West London rap group 1011 today find themselves subject to an unprecedented court order that now restricts them from creating music without obtaining allowance from police.
With the group’s various visuals and freestyles on several platforms amounting to well over 10 million, defending their often violent lyrics as “online oneupmanship” — Micah Bedeau, 19, Yonas Girma, 21, Isaac Marshall, 18, Jordean Bedeau, 17, and Rhys Herbert, 17, were each imprisoned or detained for their role in a planned revenge attack on another gang last week. The judge also rejected claims that weapons found were in fact “props” for a music video. Read in full.
