OneFour managers Adit Gauchan and Nick Lupi offer cash surety in rapper’s bail application

The management team behind western Sydney rap group OneFour agreed to stump up cash and act as babysitters in a desperate bid to get one of their star performers released from custody.

OneFour rapper Dahcell ‘Celly’ Ramos will remain behind bars after being refused bail on affray and weapons charges. Picture: Instagram

A bid to free a OneFour rapper on bail so he could keep recording their new album saw the group’s managers offer up a $20,000 cash surety, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Dahcell ‘Celly’ Ramos has been behind bars on remand since he was arrested on April 8 – a month after police allege he threatened a man with a kitchen knife at a house party in western Sydney.

In a bail application before the NSW Supreme Court last week, OneFour’s managers, Adit Gauchan and Nick Lupi of One Day Entertainment, said Ramos was in the middle of working on OneFour’s upcoming album under contract with Sony Music Australia.

The two men said they were willing to deposit a $20,000 cash surety to secure Ramos’ release from custody on strict conditional bail, despite running the risk of losing the cash if Ramos skipped town.

“We understand that if Dahcell fails to appear at court in accordance with his bail acknowledgment we may potentially lose this money,” Mr Lupi wrote in an affidavit tendered to the court.

Ramos’ management team at One Day Entertainment agreed to put up a $20,000 cash surety to secure his release on bail.

The duo also agreed to effectively babysit the 25-year-old should he be at liberty.

“Both Adit and I are willing to be acceptable persons with whom Dahcell is permitted to be in the company of as an exception to the house arrest condition,” Mr Lupi wrote.

Mr Lupi said the group was currently travelling between recording studios in Arndell Park and Newtown to complete the album – slated for release later this year – but that members were also required to attend “creative planning meetings including photo shoots, video shoots and regular band meetings”.

“We are aware that Dahcell will likely be restricted in terms of his ability to engage in these activities if granted bail,” Mr Lupi wrote.

“We are understanding of this situation and will continue to provide support in every capacity if [he is] granted bail.”

Justice Deborah Sweeney refused Ramos’ application, finding he had failed to convince the court that his ongoing detention was not justified.

Meanwhile, the managers hinted in the same affidavit that fans can expect some subtle changes in the group’s upcoming music releases, suggesting the new album reflected a “degree of change in their lives in the context of growth and maturation”.

Ramos will remain behind bars on remand until his case returns to court later this year.

“These overarching themes are mirrored in their new music expected to be released later this year,” Mr Lupi wrote.

The court heard Ramos had taken an active role in community outreach and “mentoring” in recent times, with Mr Lupi noting he was involved in facilitating kids’ gym and fitness sessions designed to “divert at-risk youth from interacting with the justice system”.

Ramos, who the court heard is no stranger to the inside of a jail cell having spent almost six years behind bars for his involvement in a violent hammer attack at a western Sydney hotel in 2018, is currently facing affray and weapons charges amid allegations he tried to stab a man during a heated confrontation at a home in Cranebrook last year.

Ramos is yet to enter a plea to the charges, however his lawyer told the Supreme Court Ramos was not the aggressor and had instead been trying to “defuse” the situation between rival parties.

The case will return to court at a later date.

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