1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:08,560 [tense music playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,280 [woman 1 on radio] Onefour are Australia's first drill rappers. 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,320 The genre is defined in part by lyrics laden with graphic descriptions 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,000 of violence, including gang warfare. 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,080 [woman 2] They say that, uh, children as young as 13 8 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,840 are joining these so-called gangs 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,600 that are modeling themselves on violent US rap culture. 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,560 [man 1] We're saying that the music that they're promoting 11 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,040 is inciting violence. 12 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,360 The public would expect us to shut that down. 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,080 Stay out of sight, out of mind, 14 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,440 while we get the cops on that side of the building, just so… 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,240 We've gotta stay here, stay out of sight, just in case they jeopardize the show. 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,520 [man 2] I don't know how comfortable I'd feel having a child of mine 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,160 going to one of these concerts 'cause I'm scared there'll be conflict. 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:03,640 [man 3] Yeah, there'll be conflict. 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,920 [man 4] The Onefour boys, they are amazing songwriters. 20 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,560 You hear it, and, um, and you believe it, you know. 21 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,520 They've made the biggest cultural impact on the scene in Australia 22 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,320 and haven't been able to perform here. 23 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,080 [man 5] Onefour have become the biggest hip-hop group in this country, 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,640 but the police won't let them perform to their fans. 25 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,040 Every single gig they do just gets shut down. 26 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,360 This story is crazy. They're like the N.W.A. from this country. 27 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,000 [man 6] Pretty much, yeah. 28 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,920 [Laroi] The way police handled that situation was fucking ridiculous. 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,440 We pray, Father, this time that the show will not be disrupted 30 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,080 by any means whatsoever. 31 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,640 [man 7] I feel like we've come so far, but if we can't do the show, it's over. 32 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,120 [tense, suspenseful music playing] 33 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,080 [man 2] We have intelligence that there is a likelihood of conflict. 34 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,240 There's no way there'll be a performance here in New South Wales, 35 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,360 and I'll do everything I can to stop it. 36 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,440 ["In the Beginning" by Onefour playing] 37 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:06,400 ♪ Uh-huh ♪ 38 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,360 -♪ Hey ♪ -♪ Hey ♪ 39 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:12,480 ♪ In the beginning ♪ 40 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,160 -♪ There was only me and the gang -♪ True ♪ 41 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,600 ♪ Introduced this country to drillin' All of a sudden, they wanna bang ♪ 42 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,440 ♪ All of a sudden they all wanna rap Deal, sing, and loot ♪ 43 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,840 ♪ All of a sudden they all wanna trap Drill, ching, and shoot ♪ 44 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,040 ♪ Trap, drill, ching, and shoot In the beginning ♪ 45 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,560 -♪ It was only me and the gang ♪ -♪ Gang ♪ 46 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:30,520 ♪ Introduced this country to drillin' All of a sudden, they all wanna… ♪ 47 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,680 -[gunshot] -♪ All of a sudden they all wanna trap ♪ 48 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,480 ♪ Drill, ching, and shoot ♪ 49 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,200 ♪ All of a sudden, they all wanna trap Drill ching, and shoot ♪ 50 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:38,560 ♪ Trap, drill, ching, and shoot ♪ 51 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:39,600 ♪ In the beginning ♪ 52 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,680 -♪ It was only me and the gang ♪ -♪ Gang ♪ 53 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,320 ♪ Introduced this country to drillin' All of a sudden, they all wanna… ♪ 54 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,680 -[gunshots] -♪ They wanna trap, drill, ching, shoot ♪ 55 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,080 ♪ All of a sudden, they all wanna trap Drill, ching, and shoot ♪ 56 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,760 -♪ Trap, drill, ching, and shoot ♪ -[gun cocks] 57 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,600 [gunshot echoing] 58 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,440 [suspenseful music playing] 59 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,280 I never thought of music as something that, you know, 60 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,080 I would end up taking as a career. 61 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,400 We didn't see it as people like us can do music. 62 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:14,680 It wasn't an option. 63 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,160 [Spenny] We grew up in Mount Druitt. 64 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,120 It's a suburb on the outskirts of Western Sydney. 65 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,720 There's a really big Islander community out there. 66 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,600 And we're Samoan. [chuckles] 67 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,520 I've known most of the boys all my life. I grew up with them. 68 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,080 We were just normal kids, always playing with other the kids in the street. 69 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:35,680 [girl] Just leave it there. 70 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,680 We come from the church. Don't know how the fuck we ended up like this. 71 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,560 [YP] We didn't really know it at the time, but Mount Druitt back then was, like… 72 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:51,760 [engine revving] 73 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:52,800 …it was hectic. 74 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,320 [Spenny] It has that stigma around it, a place that no one really cares about. 75 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,880 Growing up in Mount Druitt, 76 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,920 there was only, like, three options for Islanders. 77 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,960 Either footie, the factory, or a life of crime. 78 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:08,840 [YP] In high school, 79 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,040 they had this Islander class where they'd try to give advice. 80 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,960 He was telling us, "Youse are all going to jail." 81 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:17,920 "Like, every single one of youse." 82 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:23,360 I remember, like, the first time I ever watched the news, 83 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,800 it was one of the lads from church just got his head caved in 84 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,880 from another group of boys, yeah. 85 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,400 [whooping on video] 86 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,680 After that, any time I watched the news, it was always about Mount Druitt, 87 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,840 and if they ever spoke about Mount Druitt, it was just negative. 88 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,800 [man 1] Mount Druitt. It's also Sydney, just not the one in the tourist brochures. 89 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,560 [man 2] You don't wanna go to Mount Druitt after dark. 90 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,640 [chuckling] No, you… you really don't. 91 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,560 Community groups are pleading for help, with young people scared to go outside. 92 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,480 For us to feel safe, it was just to build this bond 93 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,640 where we can, like, go around the streets and that, 94 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,400 and it was like, "You got my back, I got your back." 95 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,360 The whole reason the boys started chilling together was… 96 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,000 was one of our mates ended up getting jumped, like, real bad. 97 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,360 [yelling, jeering] 98 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,040 [YP] And then the boys come back, 99 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,760 and they were just like, "What are we gonna do?" You know? 100 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,120 Like, "We can't just sit here." 101 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,560 And so after that, we started walking around deep. 102 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,760 If someone was to cross us, boom, jump straight into it. 103 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,720 [J Emz] Everyone had their Rambos ready and their blades and shit. 104 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,040 But we've always seen it as a family from the jump, 105 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,320 so when they labeled us a gang, we… 106 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,920 we already knew how they were trying to portray us. 107 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,400 We've always had run-ins with police. They just look at us as, like, criminals. 108 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,760 They used to bash us. That's what they used to do. 109 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:49,240 [officer] I got a gun, mate. 110 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:50,960 Stay back. 111 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,200 I got a gun. 112 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,240 [J Emz] This was a time in our lives where we were always getting into trouble, 113 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,800 going off the rails a bit. 114 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,440 [indistinct background chatter] 115 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,400 [J Emz] But then we, um… discovered Street Uni. 116 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,080 We didn't realize at that time how important it would be. 117 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,880 Esky was the youth leader just taking care of us headaches. 118 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,080 [man] Street University is a youth center. 119 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,600 It's the place where they can belong and feel safe 120 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,360 outside of the streets that surround us in Mount Druitt. 121 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,200 We provide resources and programs 122 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:34,840 that young people wouldn't usually get involved with, 123 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,280 and one of the ways that we engaged them 124 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,200 was through the recording studio. 125 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,640 [J Emz] When they introduced us to the little studio they had, 126 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:42,640 we were stuck on it. 127 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,640 It was, like, a free recording studio, so it was perfect for us, 128 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,840 'cause at the time, we didn't have any money. 129 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,880 [J Emz] We got into it straightaway. We loved it. 130 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:52,800 Like, "Shit, we could do something like that." 131 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,760 I really felt grateful that they had something to channel their energy into 132 00:06:56,840 --> 00:07:00,160 other than the mischief they were getting up to. 133 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,280 So I was like, "Man, if you guys are… 134 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,000 if that's your thing, it's gonna keep you out of trouble, 135 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,800 keep you busy so you're not on the streets, 136 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:08,040 I'm good with that." 137 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,040 [chuckling] 138 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:11,720 -Mwah! -[chuckles] 139 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,640 [Esky] J Emz was definitely the leader. 140 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,600 He would turn to his group and be like, "All right, you guys sit there." 141 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,040 "You sit behind the desk." 142 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,520 "I'm just gonna jump on the mic, and we're gonna start." 143 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,280 Spenny… 144 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,080 I heard of Spenny before I met him. 145 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,600 He was known as the guy that was in front 146 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,000 when it came to, like, the brawls. 147 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,480 [J Emz] I think Spenny, he was just always that hard case. 148 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,280 The only way he knew how to solve something was fight. 149 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:42,760 [chuckles] 150 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,160 [J Emz] YP, that's my younger brother, my blood brother. 151 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,360 He was always the youngest in the crew. 152 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,000 They were like, "Yo, yo, Esky, listen to this," 153 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,680 and they would show me one of the songs, 154 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,040 so I'm listening to it, and I'm like, "Whose voice is that?" 155 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:56,920 J Emz is like, "That's my brother, YP." 156 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,480 And I was like, "Wow, bro, a family of musicians." 157 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,120 If I was to describe Cell, yeah, it'll be… 158 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,200 He's a loose cannon, yeah. He's just… You know, he had it rough growing up. 159 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,080 [J Emz] See, Celly, he always had talent in rap. He loved rapping. 160 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,800 He wanted to use his rap skills 161 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,360 to paint a picture of what it's like to grow up in Housing Commission. 162 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,760 [J Emz] So Lekks, he used to work at Street Uni. 163 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,880 Yeah, he was just like that older bro 164 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,120 that helped us out in the studio when we started locking in. 165 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,960 [YP] Lekks was always a rap-head. He… He… He loved his music, you know? 166 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,000 I remember the first time he showed me Harlem Spartans, 167 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:43,680 which was the drill group that he was being influenced by. 168 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,720 Lekks goes, "This is the future of Australian hip-hop right here." 169 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,400 [rapping] 170 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,080 [slurping] 171 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,280 Ah, drill music. Yeah. Fun for the whole family. 172 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,240 I guess it's a style of rap music. Emerged out of Chicago 173 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,920 in the early part of the last decade, throughout the 2010s. 174 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,120 It was kind of like a shock to the hip-hop scene. 175 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,080 It was just very abrasive and very raw. 176 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,280 A more violent, gritty kind of hip-hop 177 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,440 with pretty explicit lyrics referring to what life on the streets was like. 178 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,600 A lot of references to stabbings, to shootings. 179 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,280 It became part of the international hip-hop mainstream 180 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,120 when it crossed over into the UK, particularly into London and South London. 181 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,440 [man] What Onefour gravitated towards was, like, the UK version of drill. 182 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,400 Drill is dark, and it's scary. It's like a horror movie almost. 183 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,200 And I think drill really did speak to them when they heard it, 184 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,520 'cause that's exactly what they were going through. 185 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,240 We loved it. Like, "Shit, we could do something like that." 186 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,080 So when we started experimenting, we started making drill. 187 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,480 ♪ Ready to do suttin' ♪ 188 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,560 ♪ Every single one say F-T-P Fuck you pigs, release my Gs ♪ 189 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,120 ♪ We're Mount Druitt's real recipe ♪ 190 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,840 [rapping indistinctly] 191 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,480 [Esky] Before Onefour was even a group, 192 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:59,800 they were known in the area as a… 193 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:01,600 I hate using the word "gang," 194 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,000 but that's… that's what they were known for. 195 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:06,040 ♪ Gotta say something… ♪ 196 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,000 [Esky] In the early Onefour tracks, 197 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,560 that they were really talking about the violence in the streets. 