Guns, goats and Gucci: Gangland rapper Ay Huncho’s video arsenal revealed
Sydney drill rapper Ay Huncho – who has been allegedly linked with the Alameddine crime family – has filmed a new gun-filled music video in the Middle East.
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High-profile rapper and alleged Alameddine crime clan member Ay Huncho has filmed himself in the Middle East surrounded by an arsenal of military firearms while threatening his enemies in his latest music video clip.
Wearing combat pants and a Gucci hat, the baby-faced drill artist, whose real name is Ali Younes, waves around a Glock pistol while standing in front of a group of heavily armed black-clad men, many of whom are masked, in the video for Let It Spray.
In the background a run-down bullet-riddled building can be seen, along with some goats and a dusty hillside.
Firearms featured in the clip, which was uploaded to YouTube last week, include several AK-47 rifles and Glock pistols, a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun, what appears to be an AR15 carbine with a forward handgrip and a Mini Draco – an AK-47 variant cut down to be the size of a pistol.
The Glock pistol held by the rapper features an added drum magazine to hold extra ammunition and at one stage he also wields a combat knife.
It is not clear where the footage was shot but the area appears to be in the south of Lebanon, which Younes has recently visited after leaving Australia in April.
Fellow western Sydney rappers Wewantwraiths and Hooligan Hefs also appear in the video in gun-free sequences that appear to have been shot back in Australia.
“Let us pray, I slept outside like I sleep where they stay. Get the drop, I send a hit before the night turns to day,” Huncho raps.
“They know about me, they know they can’t slip away. Trust ain’t safe. Up to cases, sent bro to space. Why those drapes face? Because the Glock stays waist.
“Before start, I’d like to pray, I know it from the chain. Turn the page, I they still won’t let the stage.”
Hooligan Hefs raps: “When the gang say, to spread out, who’s you then? I should’ve seen the way I don’t wanna hear about talkers.
“I rap like this, this up to its full capacity. Touch though don’t get caught, do claim insanity.”
Younes, 26, has been allegedly linked to Sydney’s Alameddine crime family, which police have claimed is behind a large-scale drug syndicate and a feud with the rival Hamzy family that has resulted in the murder of at least a dozen people.
There is no suggestion Younes was involved in those activities.
However, he has claimed the notorious crime clan doesn’t exist.
The rapper left Australia on a business class ticket in early April after avoiding jail over a fight where one victim was left with a broken neck.
Younes was convicted alongside associates Moshtaba Hafizi, 26, and Charbel Nohra, 25, in relation to a shocking fight in November 2021 which involved the use of a pole to bash another man.
The rapper pleaded guilty to affray and was given a community corrections order and fined.
In videos and images posted to social media since then, he has claimed to be overseas in locations including Dubai, Lebanon and Greece.
He has also posted an image of himself at the Masjid al-Kufa, a historic mosque in the Iraqi town of Najaf, south of Baghdad.
In Lebanon last month, Younes did an interview with controversial TikTok comedian Jon-Bernard Kairouz, who rose to fame “predicting” NSW’s daily Covid-19 case totals.
Dressed in an all-black outfit and Gucci hat and shoes, Younes joked with Kairouz about the circumstances that led to him heading overseas.
Later on in the clip, Younes pulls out his passport and a thick amount of American cash from his side bag.
“(I) finally get some taste of freedom,” Younes said when asked how he has been after leaving Australia.
Kairouz also poked fun at the rapper’s situation, referencing his time in Lebanon, Dubai and Greece as a way of him “fleeing” Australia and “seeking asylum” overseas.
The rapper’s family is from Sarafand, in southern Lebanon close to the Mediterranean coastline.
In a 2021 Rolling Stone interview, he said he was sent to stay with family there after getting kicked out of high school.
“It didn’t work because I started running amok in Lebanon,” he said. “All my uncles in Lebanon are big hunters. My family is deeply involved in the military. I was becoming more militant.”
Two weeks ago, the high-profile rapper was fined $1100 in his absence for entering Star Casino in Sydney when he knew he wasn’t allowed on the premises.
While he couldn’t front court because he was overseas, high-profile solicitor Abdul Saddik entered a guilty plea on behalf of his client.
Younes was issued with an exclusion order prohibiting him from entering the Star Casino and Crown Casino on January 24, 2022, when he was in jail on remand. The order remains in force indefinitely unless revoked by the NSW Police Commissioner.
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