A group of Sydney-based, Pacific Islander kids start recording drill raps to avoid a life of crime. Two years into their | dG1fTENhemZmNHZqX3M
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00:02 - I'm gonna use everything in my power
00:04 to make your life miserable
00:07 until you stop doing what you're doing.
00:09 - I've never seen this happen before in Australia.
00:11 - There has been ongoing conflict.
00:13 - They're a YouTube phenomenon.
00:15 - It was (beep) game over.
00:18 - This is the future of Australian hip hop, right here.
00:21 - Growing up, we've always had run-ins with police.
00:23 They just look at us as like criminals.
00:25 - Where we're trying to divert kids from violence,
00:28 this group was using lyrics of inciting the acts of violence.
00:32 - Ralliation is a broad.
00:33 - This video is lit as (beep)
00:35 - Guess growing up around it, we got sucked into it.
00:38 - Violence becomes the means for you to achieve a status.
00:42 - There's nothing unique about art
00:45 that talks about violence.
00:46 But for some reason, when it comes to hip hop,
00:48 we're having that debate all over again.
00:50 And I think it's because of who's telling that story.
00:52 - If you're constantly being profiled by police
00:56 and you feel insecure and unsafe in your own community,
01:00 you're gonna get angry.
01:02 - The real controversial aspect of One Four
01:04 definitely became a double-edged sword.
01:06 - It's like this yin and yang.
01:07 You have the street and then you have the music.
01:11 - We started to see the violence escalate
01:13 with the street gangs.
01:15 - Lex, my little brother, and Selly got locked up.
01:18 Pete got four years.
01:20 Lex got four years and Selly got 10.
01:24 - I thought, like, how are we gonna be able
01:26 to hold up the crew while they're gone?
01:28 - They were just starting to turn their lives around.
01:32 And then they're back in trouble with the police again.
01:35 - One thing I want people to understand
01:37 is how important it is to find suddenly love
01:40 and then run with it.
01:42 That's the one thing that helped us
01:43 get out of a lot of the bull (beep)
01:45 we had to go through.
01:46 - We knew that the police were gonna try to do
01:50 whatever they could to disrupt.
01:52 We had no idea, like, to what lengths they would go to.
01:55 - The way that the police are being used
02:03 to target one thought is something
02:05 that has never been seen in Australia.
02:07 - Where we have a problem,
02:09 we are lawfully harassing that group
02:12 and we don't apologise for that.
02:14 - But is the New South Wales police
02:15 an adequate judge of what is acceptable and what's not?
02:18 - Hip hop is the biggest genre in the world
02:21 and yet we want to de-platform it and censor it.
02:23 - If the police are successful in destroying a group,
02:27 it's a dark day for Australia and freedom of expression.
02:31 - You know, there's a lot more to lose if you lose.
02:33 So we can't lose.
02:35 - If that's your thing,
02:40 it's gonna keep you out of trouble,
02:42 keep you busy so you're not on the streets,
02:43 I'm good with that.
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