198 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:13,720 [rapping] 199 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,040 [Esky] Spenny, one day, he attended my music workshops. 200 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,280 We were gonna go around in a circle and just share what we wrote. 201 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,280 And as he was sharing, 202 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,600 some of the boys from Onefour walked past the door and was like, 203 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:33,200 "Spenny, we gotta go. There's something going down." 204 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,000 And Spenny looks at me, and he's like, "Oh, sorry, man." 205 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:38,440 I'm like, "Nah, it's all good." 206 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,360 And Spenny, like, you know, dropped the notepad, 207 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,000 and then he left out the door. 208 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:44,960 It's like this yin and yang. 209 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,600 You have the street, 210 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:48,640 and then you have the music. 211 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,120 [indistinct jeering] 212 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,080 [whooping] 213 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,800 [man] A version of postcode wars happens all over the world, 214 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,520 from South Central LA to, you know, Brixton. 215 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,040 It's young people who find small communities, 216 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,080 and they'll defend that at any cost, 217 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,440 even when it gets tested by an opposing neighborhood. 218 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,080 There's always been drama with, you know, certain areas. 219 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,640 I don't know how it started and all the history behind it. 220 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,120 I just guess growing up around it, we got sucked into it. 221 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,760 Got to a point where you couldn't escape it at all. 222 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,760 [Mahmood] When I was involved, uh, in that world, 223 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,080 I experienced multiple deaths. 224 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,880 [voice cracking] Um… gang murders, essentially. 225 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,920 All young people in their twenties. 226 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,800 It turned my life around, and, uh, now I work as a journalist. 227 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:39,520 Violence becomes the means for you to achieve a status in these areas. 228 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,520 Like, the only way you can create an identity for yourself 229 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:44,840 is through violence. 230 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,280 Well, police have just completed a citywide crackdown 231 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,400 on violent crime and weapons possession. 232 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,000 [man] There has been ongoing conflict between two rival gangs, 233 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,320 primarily involving Pacific Islanders. 234 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,640 Rest assured that every single day, 235 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,760 there are men and women in this organization 236 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,000 who are doing their best to fight those involved in conflict 237 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,200 for the purpose of making our streets and communities safe. 238 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:11,240 [Osman] In this case, Onefour falls under the banner of "Mounty County," 239 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,000 which is the 2770 postcode in Greater Western Sydney, 240 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,360 and they were at war with the Inner West Brotherhood 241 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,800 or the 21 District. 242 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,920 ♪ Tryna come around, shoulda told 'em ♪ 243 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,280 [rapping] 244 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,840 ♪ Seventy, sixty… ♪ 245 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:37,160 [Spenny] In drill tracks, a big part of the music is you also diss as well. 246 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,080 ♪ Check yourself, how you act… ♪ 247 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,280 [YP] I never wanted to rap until I seen it as a way 248 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,720 where I can diss people I didn't like. 249 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,760 When I went in the studio, it was just literally just me, 250 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,400 like, passionate and knowing, yeah, I'm gonna offend these guys with this shit 251 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,520 because, like, you know, they got one of our friends. 252 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,920 After that, it was like they crossed a line. 253 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,000 And it sounds crazy, but that's literally why I loved making my music. 254 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,920 I loved hurting, like, their feelings. 255 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,480 [man] With drill music, that's all you made, was diss tracks. 256 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:10,840 With that kind of platform of making music 257 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:15,880 and being able to tell your story coupled with social media, 258 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,400 you know, it's like, that's a shitstorm. 259 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:21,520 [Esky] I was worried that some of the songs 260 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,720 were obviously gonna exacerbate the violence in the area. 261 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,240 One time, there was this incident at the train station. 262 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:33,040 Word got around that people from another postcode were coming down, 263 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,960 so there was gonna be a massive brawl. 264 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,040 At that brawl, a Molotov was thrown in that tunnel. 265 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:40,360 [panicked screaming] 266 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,440 [terrified screaming] 267 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,840 [Esky] We… said this needs to stop. 268 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:49,480 Big high hopes, right, 269 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,000 um, to try and stop something that's been happening for decades. 270 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,440 There's always gonna be conflict. There's always gonna be drama. 271 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:01,480 We were just doing whatever we wanted, and trouble was like a normal thing. 272 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:04,800 After that, something ended up happening, and I ended up going to jail. 273 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,040 We ended up just getting into an altercation with another group of boys, 274 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,240 and it just escalated. 275 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:12,960 [indistinct yelling] 276 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,040 It was pretty bad. 277 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,520 -[camera shutter clicks] -[Spenny] J Emz went to jail. 278 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,720 Without him there, maybe four or five months later, 279 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,400 YP started to fall into trouble as well. 280 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,000 [Misa] That night at the pub… 281 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,280 Um… 282 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,480 That… that night was a killer night for us. 283 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,560 I don't blame any of the other boys. I don't put it on them. He… 284 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,400 He did the… His actions are his actions, but… 285 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,400 Ah. 286 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,440 [ominous music playing] 287 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,880 [YP] We just went to one of the boys' birthdays. 288 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,440 These Aussie lads were just, like, talking out of school. 289 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,760 They were being very rude and racist. 290 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,960 Lekks is helpless. You know, he can't do nothing. 291 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:58,800 So we just… we just jumped. 292 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,160 Wasn't a question, you know? 293 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,240 I practically did what I felt was right at the time and just… 294 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:07,720 Yeah. 295 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,400 Could've been a lot different. We could've went and spoke to 'em, 296 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,720 but that was just the way we… we handled it. 297 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,720 We didn't know how to talk back then. 298 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,520 [sirens approaching] 299 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,040 [sirens wailing] 300 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,440 I just remember feeling, like, my heart sink. 301 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:31,560 [chuckles sadly] 302 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,640 [Esky] It was really disappointing 303 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,360 because they were just starting to turn their lives around, 304 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,080 and then this happens. 305 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,520 They're back in trouble with the police again. 306 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:47,200 Me, Cell, and my other coeys, yeah, we all made bail that night, 307 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,040 and I was like, "We're gonna beat this. Don't worry, Mum. We're straight." 308 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,360 [Spenny] YP, Celly, and Lekks were waiting for sentencing. 309 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,720 While they were waiting, the music started to pick up. 310 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,200 ["What You Know" by Onefour playing] 311 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,720 ♪ What you know about hopping the fences? What you know about dodging the fences? ♪ 312 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,320 ♪ What you know about being a soldier And holding your own… ♪ 313 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,600 [Spenny] We were in the studio, like, every day. 314 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,680 We ended up making "What You Know." 315 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,680 ♪ About being a soldier And holding your own… ♪ 316 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,760 Oh yeah, we got a bit of radio play on that song. 317 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,080 On Triple J. There's the Hip-Hop Show, Hauie's show. 318 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,280 [rapping] 319 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:24,760 I was following the progression of the group, 320 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,080 and they started promoting their new single. 321 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,880 ♪ Streets, feds come question me about… ♪ 322 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,760 [Hau] The musicianship of Onefour really sets them apart. 323 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,640 Not only their abilities and their… their mind for music 324 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,560 but also them being the first of their sound in Australia. 325 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,120 I was like, "Okay, these guys have got it." 326 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:45,720 I reached out and said, 327 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,960 "Look, I understand the history that you guys have with law, 328 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:55,160 but if you really want music to be your way of getting out of that, 329 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:57,080 then let's connect." 330 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:00,440 [Lekks] Hau's the man. 331 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,080 Without him, to be honest, like, there would be no Onefour, you know? 332 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:07,800 He started waking us up, 333 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,720 and that's when we started telling ourselves, 334 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,040 "Shit, we could actually make something out of this." 335 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:16,880 I direct, uh, a label which is a joint venture with Sony. 336 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,160 Um… I'm someone that pushes and empowers people of my community, 337 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:22,880 whether that community is Pacific Islander, 338 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,640 whether that community is hip-hop. 339 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,680 And one of the main things I asked them was, 340 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,600 "Outside of the legal troubles, 341 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,360 what is holding you back from success?" 342 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,800 J Emz, he said, "Oh, we don't have a professional place to record." 343 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,720 "Okay, so if I can get you a studio, would you come?" 344 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,920 And J Emz said, "Name the place, time, day, we'll be there." 345 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,800 We thought, "Shit, we're about to be stars." [laughs] 346 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,560 [suspenseful music playing] 347 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,160 [J Emz] This is the first time going into a proper studio. 348 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,240 Going into that studio and being part of Sony 349 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,000 was, like probably the best time ever, like, doing music 350 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:11,120 because it was, like, the first time I was introduced to the music industry. 351 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,800 Seeing all those, you know, big names and those big faces on… on… on the wall 352 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,840 made me feel like this is where I wanna be for the rest of my life 353 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,200 and what I wanna do. 354 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,760 [Hau] I said, "You come here, we're working." 355 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,960 "What you do outside the studio, is up to you. I can't control that." 356 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,240 "No drinking, no drugs, no drama." 357 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,040 "You come in here, record music, write, and that's it." 358 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,840 That whole thing was hard, bro. Hard. 359 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,720 [Spenny] So every Saturday, we're in there. 360 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,360 Just get work done and get out. 361 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,440 And Hau was always on our back, telling us, "Make sure you're writing," 362 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,680 and that's when we started making our best music. 363 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,800 One of the first sessions, I was like, 364 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,000 "All right, boys, what's the first song we're gonna do?" 365 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,760 I'm sure it was YP who said, "Oh yeah, got a song called 'Shanks and Shivs.'" 366 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,080 "Oh shit! What's this song about?" "Well, it's about a couple of knives." 367 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,280 [rapping] 368 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,040 Nah, yeah, I remember our first studio session with Hauie. 369 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,320 I wasn't, like, trying to put on a facade or nothin'. 370 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,400 I just wanted to go in there and rap my shit. 371 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,680 [Kev] Hip-hop has always been a vehicle for minorities and the oppressed. 372 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,880 Drill music in particular, it's not so much about being technical. 373 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,960 It's just about telling the story as authentically and as raw as you can, 374 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,960 and I think that's why drill's so effective. 375 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,480 You know, what you see is what you get, and there's no bullshit around it. 376 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,360 It's nuts, but that's just part of the music, you know? 377 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,280 That's part of why it's so dangerous because it's real. 378 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,440 [rapping] 379 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,720 [J Emz] When everything started to grow, 380 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,920 the music started to grow, we started to realize, "Shit, like, 381 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,720 we need someone that knows this business side of things." 382 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,720 And I knew that Ricky was the man to… to continue on. 383 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,120 I knew it would be difficult. I never knew how difficult. 384 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,680 [laughing] 385 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,600 [J Emz] Rick used to come sit in sessions with us all the time. 386 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,720 He used to just do his own thing and mind his own business in the corner, 387 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,240 but he always had advice. 388 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,520 I really admired the loyalty that they had to each other, 389 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,960 the way that they took care of each other, 390 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,880 and I was like, "I wanna be a part of that." 391 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,480 I remember speaking to the guys, saying, 392 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,760 "This could actually be a thing for you, like." 393 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:29,000 "You're doing something that hasn't been done before." 