantation is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea that people in European countries are being replaced and their countries \u2018planted\u2019 is an international far-right conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n
The introduction also features clip from the November riots in Dublin in the wake of a young child and others being stabbed in Parnell Square.<\/p>\n
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Convicted crminal turned rapper Jordan McCann (black hat) in Dublin<\/p>\n
News in 90 Seconds – August 16th <\/p>\n
The video was filmed in several well-known tourist site in Dublin including Merchant\u2019s Arch, the GPO, O\u2019Connell Street, the city quays as well as in Jobstown and at Johnnie Fox\u2019s pub in the Dublin Mountains.<\/p>\n
McCann also alludes to his Irish roots in the track and how his \u201cgrandfather left on a boat for England\u201d and \u201cIrish to the core, so it\u2019s Guinness that I\u2019m drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other lyrics are less sympathetic to immigrants: \u201cHeroes got blasted and died for these bastards so open the floodgates, swear that is backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gardai are seen intervening as McCann filmed on O\u2019Connell Street last month where a crowd gathered around him.<\/p>\n
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The video also features Conor McLoughlin<\/p>\n
The music video finishes with a photograph of Michael Collins and a quote from the revolutionary leader on Irish nationality.<\/p>\n
Damian Farrell of Dublin Communities Against Racism (DCAR) said that while he was not aware of McCann\u2019s video specifically, he believes they are not representative of the majority of people.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally speaking, rap artists like this have a media platform and inherit a space where the person who is the loudest is heard the most.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are able to broadcast and amplify what is after all just their opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, a lot of the work we do is in dispelling the narrative that these videos are the only message out there. They\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
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McCann and McLoughlin in the video<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the hidden voices that Dublin Communities Against Racism represent that we are trying to encourage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe work with a wide range of ethnic minorities in doing more to make those voices heard without putting themselves in physical danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople like rap music\u201d, Mr Farrell added, \u201cand like all genres of music it can be used to benefit social conscience or it can be used to attack it, and we would see this as an attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the exploitation of fake sense of nationalism that is promoted through the anti-immigration campaign and elected representatives who should know better creates a society that is of no use to anyone.<\/p>\n
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One of the scenes shot at Johnnie Foxes in Dublin<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people who are involved in these kinds of videos are not being empowered, they are being used and exploited in a way that, ironically, is the same as they use immigrants to blame for all the ills in our society that we are endeavouring to combat.\u201d<\/p>\n
The music clip also features Conor McLoughlin who last year won the approval of five judges during an episode of The Voice on ITV.<\/p>\n
He appeared at the blind auditions and won the attention from each of the celebrity judges with his rendition of Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u2018I See Fire\u2019.<\/p>\n
Tom Jones, will.i.am, Leann Rimes, Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones hit their button to turn their chairs around.<\/p>\n
He previously took part in BBC\u2019s Let It Shine in 2017.<\/p>\n
While in west Dublin Jordan McCann stopped to pose for pics with Lee McDonnell a notorious violent criminal.<\/p>\n
McDonnell has 133 previous convictions, including for robbery, aggravated burglary and escaping from lawful custody.<\/p>\n
He was part of a group of young west Dublin criminals who were causing havoc in their late teens and early 20s who had been mentored by older criminals with links to veteran gangster Derek \u2018Dee Dee\u2019 O\u2019Driscoll.<\/p>\n
McDonnell previously hit the headlines going on the run for five weeks after escaping from a prison van in Inchicore after prison officers stopped at a chipper.<\/p>\n
Compared to O\u2019Loughlin McCann\u2019s route to showbiz has been a lot tougher who has said interviews that he grew up in jail.<\/p>\n
In 2016 he was among 13 people subject to court orders sought by police in Manchester and Salford to stop a gang feud after a series of shootings.<\/p>\n
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One of the scenes featured in the video<\/p>\n
He belonged to a well-known criminal family in Salford, Greater Manchester, and has been convicted of violent crime, armed robbery, gang affiliations and drug dealing.<\/p>\n
He was in prison when his breakthrough moment came as his Lifestyle track was released and proved to be a big success.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Manchester Evening News in 2023 he said he realised he had to turn away from crime after being sentenced to six and a half years aged 19.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just thinking, \u2018I\u2019m not coming home now for years, I\u2019m living around all these same people, I lived by this f***ing code, I\u2019ve been the [most loyal] guy, I\u2019ve been the realest guy\u2019 and it does get you nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just realised, \u2018bang\u2019 this life is the fakest life in the world\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter growing up in prison and seeing so many scenarios and people I\u2019ve looked up to and seeing some of the moves that they pull themselves, I realised it\u2019s inevitable in this life bad things are gonna come.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing good\u2019s gonna come, when money gets involved, when girls get involved people are gonna f*** people over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLike all genres of music rap can be used to benefit social conscience or it can be used…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-350799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115042199276189408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}