A convicted killer has launched a rap EP and made a ‘censored’ gesture from behind bars after his music was flagged to the authorities.
Kammar Henry-Richards, who goes by the title Kay-O, says he’s ‘getting richer’ whereas serving a life sentence for homicide at HMP Belmarsh.
Henry-Richards, 26, was imprisoned for at least 37 years after a trial which concluded on the Previous Bailey on January 14.
He was amongst 4 males jailed for the gangland homicide of Kacey Boothe, who was shot seven instances at virtually point-blank vary in north-east London on August 13, 2022.
The 25-year-old was focused by a gang concerned in a tit-for-tat feud with a rival group as he left a kids’s celebration at a neighborhood centre in Walthamstow. Detectives consider he was not the meant goal.
One among Henry-Richards’ tracks was deleted from YouTube earlier this month after it got here to the eye of the authorities however an EP entitled ‘10 Minute Name’ — referring to the time prisoners are allowed on the telephone — has since been uploaded to a brand new account entitled Free Kay-O.
The music has additionally been launched throughout streaming channels, doubtlessly incomes Henry-Richards, from Leyton, east London, cash in royalties.
Movies present handwritten lyrics flowing on prison-issue notepaper, apparently written on the Class A jail in south-east London.
On ‘C’est La Vie’, Henry-Richards raps: ‘I sleep at evening understanding I’m getting richer for me and mine. It’s free the blokes till all of us unlocked.
‘Bagged most the gang now you don’t hear any gunshot.’
The rapper additionally says: ‘I’m urgent packs and every other contraband I’m tryna get via them gates.’
In one other observe, entitled ‘Heavy Wait’, he says: ‘Choose knocked me out for the depend, babe this can be a heavy wait.
‘She heard the size of my sentence and he or she couldn’t even get her sentence straight.’
Henry-Richards additionally displays on his crime in one other music video the place the names of his brother and sister and the sufferer are blurred out.
Within the observe ‘From Kammar’, he says: ‘You’d suppose that one among us that’s locked up is the one which shot him.
‘However that ain’t the case, I might by no means say a reputation.’
Cell phones are banned in prisons and it’s also forbidden to make unauthorised sound recordings.
Nevertheless on the finish of the observe Kay-O says that ‘idiots are occurring about man recording off illicit cellphones’ when the lyrics are being relayed by way of 10-minute calls.
C’est La Vie garnered 125,000 performs when it was launched on Spotify earlier this month, which might earn round £400 on royalties.
It’s one among three tracks at the moment accessible on the service, copyrighted to TSM Leisure.
C’est La Vie was beforehand faraway from YouTube earlier than the brand new account was arrange with the message: ‘WE CAN’T LET THEM SILENCE HIM.’
In keeping with the Solar, Henry-Richards has been banned for all times from working an account on the platform.
The brand new profile with the doctored police mug shot was arrange this week and was reviewed by the Squeeze Reactions YouTube channel, which has greater than 22,000 subscribers.
It isn’t clear if Henry-Richards can declare royalties from his music, as such points are sometimes lined by particular preparations with the Jail Service.
A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) spokesperson stated beforehand: ‘We’re investigating this recording and have requested its elimination.
‘There may be at the moment no proof to recommend it was uploaded from jail, however any prisoner discovered breaking the principles might be punished.’
Henry-Richards is one among quite a lot of promising British rappers to finish up behind bars in recent times.
Final July Remtrex, actual title Demehl Thomas, was jailed for six-and-a-half years for his involvement within the provide of medicine.
Thomas, 34, from Birmingham, was discovered responsible following a trial on the metropolis’s crown court docket.
The grime artist’s conviction was hailed as a ‘vital’ end in a wider investigation into a medicine line by West Midlands Police.
Metro has approached the MoJ for additional remark.
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