394 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,480 And they were kinda oblivious to it. They were like, "No, like, 395 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,160 this is different. This is a different kinda situation." 396 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,680 At the time, I was, yeah, working with Laroi. 397 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,400 I thought that he would be the type of kid who'd wanna show them things, 398 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,120 just be curious to connect with them. 399 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,040 [J Emz] Laroi wasn't as big as he is now. 400 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:51,040 He was, um, just another normal kid from Redfern. 401 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:58,040 I had seen, like, a video of them rapping on… on Facebook or something like that. 402 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,400 Right away, instantly knew they have something special about them. 403 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,760 [J Emz] We learned a lot from sitting in studio sessions with him. 404 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,040 He'd get in there, do his thing, and we used to be shocked. 405 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:10,280 Like, "Holy shit! This kid's a genius." 406 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,080 [Laroi] It was all kinda new to them, I think, 407 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,040 and the coolest part was seeing the growth 408 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,560 and the constant growth of their process. 409 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,280 And then, by the end of, like, spending a couple months with them, 410 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,400 I'm like, "Oh, these cunts are next level." 411 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,280 If you weren't convinced by "Shanks and Shivs," 412 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,800 you were convinced with "The Message." 413 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,000 So we knew, like, to be able to impact the music scene, 414 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,440 we'd have to do something no one's done before. 415 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,000 That was the first track that we just closed all filters, 416 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,600 and we just went ahead, you know? 417 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,000 We thought, "This is gonna get attention from police, public eye." 418 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,200 Well, I just said, "Yeah, let's get that out right now." 419 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,040 And we just said, "Fuck it. Just drop it." You know? 420 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:54,800 "The Message" came out, and that's the one that really blew up. 421 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,320 [Misa] "Oh, Mum, guess what? It's up to 500!" 422 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,000 "Yay. 500 people listened to your song." 423 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,280 "Hey, Mum! 500,000!" 424 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:07,360 "Oh my God! Who in the world's listening to your rubbish?" Like… 425 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,280 [inspirational music playing] 426 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,400 That was our first song to hit a million views. 427 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:15,440 It was fucking game over. 428 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,560 Like, doin' millions of views in three days, 429 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,120 that was largely unheard of. 430 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,800 It was so organic, so grassroots, so independent. 431 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,680 A word-of-mouth and social-media, just, explosion. 432 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,800 [Laroi] They were just like, "Oh my God." 433 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,160 "People really like what we're doing. A million views is bananas." 434 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,320 I'd never seen this happen before in Australia. 435 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,720 I think what… what surprised me the most was the international reaction. 436 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,920 The reactors are the ones that really blew it up for Onefour. 437 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,160 [J Emz] First time we found out what reactions were. 438 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,640 We didn't know people were doing that to music videos. 439 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,760 [reading out disclaimer] 440 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,920 They must be doing some bad things with that disclaimer. 441 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,840 First off, there's been a lot of buzz around this song, 442 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,640 so I wanna see what it's about. Let's go. 443 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,720 [Celly rapping] 444 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,760 Bro, he just named, like, 50,000 people that need to be free. 445 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,120 The song opened with a fuckin' call from jail. 446 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,120 [laughing] Like, what the fuck? 447 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,920 [J Emz rapping] 448 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,560 -Are you seeing where they outside? -Bro! 449 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,320 They outside the courthouse, like. 450 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,880 -Say what? -Look. 451 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,600 Mount Druitt Courthouse, and they're doing this outside the courthouse. 452 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:52,640 Proper, fam. 453 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,200 [Mahmood] I think it's the most provocative thing 454 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,040 in recent contemporary Australian art. 455 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,120 Such a "fuck you" to everything that had shaped these guys. 456 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,240 [J Emz rapping] 457 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,240 He said, "Hey, I'mma pull mine. I'mma let you pull yours." 458 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,640 "We gon' show who gon' die first." 459 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,040 Keep me away from these niggas, bro. 460 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,520 This is so funny. 461 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,680 ♪ You boys just bitch and hide Come out and ride… ♪ 462 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,640 Like, accent-wise, the accent's actually good. 463 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,360 It started as a novelty, but then when I realized, 464 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,280 "Oh wow, these guys actually can rap." 465 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,720 [J Emz rapping] 466 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,600 [Mahmood] The world hadn't yet seen people of color 467 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,040 rapping in an Australian accent. 468 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,880 They didn't even know a lot of us existed. 469 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,960 They both got one ponytail. 470 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,000 Bro, I think that's a… um, from the Rocksides, fam. 471 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,880 Oh, them man there. 472 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,440 You know what I'm talkin' about? What's it called? Samoan. 473 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,400 The perceptions of what they thought Australians were 474 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,480 were Neighbours, Home and Away. 475 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,240 [Kev] Lara Bingle. Steve Irwin. 476 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,520 Tall, blond surfer guys. 477 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,880 And Onefour don't look like any of those cunts. 478 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,400 They definitely changed the perception of what Australia looks like, 479 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,240 sounds like, and what happens here. 480 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,080 [rapping] 481 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,440 ♪ Ooh, now that I'm down for the kill… ♪ 482 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,040 -Yo, brother. -Nah, go on, like… 483 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,680 Need to take it easy otherwise I'm gonna lose it. 484 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:41,400 Bro, this video is lit as fuck. These man turn up for the video. 485 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,480 The top artists in the UK started, like, giving us our props. 486 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,240 Probably the first was Skepta. 487 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,240 Shout out Onefour. All the Gs. 488 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,640 [Spenny] Dave, he posted us on his story. 489 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,920 These were artists at the top of their game, 490 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,720 and they're posting about Onefour. 491 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,920 Getting all that love from overseas was crazy. 492 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,880 [rapping] 493 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,600 ♪ We took numerous trips round there But, lad, that's suttin' I can't discuss ♪ 494 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:04,600 ♪ No way… ♪ 495 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,160 [Kev] I think YP's line was so iconic 496 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,440 because it was just a succinct summation of what the group was about. 497 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,400 "Onefour. We're from here. You're from there. We don't like you." 498 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,160 ♪ Them big lads, they're made for this ♪ 499 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,480 [rapping] 500 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,720 Ohhh! 501 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,880 ♪ Trust me, mothers Dem boys ain't ready ♪ 502 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,320 [rapping] 503 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,200 Oh my days. 504 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,280 That is actually… No. No. No. 505 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:40,960 [clicks tongue] Fuck off, man. 506 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,040 Fuck off, man. 507 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:46,760 Oh yeah, that's fucking cold. 508 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,320 There's certain lines in that world that they were part of 509 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,720 that you really don't cross. 510 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,440 Especially when someone's died, you know, you don't really 511 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,200 provoke them in that way. 512 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,360 It's pretty, some would say, disrespectful, 513 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,840 but they said it, recorded it, and spit it on a verse. 514 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,840 So that line refers to the stabbing death 515 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,440 of a member of an opposing gang called 21 District. 516 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,160 One of the members gets stabbed, is killed, 517 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,200 and that leaves them with 20 members. 518 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:17,280 With that line, 519 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,600 everything was about to change for Onefour. 520 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,600 I'm both disgusted by it… 521 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,160 But if art is meant to make you feel something, 522 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,360 you succeeded in the point of art right there. 523 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,880 But I also thought, like, people are gonna hate this line. 524 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,480 It's gonna be so controversial. 525 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:36,880 It was shocking, it was confronting, but it was exciting, man. 526 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,560 Fifty guys in balaclavas talking about sharp objects. 527 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,400 You know, they had a buzz about 'em. 528 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,160 [Hau] They followed "The Message" with "Spot the Difference" 529 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,080 and just leveled up some more. 530 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,200 When you saw that, 531 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,320 you knew it was a new dawn of hip-hop in Australia. 532 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,800 [yelling] 533 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,000 I was like, "This is a fucking fly story. We should cover these guys." 534 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,920 [indistinct chatter, laughter] 535 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,720 [Mahmood] And it was a wild shoot. 536 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,920 They were on the phone, calling people, calling people. 537 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,800 They're, like, these guys come. These guys come. 538 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,200 Oh, that was the best day. One of the best days of my life, bro. 539 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,640 It was goin' off its head, you know? Had the whole area out, man. 540 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,520 [Mahmood] We were in this car park, and more flares keep getting popped, 541 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,760 and cars are doing burnouts, 542 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,800 and suddenly, they're like, "Let's lock the fucking road down!" 543 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,440 The cops couldn't do nothing because you had, like, three, four hundred kids 544 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,240 storming the streets of Mount Druitt, literally reclaiming the streets, 545 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:32,160 taking over. 546 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,000 -[car horns honking] -[indistinct yelling] 547 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,040 [Mahmood] It was unlike any shoot I've been on 548 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:40,360 because there were people that felt like they were being heard and seen 549 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,360 for the first time. 550 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,760 We're seeing the bright lights, and we're seeing kids, 551 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,000 and they're, like, following us around at the shops, 552 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,720 trying to take photos and that. 553 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,240 [indistinct singing, laughter] 554 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,800 It just felt like genuine hometown love. 555 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,840 [Mahmood] Can't imagine what it would feel like to be a kid in Mount Druitt, 556 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,240 to see your area splashed on the screen like that 557 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,440 and the whole world suddenly pay attention. 558 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,800 That gives me goosebumps, thinking about that. 559 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,120 Suddenly, you know, be like, "I've got these dreams, 560 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,240 and now I can realize them because the guys across the road did." 561 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,560 ♪ Like spot the difference ♪ 562 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,680 [rapping] 563 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,720 ♪ My crew's still… ♪ 564 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,840 [host 1] 2019 was and still is undoubtedly ruled by my next guests in the studio. 565 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,920 [host 2] Onefour, the fucking hottest shit on the scene right now. 566 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,280 [host 3] A YouTube phenomenon. 567 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,880 [host 4] They've forged their way into Australian music history 568 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,680 with their unapologetic writing, their raw energy, 569 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,600 and the pride they have in their area. 570 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,840 [J Emz] We started meeting with a lot of magazines. 571 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,240 Rolling Stones and all that, GQ. 572 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,120 [man] How would you describe yourself now? What is your, like, identity? 573 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,120 Are you rappers? Are you musicians? 574 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,840 [J Emz] We're fuckin' musicians. 575 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,960 Shut the fuck up. We're good at what we do too, you know? 576 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,680 ♪ Force a shiv on these opps… ♪ 577 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,800 Every cunt in Australia wanted to make drill music after that. 578 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,680 [rapping] 579 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,560 Like, everybody. 580 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:05,760 ♪ And on that night… ♪ 581 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,600 He's got a little Australian fucking dance going there. 582 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,960 [Kev] The Mounty Bop, you guys have helped popularize. 583 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,720 -It's going big on TikTok and all that. -[snickering] 584 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,800 ♪ Like, who's that opp on the block? ♪ 585 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,480 [Osman] It's unprecedented in the history of Australian music 586 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,040 to have that kind of impact. 587 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,840 Oh, I felt like a superstar. 588 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,600 Yeah, it felt good because it just changed our mindset 589 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,360 and the way we looked at life. 590 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,640 [Ricky] And then after that, Dave toured Australia. 