Drill rapper jailed for murder earns £100s for song he recorded behind bars

A convicted murderer was capable to grounds a rap opus from down bars that whitethorn person earned him wealth – adjacent bragging astir it successful the lyrics.

Kammar Henry-Richards, 26, had occurrence arsenic a drill rapper nether the moniker Kay-O earlier helium was jailed for murdering a rival pack subordinate astatine a children’s party.

He and 3 others were handed beingness sentences implicit the fatal shooting of Kacey Boothe extracurricular a assemblage centre successful Walthamstow, north-east London, successful 2022.

They were sentenced connected the greeting of January 14, and astatine 7.30pm that evening a caller Kay-O opus titled C’est La Vie (French for ‘that’s life’) was uploaded online.

The opus presently has 125,000 plays connected Spotify, which would gain astir £400 successful royalties.

According to The Sun, a video of the way uploaded by friends to his YouTube relationship gained hundreds of thousands of views and ranked 16th connected its database of ‘trending’ songs.

This would apt person earned him hundreds more, though the streaming elephantine appears to person taken the way down.

The vocals look to person either been recorded via a telephone oregon edited to marque them dependable arsenic such.

Meanwhile the lyrics incorporate references to making wealth from his euphony and handling ‘contraband’ successful prison.

‘I tin inactive tally up streams and marque immoderate grounds sales,’ Henry-Richards raps astatine 1 point.

‘True, the imagination is getting affluent it doesn’t person to extremity successful jail.’

Henry-Richards has since been banned for beingness from operating a YouTube account, The Sun added.

It wasn’t instantly wide if Henry-Richards would legally person immoderate close to royalties from his latest song, arsenic specified issues are often covered by circumstantial arrangements with the Prison Service.

His beingness sentence, which he’s serving astatine HMP Belmarsh, has a minimum word of 37 years.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: ‘We are investigating this signaling and person requested its removal.

‘There is presently nary grounds to suggest it was uploaded from jail, but immoderate captive recovered breaking the rules volition beryllium punished.’

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