3AW Air Interview With 360, Only It Wasn't Actually 360

3 November 2014 | 6:26 pm | Staff Writer

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Will the real 360 please stand up?

The outspoken Aussie rapper, whose real name is Matt Colwell, has posted to his Facebook page calling out radio station 3AW and host Tom Elliott for airing an interview "with 360" over his recent comments on Q&A, despite the person being spoken to not actually even being 360.

"I just got a call saying Tom Elliot from 3aw was about to interview me live about my comments on QandA.. This is the first I'd heard of it," the rapper posted to Facebook this afternoon. "So I recorded the interview and it is highly amusing. Tom Elliot, isn't this the second interview you've interviewed someone posing to be someone else? Tom Elliot, do you even journalism?"

As the interview begins, "360" asks Elliott, "Is this live, or are you going to quote me out of context again?" before Elliott affirms it is indeed being broadcast live, despite the fact — as 360's post shows — the real rapper was actually sitting at home trying (and failing) desperately not to burst out laughing for the six-or-so-minute back and forth as it becomes clear to Elliott that the man on the other end is not who he claims to be (which, along with 360, includes being a member of the Illuminati and a unicorn). 

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You can hear Elliott's chat with "360" about the Q&A brouhaha via the actual artist's Facebook post below.

 
Post by 360.

This is not the first butting of the heads between 360 and Elliott — in the immediate wake of his appearance on Q&A, Elliott wrote an article for Murdoch paper The Herald Sun about the rapper's comments regarding his opinion about the Australian flag, to which 360 took exception.

"It's a shame that after my appearance on Q&A, the only thing people are focussing on is what I said about our flag, not the actual problem at hand," 360 said at the time.

Elliott has responded to the error on Twitter.

Elliott's previous case of mistaken identity, to which 360 refers in his tweet and wall post, involved an August interview with a man claiming to Islamic State militant Omar al-Shishani. You just can't trust anyone these days.