591 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:36,040 He asked for Onefour to support him on the Sydney and Melbourne legs. 592 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,200 It was about to come together for them. 593 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,200 [Morri] I'm not brave enough to be a cop, tough enough to be a gangster, 594 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,280 or smart enough to be a lawyer, so I became a crime reporter. 595 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,320 It's one thing to have an anthem, 596 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,920 but it depends what that anthem's saying or how it's being interpreted. 597 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,080 You know, a bunch of young guys 598 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,160 who are talking about how tough they are, 599 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:16,320 about carrying knives, about hating another crew. 600 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,360 You know, anthems can be positive and… and negative. 601 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,480 Obviously, Onefour get a bit of notoriety. They're getting popular. 602 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,080 The real controversy around Onefour started when a couple of other drill acts 603 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,600 started popping up in West Sydney as well. 604 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,920 The media latched onto feuds between these rappers. 605 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,440 We have a media in Australia particularly on the conservative side. 606 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,120 Tabloids like the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph 607 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,440 have whipped up a fervor of gang crime in Western Sydney. 608 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,680 These newspapers sell when they talk about gang crime. 609 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,000 They love to splash this stuff on the front page. 610 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,720 They love to create a sense of panic and hysteria. 611 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,280 If you believe these papers, 612 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,600 you'd think that Sydney was like Gotham City. 613 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,120 Right? You'd think there was a violent crime epidemic 614 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,320 and Western Sydney crime is out of control, 615 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,320 and it's all being perpetuated by young Islander men. 616 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,760 When you actually look at the numbers, it's not the case. 617 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,000 It's the safest Sydney's been in so long. 618 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,040 [man] My first recollection of coming across Onefour was, 619 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,560 um, a newspaper article, 620 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,200 and I thought, "This is kind of really interesting." 621 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:29,120 "What the hell have these guys done to… to get this kind of media attention?" 622 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,240 On an international scale, 623 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,960 you wouldn't say that Australia has a… a serious crime problem. 624 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,280 In Australia, the crime problems are around domestic and family violence 625 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:40,480 and sexual assault. 626 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,240 And yet often, the media attention are on these different forms of crime, 627 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,800 whether it be organized crime or gang crime, if you wanna call it that, 628 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,800 that seem, on the face of it, more exciting and much more newsworthy. 629 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,920 Do I think Sydney's getting more violent? I think there are aspects. 630 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,560 Young Sydney's getting more violent. 631 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,680 That's coming not from Bureau of Stats or Census. 632 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,840 That's coming from 40 years of reporting crime in Sydney. 633 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,200 All these tabloid newspapers, they were suggesting that, 634 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,960 if these music groups come to more popularity and prominence, 635 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,800 there's gonna be more violence on the streets. 636 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,000 Something is sick in New South Wales, particularly Sydney. 637 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,480 This is very, very scary. 638 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:25,440 The worst urban conflict in a generation is being fueled by drill rap. 639 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,480 [man 1] Yeah, it incites. There's no doubt about it. 640 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,920 [Morri] I don't know how comfortable I'd feel 641 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,080 about having a 14- or 15-year-old of mine going to one of these concerts 642 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,000 'cause I'm scared there'll be conflict. 643 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,640 [Spenny] We make music. You know? We don't incite violence. 644 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,200 We don't make people go out there and do things that we're saying. 645 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,040 The media was never on our side. 646 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,240 Yeah, they hated, like, what we were representing, 647 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:55,000 and anytime, like, something happens on the street, they would just blame us. 648 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,400 There's nothing unique about art that talks about violence, 649 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,640 but for some reason, when it comes to hip-hop from Western Sydney, 650 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,280 we're having that debate all over again, 651 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,560 and I think it's because of who's telling that story. 652 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:08,800 [rapping] 653 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,040 I think that the controversial aspect of Onefour 654 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,120 definitely became a double-edged sword with them. 655 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,240 What attracted people to the group initially 656 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,360 was then turned against them by the larger media corporations 657 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,560 and, of course, the police. 658 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:41,680 [Weinstein] I grew up in Southwest Sydney as a young person, 659 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,840 and in my time growing up, you know, I saw the impact of crime. 660 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,400 You know, I had family who were victims of crime, 661 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,440 so I have a real drive to make the place a safer place for everyone. 662 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,040 [unsettling music playing] 663 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:56,640 My name is Deb Wallace. 664 00:34:56,720 --> 00:35:00,800 My first station, 40 years ago, was a place called Blacktown, 665 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,680 and the substation was Mount Druitt. 666 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,880 I think I saw the harm 667 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,560 that drug and gang crime does to a community, 668 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,360 and it was an area that particularly interested me. 669 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,800 It was probably the middle of July 2019 670 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,920 when we started to see the violence escalate with these street gangs. 671 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,080 We saw them take on banners, and they changed them regularly, 672 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,200 which shows me they weren't real structured or very sophisticated. 673 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,760 They probably had more banners than I've had baked dinners. 674 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,280 I think when we first started to see them emerge, 675 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,960 uh, their names were Greater West and District 21, 676 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,320 and then we started to see Onefour. 677 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,920 And, um, we started to hear about some lyrics 678 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,800 that Onefour were using. 679 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,840 Where we're trying to combat and divert kids from violence, 680 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,080 this group was using lyrics that, to us, 681 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,440 had the possibility of inciting the acts of violence 682 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,600 that the street gangs were committing. 683 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,120 [Weinstein] It's pretty entrenched in drill rapping 684 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,000 that unless you have actually done that crime 685 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,920 or you are in that gang, 686 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 um, you cannot sing about that actual activity. 687 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,320 And we know that some of them were involved 688 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,320 in serious, serious assaults. 689 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,680 And if you read the lyrics of "The Message," 690 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,920 they are really essentially two groups, 691 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,560 you know, open platform 692 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,880 to talk about what will happen if those two groups come to each other. 693 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,440 So the idea was to get onto it quickly before it escalated. 694 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,440 The New South Wales police force has a long history of different units 695 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:29,680 aimed at targeting gang crime. 696 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,360 Basically, those groups have been merged into a force called Strike Force Raptor. 697 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,200 That's a intense tactical elite unit of New South Wales police, 698 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,600 whose job it is to disrupt organized gang activity 699 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,280 across New South Wales 700 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,040 that focuses particularly on terrorism suspects 701 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,000 or organized motorcycle gangs. 702 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,880 It was around this time that Strike Force Raptor 703 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,960 began their crusade against Onefour. 704 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,920 A special strike force has been set up by New South Wales police 705 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,240 to address the youth crime epidemic in Sydney's West. 706 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,400 They say that children as young as 13 are joining these so-called gangs 707 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,840 that are modeling themselves on violent US rap culture. 708 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,440 The fact that these powers started being used 709 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,440 against rappers and people in the hip-hop community, 710 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,760 it's unprecedented in Australian history. 711 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,560 When they got fixed on us, we didn't know what was happening. 712 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,480 We didn't know why they were doing that. 713 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,280 We were just getting raided and rushed by the police everywhere we were going. 714 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,280 [Osman] So they employ high-impact policing. 715 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,080 A lot of raids. You get pulled over a lot. 716 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,760 There's heavy surveillance, things like that, 717 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,800 to really get in your face. 718 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:35,720 [yelling] 719 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,360 We have a suite of legislation in New South Wales 720 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,280 that, particularly for overseas countries, 721 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,960 would really not probably allow 722 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,680 or understand their police forces having such powers. 723 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,960 My parents were getting searched everywhere they go. 724 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,680 Like, they'll drive down the road, and they'll get stopped. 725 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,680 [J Emz] When you go through shit, it's not just you that goes through it. 726 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,120 You go through it with family. 727 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,240 When my house gets raided, who's in the house? My family. 728 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,760 Everything's turned upside down. 729 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,680 Even the rubbish bins, pot plants, everything. 730 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,280 My daughter was 14. 731 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,760 She was walking towards the front of the house when they came in, 732 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,520 and they had rifles at her, and she was crying. 733 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:22,360 And all she's saying is like, "Don't shoot my dog! Don't shoot my dog!" 734 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:24,960 Yeah. 735 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,000 We have to experience that. We have to live with that. 736 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,160 I don't expect them to understand something they didn't grow up in. 737 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:38,120 They're the ones kicking the doors down. They're not the ones living in the house 738 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,920 that the doors are getting kicked down in. 739 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:43,880 [Mahmood] Of course it's not a fair fight. 740 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,440 You've got one side who has 15 million dollars in funding 741 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,440 and a staff of over 100 police officers 742 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:56,000 against a few rappers who are trying to make artwork. 743 00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,160 Yeah, so I had been a fan of Onefour's music for a while. 744 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,000 I thought what they were doing was incredible 745 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,680 and it reminded me of what we saw in the United States 746 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,720 in the early '90s and late '80s with N.W.A. 747 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,080 I did an audio documentary for the ABC, Australia's national public broadcaster, 748 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,440 called License to Drill. 749 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,920 I sat down with Sergeant Trueman, the head of the team targeting Onefour, 750 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,920 and what he told me was pretty shocking. 751 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,840 I'm gonna use everything in my power to make your life miserable 752 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:26,520 until you stop doing what you're doing. 753 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,920 Every aspect of your life, I'm gonna make it uncomfortable for you. 754 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,440 [Weinstein] The ability of Raptor, 755 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,440 which local police don't have, 756 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,520 is that we have the time, the resources, 757 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,240 and the tenacity that where we have a problem, 758 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,040 we will make sure that we are lawfully harassing that group 759 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,480 and enforcing all measures that we can 760 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,120 until that group either dissolves 761 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,000 or they desist from their criminal behavior. 762 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,960 And we don't apologize for that. 763 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,240 The way that the police are being used to target Onefour 764 00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,680 is something that has never been seen in Australia, 765 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,200 and the police know what they're doing is going to break them. 766 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,120 [Esky] So I got this text from another colleague of mine. 767 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:13,000 They said, "Oh, Raptor Squad, the police, is running a presentation on Onefour 768 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,000 and its effects on young people." 769 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,080 I went, "Okay, I definitely need to check this one out." 770 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:20,640 [Weinstein] From a Raptor perspective, 771 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:24,000 community engagement always sits at the heart of what policing is, right? 772 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,240 Because the reality for policing is we can't police 773 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,000 without the community, you know, wanting us to police. 774 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,720 The really fundamental principles of policing. 775 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,400 [Esky] So you walk in, and then they would pull up the presentation slide, 776 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,400 and they say, "Okay, everyone, this is Onefour." 777 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,360 So there was elders, you know, church ministers, youth leaders, 778 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,400 community leaders, young people. 