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Police ban rapper over ‘ganja’ claim
7:03pm Thursday 9th October 2008
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.
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Cakeface, Shipley says...
7:47am Fri 10 Oct 08
Juice Terry, Oakworth says...
10:33am Fri 10 Oct 08
Weedlees Manz, Bradford says...
11:44am Fri 10 Oct 08
but it wont get Ya far.
Drop D Weed If Ya Wanna Succeed!!!
crispy, bradford says...
12:07pm Fri 10 Oct 08
DonHutchinsAfro, bradford says...
12:11pm Fri 10 Oct 08
Rambo, bradford says...
12:19pm Fri 10 Oct 08
"deal-none". no, really, thats what it says.
wibsey08, bradford says...
12:59pm Fri 10 Oct 08
Unc, Wyke says...
1:38pm Fri 10 Oct 08
Rambo, bradford says...
1:43pm Fri 10 Oct 08
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.
mrs walker, Round here says...
11:37am Sat 11 Oct 08
:-)
albion, west riding says...
2:45pm Sat 11 Oct 08
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Rambo, bradford says...
11:07pm Thu 9 Oct 08
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.