Gangster rapper who spent years behind bars in Sydney lifts the lid on 'secret' jail language he claims police officers couldn't understand
- Sydney-based underground rapper Spanian has lifted lid on 'secret' jail language
- The reformed gangster claimed to have taught the language to inmates
- He said intelligence officers couldn't understand a word of the bizarre dialect
A reformed gangster who turned to rap after spending most of his youth behind bars has lifted the lid on a 'secret' language used by criminals to fool police officers.
The Sydney-based underground rapper, who goes by the name Spanian online, took to his 11,000 Instagram followers to show off the bizarre dialect.
'That's a real language brother, that's a real language cuz,' he said.
'That's jail phone language. We speak that on jail phones ... I used to order anything on a jail phone. The intel (intelligence officers) didn't know nothing.'
Sydney rapper Spanian took to Instagram to boast about a 'secret' jail language
Spanian claimed that only a handful of people knew how to speak the language, writing: 'I used to have boys ofering money in the account to teach em and I never sold it once.'
'Only taught a few (the language) out of love,' he added.
The rapper's fans were quick to praise him for the strange 'lingo', with one writing: 'Should make a whole mixtape in this language.'
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Other supporters were more skeptical, writing: 'Sounds Arabic lad.'
Spanian has previously opened up about his life of crime in a 20 minute documentary-style YouTube video posted by Bull Pro Media.
The rapper claimed he was locked up when he was just 15 years old, tried heroin at 18, and had his older brother die of an overdose when he was in jail.
He also claimed to have stabbed a person in the neck with a box cutter as an act of revenge the day he was released from jail for another crime.
'That's jail phone language. We speak that on jail phones ... I used to order anything on a jail phone. The intel didn't know nothing,' he said
He claimed to have taken a plea for grievous bodily harm for the attack, spending three and a half years behind bars after an attempted murder charge was dropped.
'I thought I was gonna do eight or 12 [years in jail],' he said.
Spanian currently lives in Woolloomooloo in Sydney's inner-east.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the NSW Corrective Services for comment.
The rapper claimed he was locked up when he was just 15 years old, tried heroin at 18, and had his older brother die of an overdose when he was in jail