779 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:48,600 We were all sitting there, 780 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,480 and they were lined up in the back of the wall. 781 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,040 Yeah, they were in their… their Raptor suits, 782 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,840 their, you know, thick vests. 783 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,560 Yeah, showing us images of young people 784 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:03,560 and saying that, you know, these people are potentially responsible for violence 785 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,480 and putting up lyrics. 786 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,480 [Misa] I guess they were trying to educate parents 787 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:13,160 about signs of youth being involved with gangs and stuff. 788 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,000 I felt like they were blaming a lot of things on my children, 789 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,480 and they were saying it was because of the music. 790 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,280 It was just getting us in a room, as Pacific people, together 791 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,320 to tell us to stop being bad. 792 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,800 If you're constantly being profiled by police 793 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,320 and you feel insecure and unsafe in your own community, 794 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:36,800 you're gonna get angry. 795 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,880 It was like the camp of the group was split in two. 796 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,960 There was a group of them saying, 797 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,800 "Yes, Onefour are promoting gang violence," 798 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,080 and then there was the other half going, 799 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,000 "They are, but that is not the full picture." 800 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,640 There was a lot of shock. There were tears. 801 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:01,480 I recall some people, halfway through the presentation, 802 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:02,960 just getting up and leaving, 803 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,440 and saying, "These are our family members." 804 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,920 It was oriented to be intimidating, 805 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,080 to scrutinize our communities 806 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,520 who feel already out of place. 807 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,760 It's so stupid, 808 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,760 in my opinion, spending money on stupid shit like that 809 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,560 when they could be, like, helping the kids and shit on the streets. 810 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,720 [Misa] It's a shame 'cause there's so much resources behind you. 811 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,880 You can do so much to be able to touch people 812 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,760 and… and build that bridge between youth and police. 813 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:41,200 Then one of my officers came to me said, "Boss, they're starting to do concerts." 814 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,160 "In fact, they've got one," and I think it was a theater in Sydney. 815 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,880 And they said, "We're concerned that if this concert goes ahead, 816 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,360 it's really gonna be a clash of, you know, the Onefours will turn up, 817 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:53,720 but also 21 District, 818 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,160 and if they do, they're not gonna sit there and share Jaffas together." 819 00:42:57,240 --> 00:42:59,240 Well, we knew that the police 820 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,440 were gonna try to do whatever they could to disrupt. 821 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,480 But we… we had no idea, like, to what lengths they would go to. 822 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,880 'Cause they were so full of great ideas, these… these police. 823 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,280 And they said, "We're gonna go and talk to the promoters 824 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,040 and just tell them about the concerns we have." 825 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:21,000 I provide all the information to the venues, and I say to 'em, 826 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,160 "You can't provide the safety that needs to be provided 827 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:25,600 for this event to go ahead, and the cost of the tickets 828 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,080 are never gonna cover the amount of police they need 829 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,200 to try and safely run an event like this." 830 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,280 I will do that for every event in New South Wales 831 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,520 until the violence stops. 832 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,960 [J Emz] It's ridiculous. 833 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,960 Yeah, it just got to the point where the promoters just had enough. 834 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,040 [Spenny] This is the first time ever that one of our shows got shut down. 835 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:51,120 If you find an opportunity to break out of these hoods 836 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,960 and make something of yourself, 837 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,160 and then the police tell you you're never gonna perform live 838 00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:00,600 in the city that raised you to your biggest fans, 839 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,000 it's really demoralizing. 840 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,600 We got banned from playing in Sydney, 841 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,360 but it didn't mean we couldn't play in another state. 842 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,360 We booked a show in Brisbane. 2,000 people. 843 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,320 [Spenny] We announced the show, 844 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,520 and within probably ten minutes to 15 minutes, it was sold out. 845 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:18,760 [hip-hop music playing] 846 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,280 [Spenny] This was big for us 'cause it was our first headline show. 847 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,480 I feel like it's a bit of a spotlight, you know? I'm proud. 848 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,000 [Spenny] Nah, yeah. 849 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,040 [Ricky] We worked really tightly with the event promoters, 850 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,000 who are also Pacific Islander. 851 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,800 We made sure that there were community elders the kids would recognize 852 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,360 in the room before they entered, 853 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,120 and we worked very closely with the local community 854 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,240 to make sure that there was no trouble. 855 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,400 Everyone in Australia in the music industry 856 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:48,600 is watching this show. 857 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,000 Number one thing basically is no sign of any violence. 858 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,400 [Spenny] The adrenaline's hitting now, and we're keen, you know? 859 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:56,880 We're ready to get on stage. 860 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,680 [indistinct chattering] 861 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:00,600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 862 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:01,600 Please. 863 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,240 [man] Dear heavenly father, thank you for bringing us all together. 864 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,520 -[all] Amen. -Let's go, boys. 865 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,600 [Hau] Brisbane show was their moment 866 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:11,920 to shine. 867 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,720 -[crowd cheering] -["Ben 10" by Onefour playing] 868 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,520 ♪ But I can't stop this war So therefore this clip must be empty ♪ 869 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,520 ♪ I grip it like it's friendly Tell them Grim Reaper sent me ♪ 870 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,520 ♪ One, two, one, two Then back in the whip ♪ 871 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,000 ♪ Watch 'em freeze like Demzy… ♪ 872 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,920 [YP] That's when I realized the amount of fans we had. 873 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,360 It was crazy to see. Just like, fuck yeah! 874 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,400 We're actually gonna be able to leave this life behind. 875 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,520 [fans screaming] 876 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,400 [indistinct talking to crowd] 877 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,400 [J Emz] Made me realize being on that stage is what I wanna do. 878 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,520 Having shown that we could hold, uh, an event safely, 879 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,880 we thought, like, "There should be no problems now." 880 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,560 [ethereal music playing] 881 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:55,640 ♪ Uh-uh ♪ 882 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:02,840 We drop "In the Beginning," and everyone goes crazy. 883 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,680 -♪ Right, ready? ♪ -♪ They, they, they ♪ 884 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,080 [rapping] 885 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,720 Everyone's really positive, like super, super excited, 886 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,560 and we decide that, you know, 887 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,960 now's the perfect time to do a national tour. 888 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,240 [J Emz] Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, over to NZ, back to Sydney. 889 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:29,160 Couple of hours after announcing, we're already on the verge of selling out. 890 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,880 [Ricky] We're doing the rehearsals and preparing for this national tour. 891 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:34,560 -♪ It was only me and the gang ♪ -♪ Gang ♪ 892 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,880 ♪ Introduced this country to drillin' All of a sudden… ♪ 893 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,160 [Ricky] And the guys are going through their set, super excited. 894 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:44,480 Everyone's, like, nailing their verses, and the set's coming together. 895 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,000 ♪ Trap, drill, ching, and shoot… ♪ 896 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,280 [Celly] Fucking love now, baby! Fucking sick! 897 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,440 -We love you! Oh! -[laughter] 898 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:55,600 Thanks for real, buddy, yeah? Thank you! This is the best day ever! 899 00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,680 [Ricky] And I get a message from our booking agent 900 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,200 saying that Raptor have approached venues 901 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,120 in Melbourne and Adelaide, 902 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,440 and it looks like one of the venues is about to pull out 903 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,320 because of pressure from the police. 904 00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,560 [Lee] The police are sending intimidating letters to the venues to say, 905 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,000 "If you have this group play, we're gonna have a little closer look 906 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,040 at some of those breaches of your liquor-licensing laws 907 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,480 that might've occurred over the last couple of years, 908 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,600 and perhaps you won't have that license into the future." 909 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,840 Anyone looking at the letter 910 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,760 would probably interpret it as something being very close to blackmail. 911 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,520 We didn't say they couldn't perform. 912 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,200 We just had an obligation 913 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,600 to tell the venues of the potential risk. 914 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,000 [Weinstein] I wanna really set the record straight, 915 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:46,920 that it wasn't the police that stopped it. 916 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,520 The venue itself determined that they weren't prepared 917 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,840 to allow that, um, concert to go ahead. 918 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,440 When I read that email, I was like, "Oh man, how do I tell these boys this?" 919 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,440 "It's just gonna destroy their morale." 920 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,840 And I'm sitting them down after rehearsals and saying, 921 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,880 "Look, I've got a bit of news." 922 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,200 "The police are pressuring Melbourne, and we're gonna lose Melbourne." 923 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:10,160 And they said, "As long as we don't lose Sydney, 924 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,760 as long as we get to do home, like, it's okay." 925 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,480 And the next day, we rehearsed again, 926 00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:22,840 and I got the second piece of news that we were gonna lose Adelaide and Sydney. 927 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,720 Yeah, it happened day by day. Like, we lost each venue a day at a time. 928 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,720 Oh, no venue wanted to do anything with us because of the police pressure. 929 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,480 Yeah, it was heartbreaking for us. 930 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,320 [Ricky] They wanted to fight back, but how do you fight? 931 00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,440 How do you fight back against something that big? 932 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,400 Touring for an artist is… is a big deal. 933 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:46,120 It's… it's… it's their opportunity to not only connect with their fans 934 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,400 but it's an opportunity to make some really good money. 935 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,320 It's interesting because, um, I think we should give these guys a go. 936 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,560 They've got a chance to go, um, international here, 937 00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,400 and it's a known fact that you make your money from concerts. 938 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,160 Just stifling like that, you're commercially cutting them dry, 939 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:07,600 like, they'll… they'll have nothing, which I think's massively disappointing 940 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:12,280 for a group of guys from Mount Druitt who've done so well to come this far. 941 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,960 The only one that we felt like we're definitely gonna be able to do, 942 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,000 and the police can't really do much to interfere, was New Zealand. 943 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,480 I was like, "At least we get to do New Zealand." 944 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,640 But unfortunately, YP, Lekks, and Celly are due to be sentenced 945 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:29,080 for that incident at the pub a few years earlier. 946 00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:34,320 So the only two members who could travel to New Zealand was J Emz and Spenny. 947 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,000 We were excited to get out of the country 948 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,640 because of all the dramas that was going on back home. 949 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,560 [tense, suspenseful music playing] 950 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,400 [Ricky] We disembarked, and we went through customs, 951 00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,280 and I knew something was wrong 952 00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:57,280 because I saw quite a number of police. 953 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:01,920 We got to immigration, 954 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,840 and as we went through to clear passports, 955 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,880 Spenny tried to go through first, 956 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,120 and the gate wouldn't open. 957 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,360 Just a big red X. 958 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,920 Who had their passports taken? Can youse three come with me? 959 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,800 The rest of you guys, if you want, you can wait… 960 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,280 They said that Raptor from Australia has contacted them, 961 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,480 saying that we're coming into the country. 962 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,440 As the commander of Strike Force Raptor and the Gang Squad, 963 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,400 it's quite normal that any information about potential risks 964 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,720 to another community or another area is passed on. 965 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,960 It's the only way we can combat organized crime. 966 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,600 We don't tell anyone else how to do their job or what to do. 967 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:54,160 We just simply pass on the information about what we found and what we did. 968 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:56,320 [tense, suspenseful music playing] 969 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,080 [Ricky] They tell us that J Emz won't be let into the country 970 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,040 because of his prior criminal record. 