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Police ban rapper over ‘ganja’ claim

7:03pm Thursday 9th October 2008 in


A Bradford rapper on the brink of the big time has been banned from going behind bars to promote his new single – after police read his MySpace page.

Dorzi, seen by millions of Channel 4 viewers talking on a knife crime documentary earlier this year about how he gave up gang life for music, wanted to use the cells at Trafalgar House police station for a publicity photo-shoot.

And to return the favour he had been talking to police community workers about touring schools in the district with a special track warning youngsters to stay away from crime.

But yesterday – the day of filming – Bradford officers discovered “smoking ganja non-stop” topped his list of interests on his MySpace page.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said the MySpace entry had been updated since they last looked and the drug reference was new.

The decision surprised Dorzi, who grew up on Ravenscliffe and now lives in Laisterdyke.

The 21-year-old, whose real name is Dorian Smith, said: “I was just messing around. It’s just tongue-in-cheek. I don’t have time to smoke ganja now non-stop, I’m too busy with my music and working in a care home. The interests bit is old, it needs updating.

“That’s the kind of life I came from. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to get into that. Music is my top interest now.”

He says he turned his life around with the help of music studio Waxworks in Manningham Lane – a not-for-profit organisation which helps socially-excluded youngsters re-engage with society through music.

He admitted that after leaving college, he hung around with friends who had nothing else to do and carried weapons.

But Dorzi said he had left all that behind now and had teamed up with Bingley DJ James Sammon, who had a number six hit in the 1990s and has been signed to the Ministry of Sound record label. The DJ is pushing him to the top, taking his sounds to the label.

Dorzi’s track Jealous Girl has already had 90,000 hits since it went up a few weeks ago on MySpace and Youtube.

Comments(12)

Rambo says...
11:07pm Thu 9 Oct 08

While the police should probably be doing something better than looking at peoples Myspace pages, you cant help but think this guy is partly to blame for writing that rubbish.

Like so many wannabe gangster boys who say they do this and do that, but are always home by 10 and still scared of their dads.

"thats the kind of life I came from". Oh great, another one from "da streets" or whatever.

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Cakeface says...
7:47am Fri 10 Oct 08

dat is like....well shamefull blud!

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Juice Terry says...
10:33am Fri 10 Oct 08

innit!

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Weedlees Manz says...
11:44am Fri 10 Oct 08

Bare Manz go biggin up The WEED.
but it wont get Ya far.

Drop D Weed If Ya Wanna Succeed!!!

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crispy says...
12:07pm Fri 10 Oct 08

and the public gets what the public wants,think i'm going underground!

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DonHutchinsAfro says...
12:11pm Fri 10 Oct 08

Obviously smoking or taking drugs is not the best way to advertise yourself to the police, but it never really did the Beatles any harm with publicity and sales. And lets face it, some of the best music written in the last 40 or so years have had a little herbal help, if not more. Even go back as far as the great poets and they were always off their faces on one thing or another. Artistic development comes from expanding the mind, a mind that has been held closed by the way our society is treating youth and the public in general. It doesn't have to be expanded with mind altering substances, new experiences work also, but who gets to experience anything worthwhile these days, its either work, dole, or die. We have no choices we are forced into submission by overbearing beaurucrats and Big Brother rules.

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Rambo says...
12:19pm Fri 10 Oct 08

I dunno. Most people I've known or met who smoke weed are dossers or people stuck in a vicious circle of having a boring life and use it to escape, despite it actually being responsible for the lifestyle.

"deal-none". no, really, thats what it says.

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wibsey08 says...
12:59pm Fri 10 Oct 08

So what if he smoked weed at the end of the day all that matters is what he's doing right now ..what's better him getting into music and trying to change or carrying on the way he was.you slate him for saying that's teh way he was brought up but as soon as we here anything about kids on estates making too much nise or dossing on streets whats the first thing people say '' i blame the parents'' and a guy who works with me who is so well brought up good qualifications and who has a good job as an i.t executive .....likes to smoke weed on an evening and hes not a dosser....and i do not come from a rough,poor dosser family and my dad used to have a little smoke on a weekend it's time we got steriotypes out of out heads.i say good luck to dorzi it doesn't matter whetehr he's another 'gangster wanabe and all the rest '' he's changing and untill people start giving chances bradford isn't going to change.People moan about drug abuse and violence but then moan when these drug users want to change they can't win. Was eminem a wanabe he says 'blud and bro and sup........and i love his music.rap cam from teh streets so expect rappers to have that 'hood'feeling to them ,,,you don't like rap music...don't buy it no ones forcing you too.

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Unc says...
1:38pm Fri 10 Oct 08

He looks like he's had a stroke :)

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Rambo says...
1:43pm Fri 10 Oct 08

Ok... From the looks of you typing, you've probably been smoking the waccy baccy as well. But answer me this, why, in this style of music, good guys or bad, do you NEVER see anyone smiling?

I find this hood nonsense funny. People who refer to it are probably brought up in decent households and go to a good school.

While places like Bradford are a dump to come from, its a million miles away from the REALLY dangerous places in the world. And they talk about coming from a "hood" like it's a slum in Rio or somewhere in Iraq.

Drug and alchohol abuse seem to hand in hand with a large number of the lazy wasters you see around, and weed smoking is a popular choice among the younger ones. If people want to change, that's fine. But for every one that does, there's a hundred that don't.

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mrs walker says...
11:37am Sat 11 Oct 08

Cos smilin' ain't STREET, dude. Smilin' is fo babies. Innit. An' when ya smile, da whole world smiles wid ya. An' dat would be SOOOOO uncool.

:-)

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albion says...
2:45pm Sat 11 Oct 08

Dumpling rap?

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