A notorious gangster who used YouTube to launch a successful rap career has turned his life around following a life of crime. Salford's Jordan McCann was serving time when his song 'Lifestyle' about his life of crime was released, which put him on the UK's rap scene radar, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Describing a moment in prison when he and fellow inmates heard the song play for the first time he told the Manchester Evening News: "I got everybody in the cell and we barricaded the pad and had a listening party. We just stayed there until they got all the extra staff to rush in the cell and get every one of us, because we were so hyped.
"All of us got in trouble, they took our tellies, everything, so we had nothing in our cells, but then I heard the song playing on Unity Radio, and that was the most surreal moment. It gives me goosebumps, I was looking out and every man is at his window shouting me, on four levels, that was the maddest feeling because I’m on radio bro, it was mad."
