Drae Cliche is a 16-year-old rapper from Western Sydney who’s landed in hot water after one of his recent music videos which featured dirt bike riders pulling off stunts on a suburban street became the subject of a critical A Current Affair segment.

The Channel Nine program interviewed former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion Mick Doohan, who slammed the riders for giving “motorcycling a bad name” and criticising their stunts as reckless and potentially fatal.

“No amount of ability is going to get you out of some of the positions or situations you’re going to put yourself in by riding a motorcycle like this on the wrong side of the road in a neighbourhood environment,” Doohan told ACA.

“Even if you don’t injure yourself, you could potentially kill an innocent person at any age. Really, it’s just ridiculous and it gives motorcycling a bad name.”

Doohan said Drae Cliche’s video, which includes shots of the rapper executing a wheelie on a bike with no helmet on as six other riders execute other tricks across four lanes of a suburban road, glorifies such reckless riding.

“I think anyone driving past or even walking past would quite clearly be shocked at this sort of behaviour, and potentially be spooked, and may be become involved in a crash, courtesy of what’s going on around them,” said Inspector Peter Brooks of the NSW Traffic and Highway Patrol Command.

“They try to popularise this sort of thing, put it on Facebook and other social media. We’re also watching those social media posts and if not, other people send us those links for us to take action.”

TOMORROW NIGHT on #9ACA, Aussie motorcycle champ Mick Doohan takes aim at reckless riders.

Posted by A Current Affair onWednesday, March 2, 2016

According to A Current Affair, NSW police are currently examining all of the rapper’s music videos and social media activity to “assess what charges can be laid”. However, the bad press is unlikely to affect Cliche’s fan base.

If anything, ACA‘s report has improved the rapper’s profile. At the time of writing, the video is sitting at just under 30,000 views, with many of the comments left on YouTube making mention of the ACA segment.

“Don’t worry mate. You’ve done well and you deserve it for you’re work you put in to you’re music video. Tell ACA to get fucked,” one supportive fan commented on the rapper’s official Facebook page.

“This is just a bunch of close boys that love dirt bikes having fun. When you look at the area we come from, riding a dirt bike on the street is keeping out of trouble in our eyes. If you don’t like the sound of that, don’t watch and don’t comment. Bike life isn’t for everybody,” Cliche wrote on Facebook.

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