Inmates at Salford prison caught shooting viral rap video in their cells using smuggled phones – right under the noses of guards

• The video, which has thousands of views, shows Forest Bank prisoners rapping
• The group features two rappers self-named L1 Manny and Mazza L20
• Participants walk down prison corridors and make gun signs with their hands 

Inmates at a prison in Salford have posted a viral video on TikTok and YouTube of them rapping using smuggled phones, unbeknown to prison guards. 

The music video, which has had thousands of views, shows Forest Bank prisoners mouthing the words to their self-written rap in cells and on the prison wing.  

The two-minute clip, ‘filmed by all the mandem’, features two rappers named L1 Manny and Mazza L20.

Participants can be seen covering their faces and making gun signs with their hands while rapping the lyrics. 

A spokesperson for the privately-run prison said: ‘We constantly review our activity to tackle the issue,’ according to Manchester Evening News.

One of the lines in the rap states: ‘Do you know what it’s like when you lose hope, seven years straight and you still gotta do sosh.’

The full video posted on YouTube includes a screenshot of a news article from January last year about a prison officer who brought £50,000’s worth of paper laced with synthetic cannabinoids, commonly known as spice, into the jail. 

Viewers who reach the end of the video are directed to a number of Instagram accounts including one for Manny, one of the rappers. 

The video had recieved thousands of views after being posted on TikTok and YouTube

Participants can be seen covering their faces and making gun signs with their hands while rapping the lyrics

Inmates in the video can be seen in the wings of the Salford prison, where their cells are 

Asked about the video, a spokesperson for HMP Forest Bank said: ‘We can confirm that this video was filmed several months ago. The use of mobile phones in any prison is illegal, and we constantly review our activity to tackle the issue.

‘Where individual prisoners are identified, action is taken.’ 

The Sodexo-run prison has seen a series of illegal activity within the prison walls.

In December a video of a criminal went viral after he hosted his own ‘Prisoners’ Got Talent’ show behind bars.

Sam Walker, whose previous includes drug dealing and driving while disqualified, has racked up 35,000 views on clips of him recording ‘performances’.

One shows him sitting in a cell in the jail as he asks an inmate to introduce himself and explain what his talent is, just like a judge on Britain’s Got Talent.

One video shows Sam Walker sitting in a cell in HMP Forest Bank, Salford, asking a man what his talent is

Meanwhile in 2021, inmates smuggled contraband into what is believed to be HMP Forest Bank after it was hurled over the prison walls inside burning socks.

Footage showed several men gathered in the exercise yard as the socks, which are understood to have contained drugs, are thrown into prison grounds.

The flaming socks burn holes in the security netting and fall into the hands of the inmates below as the convict filming the scenes shouts: ‘Go on, the boys. Go on, our lads!’  

A total of three illicit packages were thrown over the prison walls inside the burning socks.  

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