‘It’s a massive thing, this drill music,’ she added. Earlier this month, a drill song reached No 1 in the Official Singles Chart for the first time. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has said: ‘Drill music is associated with lyrics which are about glamorising serious violence — murder, stabbings. Most particularly, in London we have gangs who make drill videos and in those videos, they taunt each other. As drill music continues to blaze a path into the mainstream, the debate will continue to rage as to whether art is imitating life, or life imitating art.

Source: Daily Mail May 16, 2021 21:08 UTC