Rap group ONEFOUR still can't perform without a heavy police presence. Is it safety or censorship?

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As the members of rap group ONEFOUR try to build a life away from the tough neighbourhoods they grew up in, they have accrued millions of views on YouTube and been nominated for three ARIA music awards. But they struggle to perform live and claim it's because they’re under the surveillance NSW's most elite police unit.

For rapper Jerome Misa - aka J Emz - having police walk into his room unannounced had become so normal he didn’t even think it was "that bad". "There was a time period where I was staying in a garage back at my old place when I did stay with my parents and just come and lift the garage up, walk in, have a walk around my room and shit like that," he told The Feed.

were using that had the possibility of inciting the acts of violence that the street gangs were committing," she explained in the Netflix documentary. It's been reported the group’s name - YP, Celly and Lekks - were jailed for their roles in the 2018 Rooty Hill pub brawl. The sentencing judge, Justice James Bennett, said the brawl was sparked by an argument between two groups including "racial comments, perhaps extending to slurs". YP was charged with reckless grievous bodily harm for beating a man in the back of the head with a chair leg and sentenced to four years in prison with a two-year non-parole period. He was released in December 2021.

show. "We didn't say they couldn’t perform," she said in the documentary. "We said we're concerned that if this concert goes ahead the 's manager Ricky Simandjuntak said in the documentary he received a message from a booking agent saying that Raptor had approached venues in Melbourne and Adelaide. The Melbourne venue soon pulled out and Simandjuntak said day by day, the remaining Australian venues all pulled out, the only show that went ahead was in Auckland. Spenny was the only member to perform that show as YP, Celly and Lekks were not able to leave the country due to their upcoming court dates.

 

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