RAPPER Jordan McCann has inspired many with his story of how music changed his life.
The former criminal first found success with his career as a musician when he was still behind bars.
Jordan McCann is a British rapper from Little Hulton in Salford who found fame when he released a popular song while still in prison.
The track, Lifestyle, had been written and recorded by McCann while he out on probation from a sentence at HMP Manchester.
Since his last release from prison in 2021, McCann has turned his back on his life of crime and is now pursuing a career in music instead.
He has recorded a mixtape at the iconic Abbey Road studios in London and even embarked on a tour of the UK.
He has also branched into acting and features in Amazon Prime series Jungle alongside stars like Dizzie Rascal and Tinie Tempah.
Reports have estimated McCann’s net worth to be around £800,000 based on his potential annual earnings from his popular YouTube channel.
The rapper uses the video sharing platform to give his fans new music.
He has also been uploading parts of a documentary titled Let’s Do This to the site.
McCann began rapping in 2018 while he was locked up at HMP Nottingham.
His biggest hit is arguably the song Lifestyle, the song that first put him on the map as a rapper.
The song details his previous life of crime and features lyrics about him “coming out of jail doing shootings on licence”.
McCann now has a YouTube channel where he shares his music with over 97k followers.
The most beloved songs on his page are Danny Boy (featuring Maverick Sabre and Big Narstie), which boasts over 1m views, and Soul/ Traveller Man, which has been watched almost 2m times.
McCann’s most popular video on YouTube, however, is Tell the City (featuring B.Real) which was released in the summer of 2023.
The track has already racked up over 4m views since it was posted online.
McCann was just 13 years old when he went to prison for the first time on an attempted robbery charge.
He then spent many years in and out of cells and in 2015 he was sentenced to six and half years by Manchester Crown Court for planning to supply drugs.
McCann has detailed how this sentence, handed to him when he was just 19, made him realise he had to turn away from a life of crime.
He told the Manchester Evening News in January 2023: “I was just thinking, ‘I’m not coming home now for years, I’m living around all these same people, I lived by this f***ing code, I’ve been the [most loyal] guy, I’ve been the realest guy’ and it does get you nowhere.
“I just realised, ‘bang’ this life is the fakest life in the world’.”
He added: “After growing up in prison and seeing so many scenarios and people I’ve looked up to and seeing some of the moves that they pull themselves, I realised it’s inevitable in this life bad things are gonna come.
‘Nothing good’s gonna come, when money gets involved, when girls get involved people are gonna f*** people over’.’
Revealing his plans for the future, McCann continued: “I just realised that the streets is a serious trap and it’s a mind frame of ‘oh I want to be a gangster, I want to be someone’ but you make one mistake that’s gonna f*** you up for the rest of your life.
“Who cares about the streets, who cares about who did what to who? I need to have a house, I need credit, I need a car, I want to have a baby, I want to have a dog, I want to have a life.”
