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pirateborrow some from libgen or Anna’s Archive - For those of us who are more of a verbal learner, check out the Channel Socialism 4 All (the link is Yewtu.be, so no worries on the privacy)
I didn’t know about this. Looking into it, turns out police literally cited music videos as the cause behind violent attacks, a theory that was unsurprisingly supported by an ultra conservative think tank. London having a normal one. Do you have a link to any such music?
Here’s some more popular tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEtGN4zLyc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxSoZyxqzSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ok-i3uGXkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svxwIa5mxjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JZ4nnukEg
So my main source on this was this book I read recently;
They talk about the origin of drill music in the UK as being linked to these tracks, so here you go;
https://youtu.be/f10yTpZzuv4
https://youtu.be/tMkK4JR-pho
They mention that think tank in the book, they also talk about how this attempt to associate black music with violent stereotypes is hardly anything new, its been going on to grime artists prior to this, I suppose the new thing about it is that drill artist get banned from even entering certain postcodes and given 4-5 year prison sentances for not comitting a crime, but refrencing a already convicted murder they where just aware of as it had been publicized in the news. Its clearly not about just censoring supposed violent music but about removing voices from the victims of austeirty.