Former gangster and Little Hulton native, Jordan McCann shot to fame for his hit song, Lifestyle, which was released when he was in prison. His biography facts explored.
Jordan McCann has a “rap to grace” story. The notorious gangster grew up in jail. He has been convicted of crimes including violence, armed robbery, gang affiliations, and drug dealing.
While in prison, he released a song that ended up being his breakout into the music scene in the UK. His hit rap song titled “Lifestyle” which put him on the radar details his life of crime.
Here’s more about his life story, music career, hit songs, and his net worth.
Who is Jordan McCann? The rapper boasts some of the biggest songs.
Jordan McCann is a rap artist who belonged to a well-known criminal family in Salford, Greater Manchester.
He rose to fame after being convicted multiple times since he was a teen for crimes including violence, armed robbery, gang affiliations, and drug dealing.
He became worldwide known after he released his popular song while in prison.
The track, Lifestyle, had been written and recorded by McCann while he was 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 music career instead.
He has recorded a mixtape at the iconic Abbey Road studios in London and even embarked on a 21-city tour of the UK. He said: “From somewhere in Little Hulton to Abbey Road, that’s crazy bro.”
He has also branched into acting and features in the Amazon Prime series Jungle alongside stars like Dizzie Rascal and Tinie Tempah.
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.
What is Jordan McCann’s net worth?
Jordan McCann has accumulated a sizable fortune over the years. Per reports, although he is not yet a millionaire, he has an estimated net worth of £800,000. This figure is based on his potential annual earnings from his popular YouTube channel.
He accrued his money from his music career and revenues from streaming platforms and YouTube.
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.
Why was Jordan McCann sent to prison?
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.”