Australian IS recruiter Neil Prakash was a wannabe gangster rapper

BEFORE working his way up the ranks as an Islamic State terrorists, the man believed to be behind the Anzac Day attacks was recording rhymes in his mate’s basement.

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HE’S risen to become the highest ranked Australian in terrorist outfit Islamic State responsible for recruiting impressionable young men to fight in Syria, but Neil Prakash once had alternative aspirations, it has been revealed.

Under the name Kree Dafa, the 23-year-old recorded rhymes with themes of sex, drugs and Islam as a young wannabe rapper, The Australian revealed.

The often misogynistic and expletive laden tracks were recorded about two years ago, but Prakash’s rap career never really took off. Now he’s better known as the chief recruiter of Australians to the senseless death cult, and the alleged director behind what counter-terror authorities believe would have been an attack on Australians on Anzac Day just past.

Neil Prakash as a young man prior to converting to radical Islam and joining the ranks of Islamic State.

Uncovered recordings reveal the Australian man of Fijian-Indian and Cambodian background was fantasising about girls and describing grotesque scenarios where he would describe taking women back to his “crib” and act like “just an animal”.

He also included frequent references to drugs, and to Islam, which he was in the early stages of converting to.

“This is my life, smokin the green/In that day Islam, man, now Shorty’s in between,” he raps on one track.

“I ain’t playing, I’m just sayin, hotel room with me and you laying down/It’ll be worth it that’s for certain you deserve it/Three course meal with me as the main,” he says in another.

Other tracks, recorded with the Melbourne man’s friend “James”, have strong sexual and often violent themes.

“Get out of my face b****, here’s my d***/Open wide and suck that s***/Yeah, slap me with it,” he says on the track Nameless.

Cambodi_vid: Abu Khaled (aka Neil Prakash) (right), an Australian believed to be from Melbourne, sits alongside fellow Australian Islamic State fighter Abu Nour al Iraq in a propaganda video released by the group in mid-2014. Supplied

At the time of the recordings, Prakash was believed to be in the early stages of his conversion to Islam, often seen at the controversial and now defunct Al-Furqan bookstore.

His conversion coincided with his severing ties with family before travelling to Syria.

Now as a high profile, and high ranking member of Islamic State, Prakash seems to have given away his rap game and misogynistic lyrics, just last week promoting fellow Muslims to kill nonbelievers for “violating” Australian Muslim “sisters”.

“Look how much your sisters have been violated,” he said in the recent propaganda video.

“All I hear on the news in Australia is this sister was hurt, this sister was hurt. Her hijab was ripped off.”

Prakash, who goes by the name Abu Khaled al-Cambodi, urges “brothers” to stage terror attacks on Australian soil.

“Now is the time to rise, now is the time to wake up — You must start attacking before they attack you,” he said.

The 23-year-old is believed to have filled the role vacated by Mohammed Ali Baryalei, a former Kings Cross bouncer and part time actor turned radical street preacher who travelled to Syria to fight with IS and was killed in action last year.

Monash University terror expect Greg Barton told ABC’s 7.30 Prakash’s rise to step in as “Baryalei Mark II”, was “significant”.

“That makes him, like Baryalei before him, the highest ranking Australian within Islamic State we’re aware of,” he said.

Professor Barton said it looked as if Prakash was right in the “nucleus” of the highly organised group, and it appeared his recruitment messages were coming “from the upper levels of command”.

Originally published as Australian IS recruiter Neil Prakash was a wannabe gangster rapper