Straight outta jail... prisoners release cell rap video
TWO prisoners filmed themselves making a rap video which they then managed to post online from behind bars.
Demehl Thomas and Moysha Shepherd recorded it earlier this month to promote an album, which friends are thought to have arranged to be released on iTunes.
Thomas, 25, who uses the stage name Remtrex, is serving time for aggravated burglary while Shepherd, also 25, was sentenced to four years and nine months for his role as getaway driver in the armed ambush of a prison van three years ago.
Both are serving their sentences at Birmingham Prison
At one point during the expletive-laden song, Thomas boasts of making ‘giant stacks’ of drugs and stabbing rivals in the neck. He also describes women as ‘hoes’.
Shepherd raps under the name Big Stygs, inspired by mystery racing driver The Stig on BBC show Top Gear.
Another phone appears to be charging in the background of the video, which is for the album’s title track, Goonlyfe.
The footage had last night been viewed more than 10,000 times. It is believed Thomas completed the album after being released on licence earlier this year. He was returned to prison in June after breaching the terms of his release.
An insider said the inmates, who are not thought to share a cell, were ‘sticking two fingers up to the prison regime’, adding: ‘It’s a disgrace that crooks like these have access to mobile phones in prison and don’t give a damn who finds out.’
Thomas is due to be released in June 201 . Shepherd was sentenced in December 2013 for his role in springing gangster John Anslow from a prison van in Worcestershire the previous year.
HMP Birmingham director Pete Small said an internal investigation had been launched over the video.