971 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,080 I explained to them. I said, "This is what we're here for." 972 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,440 "J Emz doesn't pose any particular risk to the country." 973 00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,760 "He's not gonna offend while he's here. He's here to work." 974 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,920 But they said, "We're not letting him into the country, 975 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:22,520 and that was pretty much it. 976 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:23,880 Yeah, I was gutted. 977 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,360 You know, traveling that whole way and not being able to do it, 978 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,160 but, yeah, I guess I shoulda seen it coming, 979 00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:30,480 you know what I mean? 980 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,320 While I was in that holding cell, that's when I got the news 981 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,680 that, um, Lekks, my little brother, and Celly got locked up. 982 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:37,840 P got four years. 983 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:39,880 Lekks got four years, 984 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,800 and Celly got… I think he got ten. 985 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,400 It gets to a certain stage where you just become numb to emotion. 986 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,000 In the moment, like when, um… when she was calling out the verdict, 987 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,040 I knew my family, and that was hard. 988 00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,400 But I still had that mind frame, like, "Yeah, fuck it. This is the life." 989 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:01,160 [Misa] I told my husband, 990 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:03,680 "No matter what happens today, I'm not crying." 991 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,040 "I'm not gonna put that on him." 992 00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,160 But I remember just coming home and just going over the Harbour Bridge 993 00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:12,320 and just wiping my tears. 994 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,160 When I got the news, yeah, I was pretty broken. 995 00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:18,720 I thought, like, "How are we gonna be able to hold up the crew while they're gone?" 996 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,760 We didn't think they were gonna get that long. 997 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,840 [YP] Everything was going so well, 998 00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,560 and then, like, for it to just be, like, put on pause, 999 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:30,840 yeah, it was the worst timing. 1000 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:34,240 …statement. 1001 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:35,840 The show's getting canned, eh? 1002 00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,760 Do you reckon I'd be able to do it by myself? 1003 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:38,840 [Ricky] No way. 1004 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:40,440 You'd suck. 1005 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:42,320 That's not happening. 1006 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,680 -[Ricky] You have to do it by yourself. -Huh? 1007 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,600 [J Emz] Oh, I felt for Spenny at the time 1008 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,160 because there's a lot of weight on your shoulders now. 1009 00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:53,320 We didn't know whether we were gonna go through with the show or not. 1010 00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,560 Fuck it. I'm doing the show still. 1011 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,040 Just to let our people know. 1012 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,720 Run the ball up 'cause we're insane. 1013 00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:05,000 [laughter] 1014 00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:07,120 -The show must fucking go on. -[laughter] 1015 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,200 [Ricky] They can't stop… They can't stop us! 1016 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,080 The show must fucking go on! 1017 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:16,240 I wasn't nervous. I was more angry. I wanted to prove a point. 1018 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,920 I was over all the bullshit from them, like, just them trying to stop us. 1019 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,920 I wanted to look back at it and be like, 1020 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,120 "They didn't end up breaking us that night." 1021 00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:26,880 [man 1 on radio] Hope you're ready for tonight. 1022 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:28,120 -[man 2] Ah, tonight! -Whoo! 1023 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,320 There is a massive show going down 1024 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,560 from a global group who just took the world by storm. 1025 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:36,880 [Ricky] And I could see Spenny just thinking. 1026 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,000 Like, he was committed to the idea, 1027 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,360 but he just didn't know how it was gonna work. 1028 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,760 [Spenny] Unless you go through the shit that we've gone through, 1029 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,200 then come talk to me, bro, you know what I mean? 1030 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,840 We don't just make fucking music like this because we want to. 1031 00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,080 It's because that's what we've been through. 1032 00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,240 And that's why people love it, 1033 00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,800 because a lot of people have been through the same thing, the same situation. 1034 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,160 That's why people are actually gonna show up. 1035 00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:11,920 They know it's real, know what I mean? The government doesn't want us to perform. 1036 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,640 They don't want us to be better, but 1037 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,680 it's not up to them, you know? 1038 00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:19,800 'Cause the people speak for themselves. 1039 00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,440 [suspenseful music playing] 1040 00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,920 [Spenny] I was more nervous five minutes before the show. 1041 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,360 My legs weren't working, 1042 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,160 but I just ran with it. 1043 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,280 [Ricky] It's a lot of weight to carry on your shoulders, you know? 1044 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,840 But he knew that he had Onefour's reputation to uphold. 1045 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,840 He knew that the fans were waiting, like, had been waiting for a long time. 1046 00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,440 [crowd chanting] Free YP! Free YP! 1047 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,960 [Spenny] All right. [speaks indistinctly] 1048 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,920 They gave Celly ten years and YP four. 1049 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,000 [crowd booing] 1050 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:54,360 But, listen, YP wrote this shit just before he got locked up. 1051 00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,720 Listen to the fucking lyrics. This shit's a struggle for us. 1052 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,880 ♪ They call us ball runners With the utmost respect ♪ 1053 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,440 ♪ Well known in the system There's not much of us left ♪ 1054 00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:06,040 One of my proudest moments. 1055 00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,800 That show tells you a lot about the character of the group, 1056 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,160 what they're willing to do for each other, 1057 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,240 and how committed they are to what they're doing. 1058 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,000 ["Welcome to Prison" by Onefour playing] 1059 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:47,560 [Spenny] Came home to the same shit. 1060 00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,600 Raptor was there, waiting for us at the airport. 1061 00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:54,840 [Ricky] They separated us and started to ask us a bunch of questions 1062 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:55,960 about what we did, 1063 00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,560 whether we knew that what we were doing was illegal or wrong. 1064 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,360 So they asked us to sign non-association papers 1065 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,720 to say that we wouldn't affiliate with the members of the group, the rappers. 1066 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,360 One of the strongest, uh, tools we had in our toolbox 1067 00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,960 was the legislation of consorting. 1068 00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:19,040 And it's about telling people that if you associate with that person 1069 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,600 who has been convicted of a serious offense, 1070 00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,800 then you may be committing a crime yourself. 1071 00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:27,000 And you warn them. 1072 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,960 We just feel that was just intimidation. 1073 00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,120 It was meant to just make us fearful about working with the group. 1074 00:56:33,720 --> 00:56:36,440 [Spenny] They were saying to me I can't affiliate with J Emz. 1075 00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,280 I was getting nervous 'cause I was, like, "Is this true or not?" 1076 00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,440 If we can't affiliate with each other, how are we meant to do music? 1077 00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:46,880 [Hau] Could this be the end of Onefour? 1078 00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:50,640 You know, Lekks was already in. Celly was in. YP's about to go in. 1079 00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:53,560 Could Spenny and J Emz carry that torch? 1080 00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,320 [J Emz] It's just me, Spenny left, and there's a lot that we have to uphold 1081 00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:59,640 now that they're gone. 1082 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,600 [Spenny] I think this was, like, the lowest time for us. 1083 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,960 I wanted to give up, and I just didn't wanna do it anymore. 1084 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,800 Like, I felt like the stress was just too much. 1085 00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,840 Yeah, there were moments when I definitely felt like 1086 00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:18,720 all of us had the idea that, like, this is getting too hard. 1087 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,320 How much more of this can we take before we have to say, like, 1088 00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,200 "Oh man, it's just not working"? 1089 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,160 [Spenny] Um… Yeah, we were just thinking, 1090 00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,880 like, "How the fuck we gonna get out of this one?" You know? 1091 00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,720 Thing is, these boys have changed their lives 1092 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:37,000 and for the better, 1093 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,680 and I've seen it personally. 1094 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,120 It really does feel like they don't wanna see 'em win. 1095 00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:46,120 I think you've gotta give people a chance. You've gotta give people room to grow. 1096 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:47,800 You can't shut them down. 1097 00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:51,720 Yeah, I had thoughts of, you know, just going back and doing what we knew, 1098 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,800 doing the same old shit or running around the streets. 1099 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:56,720 [laughter, indistinct chattering] 1100 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,520 Where's Spenny? Call Spenny and… 1101 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,280 I'm always trying to be there for the team. 1102 00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,240 I'm always trying to be there, but at the end of the day, I'm a criminal. 1103 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:13,120 -You know me. -[Spenny] I know… It's done. 1104 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,680 -You wanted this bad. -[J Emz] End of the day, I'm a crim. 1105 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:16,920 [Spenny] That's not the point. 1106 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,600 [Ricky] I knew that the guys just needed to get away from things for a while. 1107 00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,640 There was sadness for losing Lekks, Celly, and YP, 1108 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,720 and I just figured it could be a good time to capture that feeling, 1109 00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:32,440 and that feeling would be the backbone or inspiration behind some new music. 1110 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:38,600 [J Emz] So we went somewhere in the country, 1111 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,120 and we just started making music, 1112 00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,440 and the sole purpose to go out there was to make music with B Wise. 1113 00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,200 [Ricky] We were thinking at that time, like, 1114 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,520 "How do we show people that there's more to the group 1115 00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,640 than what they might see?" 1116 00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,440 You… You have to find that balance, you get what I'm saying? 1117 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,400 Don't completely abandon something that's clearly working. 1118 00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,880 Just what you're doing is you're just… you're showing progression. 1119 00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:03,240 We're just able to think out there, be able to work differently. 1120 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:09,640 We just knew we had to base it around what was going on at the time. 1121 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,840 Then we ended up coming up with a song called "Home and Away." 1122 00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,440 ♪ At war with the cops like Brax But this ain't home and away ♪ 1123 00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:19,440 ♪ Didn't grow up Round all those beaches… ♪ 1124 00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:23,440 [J Emz] We dedicated that song to the boys in jail and the area where we came from. 1125 00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,200 [rapping] 1126 00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,000 [rapping] 1127 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,360 ♪ Pull up, bang, spray Do dat, do dat, gang, gang ♪ 1128 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:39,520 ♪ Gang, gang ♪ 1129 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,320 [Hau] "Home and Away" was 1130 00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,600 those boys trying to find something to fulfill that void. 1131 00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,720 [Osman] Onefour grew up watching Home and Away 1132 00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,440 and not seeing themselves represented. 1133 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,760 They want the next generation of kids coming up 1134 00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:58,040 not to be focused on what's happening at the bay 1135 00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:01,280 but to realize the lives they live are as valid of being represented 1136 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,040 and of telling stories about. 1137 01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,960 [J Emz] When you see Home and Away, you just see palm trees, beaches, sand. 1138 01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,720 We feel that's the perspective people have on Australia, 1139 01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,640 so we just thought we'd show 'em a different side of Australia 1140 01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,320 and the life that we're living and what it's like 1141 01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,000 on our side of Australia. 1142 01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,440 ♪ Yeah, I grew up in Mounty That's home of the brave ♪ 1143 01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,280 ♪ Out here We at war with the cops like Brax ♪ 1144 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,640 ♪ But this ain't home and away I didn't grow up round… ♪ 1145 01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:31,680 So, for the next year, we got into a rhythm of working, and yeah. 1146 01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:33,920 [Ricky] The EP Against All Odds, 1147 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,520 they purely recorded what they were feeling at the time. 1148 01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:41,560 [Kev] I imagine that would've been a difficult time for J Emz and Spenny, 1149 01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:42,680 just the two of 'em, 1150 01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:46,400 especially going through so many obstacles and so many hurdles. 1151 01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:49,280 We've got a lot on the line right now. 1152 01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:50,440 It's… It's different. 1153 01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,480 Like, I got people that rely on me. 1154 01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,800 [operator] This call is originating from the correctional center. 1155 01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:06,320 You boys are on the radio now, and I know that the boys are massive. 1156 01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,080 You can do this for us as well. 1157 01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:13,200 [man] What do you think? 1158 01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,240 [playing tentatively] 1159 01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,560 [Spenny] I'm learning how to play the song 'cause I'm gonna prove everyone wrong. 