Albanian rappers drove military vehicle fitted with heavy MACHINE GUNS around a UK housing estate

Albanian gangster rappers drove military vehicles fitted with heavy machine guns around a British housing estate while shooting a music video that glorified drug crime and violence. 

In an online video viewed more than 17 million times, fearsome masked men cruised around the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, East London, in an armoured fighting vehicle equipped with a .30 calibre machine gun. 

The gang also brandished a .50 calibre Browning machine gun fitted on to a military jeep. 

It is believed neither of the guns could be used and were either decommissioned or replicas. 

The video, entitled Poppin Smoke, is the latest to be posted on YouTube by the notorious Hellbanianz rap group. 

A video shared on YouTube showed Albanian gangster rappers driving military vehicles fitted with heavy machine guns around a British housing estate

The masked men cruise around the estate in an armoured fighting vehicle equipped with a .30 calibre machine gun

The video, entitled Poppin Smoke, is filmed in the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, East London

They share the same name as a violent gang of Albanian drug dealers that has terrorised the area for years. 

It is feared the slick videos – featuring Barking-based rappers Ervin Selita, currently believed to be in jail in Albania awaiting trial for an alleged firearms offence, and Fatjon Dibra – are encouraging others in Albania to enter the UK illegally to join criminal gangs. 

‘These songs are glorifying violence and drugs and showing off a lavish lifestyle,’ said Muhamed Veliu of Albania’s Top Channel TV station. 

‘Young men watch these videos and want to move to the UK to enjoy this wealth. They help attract more recruits for gang bosses.’