ONE of the world’s biggest rap groups - the Wu Tang Clan - has weighed into the NSW lockout law debate in their first visit to Australia in five years.

To a crowd of 4,870 at the Hordern Pavilion last night, the rap supergroup, who has sold more than 40 million albums, vowed to get the laws banning entry to CBD venues after 1.30am and 3am last drinks overturned.

Defacto Wu Tang leader RZA, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, told the crowd as the group were finishing their set that they would have their after-party at Jam Gallery in Bondi Junction because of the “crazy” laws.

“We heard y’all got some new laws,” RZA said.

“We going to to get these laws changed for y’all.”

Best known for hits like C.R.E.A.M and Protect Ya Neck, it is the first time the seminal rappers have weighed into NSW policy debate.

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The lockout law debate has been intensifying in NSW ahead of an independent review of the liquor laws, with up to 15,000 people protesting the policy over the weekend in a Keep Sydney Open rally.

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Kogarah Labor MP and future leadership aspirant Chris Minns wants to see the laws rolled back because of their crippling effect on live music, and said he was glad to see support from the Wu Tang.

“I don’t normally get my policy advice from a man named Ghostface Killah but on this one he is right. These laws need to be changed,” Mr Minns told the Daily Telegraph this morning.

Mr Baird supports keeping the laws in place, because of their effect on public safety.

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They were brought in by former Premier Barry O’Farrell in an emergency sitting of Parliament in 2014 after the shocking one punch deaths of Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie.

“I think everybody knows how I feel,” Mr Baird said.

“Now it’s time for the rest of the community to have their say, as we commence an independent review under Ian Callinan.”

On the weekend, Last Drinks Coalition spokesman Dr Tony Sara said the laws should be extended to any area that has trouble with alcohol-fuelled violence.

Within a year of the lockout laws being enacted there was a 25 per cent drop in seriously injured patients presenting to emergency at St Vincent’s Hospital during its busiest period, between 6pm Friday and 6am Sunday.

Promoter Nicholas Greco, whose company Beyond The Valley brought the group out, said the lockout laws were ridiculous.

“As inner Sydney is held hostage by these ridiculous lockout laws we held the WU TANG clan afterparty in Bondi junction at Jam Gallery so the guys could actually get in when they rocked up,” he said.