1160 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:26,120 [giggles] 1161 01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,040 That's what I'm good at doing, proving people wrong. 1162 01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,080 [man on radio] It's all about Onefour and their new EP. 1163 01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:45,440 From Mount Druitt to the globe. 1164 01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,720 What do you want everyone to take away from this project? 1165 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:50,880 Just read the title Against All Odds. 1166 01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,720 You can have your back against the wall all you want, 1167 01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,120 but it's how many times you get back up and keep fighting. 1168 01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:58,160 True. 1169 01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,080 We found out that some big international artists 1170 01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:02,880 started reaching out to us, 1171 01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:06,960 and we realized, bro, it's time to work, you know? 1172 01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,400 No one's gonna do this for us, so we've gotta do it for ourselves. 1173 01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,360 We had Ferg hit us up. 1174 01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:16,160 AJ, 1175 01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:17,320 Headie. 1176 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,840 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1177 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,560 ♪ Hey, hey… ♪ 1178 01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:25,880 [J Emz] We also did a song called "My City," 1179 01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:27,720 uh, which featured The Kid Laroi. 1180 01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,200 ♪ I'm like the Jay Or the Drake of my city ♪ 1181 01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,080 ♪ Fuck what they say They won't say that shit to me ♪ 1182 01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,640 ♪ I'm in downtown All my brothers is with me ♪ 1183 01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,600 ♪ Shout out my boys from the 70 Shout out my boys from the 60 ♪ 1184 01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:38,760 ♪ They know what's in me Shout out my boys from the 17 ♪ 1185 01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:40,200 ♪ They really know how I was livin' ♪ 1186 01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,960 -♪ Oh, what a feeling ♪ -[rapping] 1187 01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:57,720 ♪ Get the fuck out my face ♪ 1188 01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,080 [Mahmood] I couldn't believe it. 1189 01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:02,880 Like, I've just never seen anyone from Australian hip-hop 1190 01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:07,240 even get recognized by an overseas act that I admired. 1191 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:11,840 These are guys that are at the top of what's happening in culture 1192 01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:13,040 at the moment 1193 01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:17,360 because hip-hop is, you know, the biggest genre in the world. 1194 01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,680 And yet, in Australia, we wanna deplatform it and censor it. 1195 01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:25,040 [Osman] If they're not allowed to perform, if they can't make a living by making art, 1196 01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,560 Onefour, I think, will be a pretty bleak cautionary tale 1197 01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:32,520 for what happens if you choose to tangle with the Australian police. 1198 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:37,000 If the police are successful in destroying a group, 1199 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,760 it's a dark day for Australia and freedom of expression. 1200 01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,400 Very disheartening. You know, you would question yourself. 1201 01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:47,600 Like, what's… what's the use of… of making music 1202 01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,840 if I can't even perform, you know, for the people? 1203 01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:52,600 ♪ In fact, that's the old me ♪ 1204 01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:54,840 ♪ Now you got me wishing That I could go back in time… ♪ 1205 01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,960 I heard on the grapevine that YP is getting out very soon, 1206 01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:02,000 and I think that's the injection of energy that Onefour really needs right now. 1207 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,560 I can't wait for him to get out. It's… 1208 01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:09,000 We've been doing it without, you know, him and Lekks and Cell as well, 1209 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:14,760 and, you know, finally, it's time for us to come back together and go forward. 1210 01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:16,240 The one with Illy on it? 1211 01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,480 We're on video call every weekend. It's always me and him. 1212 01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,320 Everyone will say hello, and then they'll go, "Here's Mum," 1213 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,600 and then I'm the phone call for the rest of the time. 1214 01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,920 I've realized what I wanna do. I wanna do music, like, all the way. 1215 01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:36,320 I don't really wanna do anything else when I get out. Just music. 1216 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,960 I can't wait. You know, that's my… that's my brother. 1217 01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:43,920 I've been waiting for this day ever since he went in. 1218 01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,600 Shit, I already got his bed ready for him and that. [chuckling] 1219 01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:49,680 He's been inside for two years, 1220 01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:53,720 and, like, I feel like he might be a bit lost. 1221 01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:59,680 [J Emz] When you're inside those walls, you can become trapped, and you feel shit, 1222 01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,520 like, "This is gonna be me now for the rest of your life." 1223 01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:06,880 He's a bit institutionalized from, you know, going in at a young age. 1224 01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:08,280 He went in at 18. 1225 01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,560 But better things will come when he leaves those gates. 1226 01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,440 [YP] I guess you can kinda see, like, where my head was at 1227 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,720 before I even walked out of them gates. 1228 01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:22,960 Still trapped. Still looking at everyone like I wanted to turn on everyone. 1229 01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:27,440 And when I walked out, and I seen my little sisters and my mum, 1230 01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:29,960 it was a bit unreal in a sense. 1231 01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:32,000 [Misa] Give me another cuddle. 1232 01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:35,040 I felt, like, some type of, um, anxiety and shit, 1233 01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:39,160 and I never knew what that was, but soon as I walked out, I noticed. 1234 01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,120 Bro, like, this is just weird, you know? 1235 01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,200 Also coming out and, like, not knowing what to do, 1236 01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:46,600 was… it was the big thing. 1237 01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:52,120 Like, all right, I'm gonna… I'm gonna fall back into my old habits, 1238 01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:54,720 and I'm gonna end up back in jail. 1239 01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:56,560 You all right? 1240 01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,080 And then, like, when I was outside, I realized 1241 01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,800 fucking opportunities are in my hands now, like. 1242 01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,160 You know, if I don't get there to the… 1243 01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,160 to my end goals, this and that, it's on me, so that's when I stepped up, 1244 01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,760 and I was, like, "Fuck this, let's go." You know, "Let's take it all away." 1245 01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:16,360 [rapping] 1246 01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,560 [YP] Studio sessions are coming up. Monday to Friday, weekend off. 1247 01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:37,200 My routine started kicking in again, and it was just like, 1248 01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,960 "You know what? You gotta do this now. This is your job. This is your work." 1249 01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,240 "If you really wanna keep on the straight and narrow, 1250 01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,160 this is what you gotta do." 1251 01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,680 [Spenny] This is the make it or break it. Yeah, I'm excited for it. 1252 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:53,040 I feel like with all the things that's happened around us and 1253 01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,920 all the setbacks that we've had to go through, like, 1254 01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,920 it's finally our turn to see our full potential 1255 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,800 and get to where we're meant to be. 1256 01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:04,800 [tense, suspenseful music playing] 1257 01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,760 But lo and behold, Raptor stepped back in. 1258 01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:12,680 [news theme playing] 1259 01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,360 [anchor 1] This week, New South Wales police upped the ante 1260 01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:19,360 with a warning to sites like YouTube, Instagram, and Spotify 1261 01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:24,320 that they would take action over material inciting violence or criminal activity. 1262 01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,040 From what I can gather, police are looking now, 1263 01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,160 and it's not just songs. 1264 01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:33,040 It's also posts, video content, 1265 01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:37,080 that they believe could create a threat to any part of the community. 1266 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,560 They're gonna approach the platforms and say, "We'd like you to look at that." 1267 01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,080 "We're thinking that it's dangerous." 1268 01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:44,720 [Weinstein] It wasn't so much about us going to a YouTube 1269 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,720 or a social media platform and saying, "Take this down." 1270 01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:52,560 Where we thought the messaging was, you know, inciting violence, 1271 01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:54,440 then we would say to the platforms, 1272 01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:56,560 "We're bringing this to your attention. You decide." 1273 01:07:56,640 --> 01:08:00,080 "Is that fit for purpose for your framework as a company?" 1274 01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,400 The police are trying to stop this music 1275 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,720 from being heard, from being performed, from being streamed, 1276 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:08,800 and they're trying to send a message to Onefour and anyone else like them. 1277 01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,400 "Don't bother. We'll ruin your lives if you do this." 1278 01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:13,160 But is the New South Wales police 1279 01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:16,840 really an adequate judge of what is acceptable and what's not? 1280 01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:21,040 I can't think of any other moment in Australian hip-hop 1281 01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,720 where musicians were censored, 1282 01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:27,440 and I've heard some of the most violent Australian hip-hop 1283 01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,480 that you can possibly imagine. 1284 01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:34,120 These guys could take to any stage in Melbourne or Sydney whenever they want. 1285 01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:37,640 I think as long as the New South Wales police 1286 01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,120 censor and deplatform artists of color, 1287 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:42,280 um, 1288 01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:43,680 we've got a long way to go 1289 01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:47,600 in terms of the type of culture we're willing to accept and represent. 1290 01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,920 They're not bashing us like they were before, 1291 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,480 but in my opinion, it's even worse, bro. 1292 01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:54,400 We've literally tried to go straight and narrow, 1293 01:08:54,480 --> 01:08:58,080 and… and they're taking our ability to work and fend for ourselves, 1294 01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:02,160 so they might think, you know, they can shut down one or two shows. 1295 01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:07,840 The way I see it is, all they're doing is building that fire bigger in me. 1296 01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,200 I'm never gonna stop now just 'cause of what they keep doing. 1297 01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:13,720 [rapping] 1298 01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,760 [Ricky] But clearly, Raptor aren't gonna let it go. 1299 01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,360 Lucky for us, an old friend has reached out. 1300 01:09:38,440 --> 01:09:39,320 He messaged me, 1301 01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,520 and he was telling me that it wouldn't be right 1302 01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,400 for anyone else to open up for him, 1303 01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:47,880 so he hit me up, and he asked me how it was looking. 1304 01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,760 In the two years that I've worked with Onefour, 1305 01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:54,840 Laroi has gone on to become Australia's biggest musical export. 1306 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,720 ♪ I do the same thing I told you that I never would ♪ 1307 01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,360 ♪ I told you I changed Even when I knew I never could… ♪ 1308 01:10:00,440 --> 01:10:01,760 A global superstar. 1309 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,240 ♪ Find nobody else as good as you I need you to stay… ♪ 1310 01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:05,840 [Ricky] Laroi had requested 1311 01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,080 that Onefour support him on his national tour. 1312 01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,840 Well, The Kid Laroi is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet 1313 01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:16,000 after absolutely exploding onto the scene only a couple of years ago. 1314 01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:20,440 Laroi is finally back in Australia for a huge arena tour of the country. 1315 01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:24,680 I was trying to have them open for the, uh, for the tour, 1316 01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,120 and, uh, they… they told me, 1317 01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:29,760 um, "There's no way in hell that that's happening." 1318 01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:32,040 We're going back and forth, and he was saying 1319 01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,200 they won't be able to do the tour if they announce us. 1320 01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:38,560 I said, "Oh. Okay, you know what? It's all good. Don't worry about it," 1321 01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:40,120 and, um, yeah, 1322 01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,120 so I'm just pretty much gonna just bring them in 1323 01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,040 and just not tell anyone, so… 1324 01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:47,160 That's why I'm sneaking 'em into the show on Thursday. 1325 01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:49,040 [Ricky] It's gonna be bonkers. 1326 01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:54,200 They've, you know… They've barely performed two live shows, 1327 01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:57,160 you know, so to go out on stage and get their roses 1328 01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:01,680 in front of 20,000 Sydneysiders, like, it's not a small thing. 1329 01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,320 ♪ Tell me Where did they all get their confidence? ♪ 1330 01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:07,440 ♪ I ain't gotta take this shit no more ♪ First class and I'm on that plane ♪ 1331 01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,600 ♪ Put Aus on the map And they all complain ♪ 1332 01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:11,960 ♪ Tellin' the truth And they still complain ♪ 1333 01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:13,360 [backing track continues] 1334 01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:15,280 [YP] The opportunity to go and perform 1335 01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:17,880 actually without fucking getting pressed by any venues, 1336 01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:19,480 and big shout out to Kid Laroi 1337 01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,480 'cause, you know, we never get to do shows anyway, 1338 01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,600 so fucking love, man, all love. 1339 01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,360 [J Emz] Word. They probably think your little apology… 1340 01:11:26,440 --> 01:11:28,440 One-fucking-four, baby! 1341 01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:32,160 [Spenny] See you… See you later. See youse tonight. 1342 01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:39,080 It's mad that we get to rehearse, knowing that, on the same night, 1343 01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:43,320 we're about to come out in front of 20,000 people. 1344 01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:46,800 It's gonna be our first time, like, performing with YP on stage 1345 01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,920 for, you know, around three years. 