Legal Juice

A police officer who stepped up in a Fortitude Valley freestyle rap battle has become a cult hit on YouTube, as reported by The Courier-Mail.

The clip shows the officer being taunted by local rapper Fluence, who risks arrest for obscenity and public nuisance with a line about ``makin' bacon''.

Instead of whipping out the cuffs, Constable Jay pulls out a put-down - referring to his adversary ``downloading gay porn and watching it in slow-mo''. The crowd erupts. Constable Jay then quells the uproar with a plea to ``not cause too much of a ruckus''. Constable Jay has since earned the nickname ``Slim Shady'' from his fellow officers.

Constable Jay may have a new career ...

And Real Talk Battles League president Dennyson Willoughby has invited him to participate in a police versus citizens ``battle'' fundraiser at the PCYC. ``Honestly, I've had run-ins with officers and I've never met one so cool,'' Mr Willougby said.

"He just basically stood there, took it with a grain of salt, gave back his two cents and before it got out of hand, said: 'Oi, oi, calm down'.

``He's obviously got skills. Not only did his rhyme make sense, and it was an effective punchline, but he actually fed off of Fluence's rhyme scheme, rhyming 'low-low' and 'po po' with 'hobo' and 'slo-mo'.

``It was a pure, quality, 100 per cent battle-style rebuttal - which came from a cop... which was unexpected.''