Life often imitates art, as they say, and that’s certainly the case with a Melbourne rapper after Victorian police issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court on several charges.
According to a statement by the Victorian police, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Corinthian Morgan, AKA MC Morgz, after he failed to appear in court late last year. The 27-year-old, of no fixed address, was scheduled to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court in September but failed to appear to face his charges.
Morgan was scheduled to appear in relation to robbery, theft, and charges to intentionally and recklessly cause injury. Police are now on the hunt to find the missing rapper, who rather ironically called his debut album Life On The Run.
Born in Shepparton and raised in Melbourne, Morgz started writing and rapping in 2001 while he was incarcerated as a way to stay motivated. Over the past decade he has been working on creating his own unique brand and style and links rapping to his healing process
More recently, MC Morgz rocked the stage alongside Alter Egoz as the opening act for one of New Zealand’s biggest Hip Hop artists – Savage.
On his Myspace page he lists his influences as Ice Cube, 2Pac, Outlawz, Snoop Dogg, Dre, Bone Thugz, Dogg Pound, WC, – many of whom helped pioneer gangster rap in the nineties, taking the genre into a more sinister direction and ultimately contributing to a turf war which saw a number die in shootings.Police are now on the hunt to find the missing rapper, who rather ironically called his debut album Life On The Run.
Australia was mostly immune from the gangster rap phenomenon, and even as Australian hip hop has finally found its legs in the later half of the 2000s it has mostly stuck to more positive themes.
It has also avoided most of the violence that plagued their American counterparts, with a few exceptions, such as the alleged unsuccessful drive by shooting of Emcee Kerser in May last year in the suburbs of Melbourne, and the stabbing of Lazy J outside of a nightclub in Sydney where the hip hop star had just finished a successful gig.
MC Morgz is currently listed as a signed artist with Payback Records, the home of Yung Warriors who are one of Australia’s leading Indigenous groups and have supported the likes of Akon, 50 Cent, and The Game.
The label are yet to make a statement about the arrest warrant, although their Twitter and Facebook pages have been inactive for some time now.
According to the rapper’s profile on the Payback Records site however, he is busy currently working on his second album. Now with the Victorian Police on the look out, it looks like he’ll be going back to where his musical career began.