1346 01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:54,160 [YP] It's crazy, like, doing anything with Kid Laroi at that kinda level, 1347 01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:55,800 like, it's gonna be big. 1348 01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:12,360 -[forceful knocking on door] -[dog barking] 1349 01:12:12,440 --> 01:12:14,880 [officer 1] Police search warrant! Open the door! 1350 01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:18,000 -[dog barking] -[indistinct chatter over radio] 1351 01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,280 [J Emz] Yeah, just the police, they end up kicking our door in 1352 01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:24,720 and raid us the night of Laroi's first show. 1353 01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,720 It's putrid. You know, like, it's your home, you know, 1354 01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,960 and then you've got a bunch of strangers running in your house, guns out, 1355 01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:34,280 this and that, just flippin' it upside down. 1356 01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:37,760 You can just imagine what, like, my mum and my sisters would think. 1357 01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:39,080 It's just, like, 1358 01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:40,960 you know, it's wrong. 1359 01:12:45,400 --> 01:12:46,560 [Misa] The house was searched, 1360 01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:48,880 and they had two police on us the whole time 1361 01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,040 to make sure we didn't leave the room. 1362 01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:53,760 And from then on, we're, like, "Fuck's sake." 1363 01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:57,440 The boys aren't gonna come. We couldn't make Laroi's first show. 1364 01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:58,920 It can't be a coincidence. 1365 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:02,080 There's a motive behind this and a message the police are sending 1366 01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:05,120 that, um… that we're not in control, 1367 01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:06,560 that they are. 1368 01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:09,200 Yeah, 100% they knew that we were gonna come out. 1369 01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,880 We were getting ready to leave at six o'clock, 1370 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:15,400 and their house literally got raided at 5:30. 1371 01:13:15,480 --> 01:13:19,280 If the inference is that Raptor went there because they were doing a surprise visit, 1372 01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,640 I'm not sure how much of a surprise it must've been. 1373 01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:25,320 But, no, we would never, ever go and do a raid on someone's house 1374 01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:27,040 because they were gonna sing at a concert. 1375 01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,960 That's just, in my view, um, nonsense. 1376 01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:32,440 That's the thing about the cops trying to stop us. 1377 01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:33,520 If 1378 01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:39,720 they were able to stop us, we'll be worse than what we ever were. 1379 01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:44,080 You know, we're trying to make it out, and putting us back in the trenches, 1380 01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:46,680 we just create more drama for them. 1381 01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,760 So no matter what we've been through in the past 1382 01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,120 and what we've had to go through with Onefour, 1383 01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,200 I feel like it helps everyone around me, not just myself. 1384 01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,880 It helps my family. It means everything now. 1385 01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:00,840 [Ricky] Success to them now is, first of all, 1386 01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,200 being able to provide for their friends and family. 1387 01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:06,640 But that's their culture and where they come from, is like, 1388 01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,560 you don't succeed on your own. You gotta bring your village with you. 1389 01:14:11,480 --> 01:14:13,600 [Esky] I remember when they first came up, 1390 01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:15,480 J Emz would always say, 1391 01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:19,720 "When we get big, we're gonna come back and renovate your studio." 1392 01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:25,280 Lo and behold, just two years later, they came back and renovated the studio. 1393 01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:28,640 [J Emz] There is a lot of young music and young talent coming up. 1394 01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,440 I love it. I love hearing at all, you know. 1395 01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:34,000 [Kev] They opened the floodgates for so many other acts, 1396 01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,320 especially from Pacific Islander backgrounds, 1397 01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:39,360 to get into music and realize that this was a viable career. 1398 01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:43,440 Hell yeah. You know, I'm… I'm very proud of what we achieved. 1399 01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,200 We set out to shift the culture, and we did. 1400 01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:50,800 [Mahmood] I think, at the end of the day, it all boils out to, 1401 01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:53,520 you know, that young boy at home in Mount Druitt 1402 01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,880 suddenly sees these rappers who live across the road from him 1403 01:14:57,480 --> 01:14:59,280 make it to the world stage. 1404 01:15:00,480 --> 01:15:04,280 And suddenly, he gets that spark to dream in the same way. 1405 01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:06,240 [uplifting music playing] 1406 01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:10,680 One thing I want people to understand is how important it is 1407 01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,520 to find something you love and then run with it. 1408 01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:16,120 Whether it's music or whether it's anything else. 1409 01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:17,880 That's the one thing that helped us 1410 01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:20,400 get out of a lot of the bullshit we had to go through. 1411 01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,320 [Kev] Onefour's presence has just had such a massive impact 1412 01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:26,440 on the music industry as a whole in Australia, 1413 01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:29,040 but ironically, Onefour have been banned from playing shows, 1414 01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:32,280 so even though they're the reason why everyone's getting bigger fees, 1415 01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,760 they're not getting their slice of the pie. 1416 01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:36,200 Essentially a pie that they baked. 1417 01:15:37,160 --> 01:15:39,720 [Spenny] As much as we did take that big hit 1418 01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:43,840 losing tours, losing rappers, we're not gonna go out like that. 1419 01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:44,960 No way. 1420 01:15:45,480 --> 01:15:48,120 That's one of the main reasons why we all keep pushing together, 1421 01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,520 'cause we know the circle's bigger, the picture's bigger, 1422 01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:53,440 and, you know, there's a lot more to lose if you lose. 1423 01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:55,320 So we can't lose. 1424 01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:03,880 [Spenny] Luckily for us, Laroi put on another show the next day. 1425 01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:06,680 Ha ha. [chuckling] 1426 01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:08,720 [tense music playing] 1427 01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:12,960 [Ricky] Heading to the show on Friday, 1428 01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,600 you can feel that there's, like, an anxiety 1429 01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:17,840 or, like, a nervousness, 1430 01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:19,800 but also, like, a… 1431 01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:21,440 a suspense. 1432 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,440 We don't know that this is actually gonna happen or not. 1433 01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:30,560 We can't risk the police catching wind of any of this. 1434 01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:32,960 Stay out of sight, out of mind right now, 1435 01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:35,560 while we get the cops on that side of the building. 1436 01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,520 We just don't want, obviously, them trying to disturb us. 1437 01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:41,760 We gotta stay over here, stay out of sight, 1438 01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:43,680 in case they jeopardize anything with the show. 1439 01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,000 -[siren wailing] -[police radio chatter] 1440 01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:49,960 Do pray, Father, at this time 1441 01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,960 that the show will not be disrupted by any means whatsoever. 1442 01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:55,520 -Amen. -[all] Amen. 1443 01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:57,840 -[J Emz] Hey, Lekks. -Hey, bro. 1444 01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:01,840 [J Emz] Hey, bro. We're about to go up. I'll call you later. Love you, Lekks. 1445 01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,000 We deserve this. We deserve to be up there. 1446 01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:08,120 -[crowd cheering in distance] -[indistinct chatter over radio] 1447 01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:11,800 [crowd cheering raucously] 1448 01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:15,840 [inaudible] 1449 01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:24,120 [Laroi] Sydney, usually, usually, 1450 01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,680 we would roll right into the next song. 1451 01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:30,400 But tonight, I told you guys on my Instagram 1452 01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:32,640 that I have a very special special guest. 1453 01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:33,880 [excited screaming] 1454 01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:39,880 Before this very special guest comes out, I wanna say this. 1455 01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:44,800 These guys have been banned from performing in Australia. 1456 01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:46,240 [crowd cheering raucously] 1457 01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:50,400 And guess what? 1458 01:17:51,480 --> 01:17:52,840 I don't fuck with that. 1459 01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,560 [crowd cheering loudly] 1460 01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:59,000 So tonight, I'm gonna fucking get them what they deserve, 1461 01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:02,040 and they're gonna come out here and do a few songs for us tonight. 1462 01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:07,400 Let's fucking go, Sydney! Make some noise for your very own Onefour! 1463 01:18:07,480 --> 01:18:09,200 [raucous cheering] 1464 01:18:10,440 --> 01:18:13,520 [J Emz] You know what fucking time it is! Let's go, Sydney! 1465 01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:15,040 [crowd cheering wildly] 1466 01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:18,000 Whoo! 1467 01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:23,800 ♪ Gang, gang, gang, gang ♪ 1468 01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:28,720 ♪ I'm like the Jay or the Drake of my city Fuck what they say ♪ 1469 01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,800 ♪ They won't say that shit to me I'm in downtown ♪ 1470 01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:33,320 ♪ All my brothers is with me Shout out my boys from the 70 ♪ 1471 01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:35,640 ♪ Shout out my boys from the 60 They know what's in me ♪ 1472 01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:38,440 ♪ Shout out my boys from the 17 They really know how I was livin' ♪ 1473 01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:40,240 ♪ Oh, what a feeling I walk through the city ♪ 1474 01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:43,040 ♪ They treat me like God We were six deep in that five-seater car ♪ 1475 01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:45,560 ♪ I heard they got a problem with me Told 'em, "Come to my face" ♪ 1476 01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:48,520 ♪ But they fakin', they fraud Drive in the hood in Lamborghini cars ♪ 1477 01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,400 ♪ I might just give a hunnid to my dawgs Thank you for holding it down ♪ 1478 01:18:51,480 --> 01:18:53,720 ♪ And I'm sorry if you ever felt Like there was love lost ♪ 1479 01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,120 ♪ Now they blamin' Onefour For all of the drillings ♪ 1480 01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:57,640 ♪ They blamin' us For what happens in Sydney ♪ 1481 01:18:57,720 --> 01:18:59,280 ♪ They blamin' us For what happens in Melbourne ♪ 1482 01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,400 ♪ They blamin' us For what happens in Brissy ♪ 1483 01:19:01,480 --> 01:19:03,080 ♪ Tell me who's with me? 'Cause I ain't kidding ♪ 1484 01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,000 ♪ This shit's been happenin' Since back in the day ♪ 1485 01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:06,920 ♪ No one said nothing when sh got… ♪ 1486 01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:08,680 ♪ Now everybody's got suttin' to say ♪ 1487 01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:10,320 ♪ Get the fuck out my face ♪ 1488 01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:27,160 …now between the event coordinators, your manager, and police, 1489 01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:30,120 you were meant to perform your song promote it, whatever. 1490 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,040 That's not happening now. 1491 01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:34,280 So there's no song. There's no singing, dancing. 1492 01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:35,360 There's no promotion. 1493 01:19:35,440 --> 01:19:37,560 [J Emz] What's the problem with us doing the song? 1494 01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:40,240 -That's the whole problem. -[J Emz] What's wrong with the song? 1495 01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,520 It's nothing to do with the song. It's the fact that you guys are here. 1496 01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,160 [J Emz] But why are you stopping the song from playing? 1497 01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:49,200 -Am I gonna keep going in circles? -[J Emz] Just answer my question. 1498 01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:52,280 -I'm trying to explain to you-- -[J Emz] You're not answering straight. 1499 01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:55,400 No problems. Everyone, get on that wall. Put your hands against it. 1500 01:19:55,480 --> 01:19:58,120 -[J Emz] You're not answering. -[officer] No, you're not listening. 1501 01:19:58,200 --> 01:19:59,680 [J Emz] This is censoring. 1502 01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,640 ♪ Yeah, I grew up in Mounty That's home of the brave ♪ 1503 01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:07,160 ♪ Out here we at war with the cops Like Brax, but this ain't home and away ♪ 1504 01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:10,160 ♪ I didn't grow up round all those beaches But I still got bros at the bay ♪ 1505 01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,560 ♪ Pull up, bang, spray Do dat, do dat, gang, gang ♪ 1506 01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:17,240 ♪ Came straight out of Bidwill Deccan Way Right there that's home of the gang ♪ 1507 01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:20,520 ♪Took my first L at the back of the block But that's what made me a man ♪ 1508 01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:24,080 ♪ Everything that I do is illegal For my opps my intentions are evil ♪ 1509 01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,560 ♪ And I take the throne for my people King of the ring like William Regal ♪ 1510 01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:29,720 ♪ Every day that it's FTS, FTP ♪ 1511 01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:31,720 ♪ Til they Mounty Bopping back on these streets ♪ 1512 01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:35,080 ♪ Free up Lekks, free YP For the gang I stay doin' O.T ♪ 1513 01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:38,400 ♪ Free up Biggs, that's my bro Free up the whole of the GSO ♪ 1514 01:20:38,480 --> 01:20:40,080 ♪ We do not talk, we stick to the code ♪ 1515 01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:41,760 ♪ That's rule number one When we step on the road ♪ 1516 01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:44,320 ♪ Like sh, sh Talk to me, talk to me nice ♪ 1517 01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:48,000 ♪ On God if you fuck with a opp Sh will get got, I put that on my life ♪ 1518 01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:51,360 ♪ All the times that they switched up And how many times did I pay that price? ♪ 1519 01:20:51,440 --> 01:20:53,200 -♪ This is Mounty ♪ -♪ Home of the brave ♪ 1520 01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:55,440 ♪ I don't wanna have to Say that shit twice ♪ 1521 01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:58,320 ♪ Yeah I grew up in Mounty That's home of the brave ♪ 1522 01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:01,960 ♪ Out here we at war with the cops Like Brax, but this ain't home and away ♪ 1523 01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:03,840 ♪ I didn't grow up Round all those beaches ♪ 1524 01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,080 -♪ But I still got bros at the bay ♪ -♪ Ay, free 'em up ♪ 1525 01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,680 ♪ Pull up, bang, spray Do dat, do dat, gang, gang ♪ 1526 01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:12,040 ♪ Yeah, I grew up in Mounty That's home of the brave ♪ 1527 01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:15,480 ♪ Out here we at war with the cops Like Brax, but this ain't home and away ♪ 1528 01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:17,400 ♪ I didn't grow up Round all those beaches ♪ 1529 01:21:17,480 --> 01:21:19,680 -♪ But I still got bros at the bay ♪ -♪ Ay, free 'em up ♪ 1530 01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:22,160 ♪ Pull up, bang, spray Do dat, do dat, gang, gang ♪ 1531 01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,960 ♪ For me, growing up in Mounty That's home, you know? ♪ 1532 01:21:25,480 --> 01:21:28,280 ♪ All the bullshit aside All the violence and that ♪ 1533 01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,240 ♪ It's still home I won't let no one talk down on Mounty ♪