But drill's rising profile was soon hampered by the very violence it had been named after. Pac Man was killed in Lil Jojo, an year-old drill rapper and known adversary of Chief Keef, was killed in Inevitably these events overshadowed the music. Commentators called on record labels to drop rappers who encouraged violence, echoing the censure of gangsta rap in the s and 90s. The entire hip-hop genre was born from urban disenfranchisement, kids in the most derelict sections of the Bronx, in New York, congregating at block parties in the street because they were too young or poor to get into discos.
Once hip-hop's popularity had spread to the west coast, artists like the California crew NWA began making what came to be known as gangsta rap, which viscerally depicted the gang crime on the streets where they lived without judgement. As the music's popularity grew throughout the s and 90s, so did police interference , building tensions epitomised on the NWA single Fuck Tha Police.
But while NWA described notional anti-establishment violence in their tracks, drillers rap about specific violent incidents in which they themselves are the perpetrators. The veracity of such lyrics is the subject of debate in internet forums and, recently, court rooms. From the genre's birth, the belief that drill music has to be linked to real-life killing has maintained a sinister presence in the scene.
As the genre becomes more mainstream most listeners and artists have broadened their definitions, but even today it doesn't take much searching on message boards or social media to find fans arguing that music isn't really drill if the rapper isn't really drilling.
Offica is a drill rapper from Drogheda, a tiny Irish town 30 miles north of Dublin, who believes "violence in drill is kind of departing" Credit: Offica. Street Newz TV, a YouTuber who posts videos about the chaotic inner conflicts of the Chicago drill scene to nearly , subscribers, defines drill in largely non-musical terms. By "work", he means drilling, ie murdering.
He identifies , a track in which Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane purportedly referenced an incident where he shot and killed someone, as the first ever drill song most fans believed the victim apparently referred to was an associate of Young Jeezy, a rapper embroiled in a war with Gucci Mane. In spite — or perhaps because — of the controversy, drillers like Chief Keef attracted widespread attention. But the drill sound now permeating the globe is markedly different from that of the early Chicago artists.
Before reaching a truly international audience, drill spawned a vibrant London scene, where the music underwent a number of crucial developments. Among them were production techniques that became key to the updated formula, most notably the addition of deep surges of bass — variously described as revs, growls and slides — at the end of each bar, playing out quick mini-melodies rarely heard at such low register in other genres.
Corey Johnson, a former rapper and veteran of the British rap scene who witnessed much of UK drill's earliest iterations at his Defenders Entertainment studios in south London, says producers and engineers added these sounds to compensate for rappers not providing enough lyrics to fill bars.
UK drill is also linked with gang conflict, though in London "drilling" gained a new meaning. In a report in Fact magazine , a teenager from a Brixton youth centre is quoted as saying: "If Chicago drill is a gun, ours is a knife". While UK drill rappers still referenced firearms, they added slang terms like "rambo" knife and "splash" stab to the drill lexicon.
While the nature of the violence referenced was different from Chicago, the controversy it generated was much the same. In , rising numbers of London stabbings prompted mayor Sadiq Khan to criticise YouTube for failing to remove drill videos which, he argued, glorified knife crime.
A month later west-London drill crew were banned from making music without police permission. Then in drill duo AM and Skengdo received suspended prison sentences for performing a song at a London show.
Meanwhile tabloid newspapers criticised Apple and Spotify for " selling banned violent drill music ". They further stated things relating to religion and the fact that everyone is so scared of death that they have become obsessed with violence in their media.
It is for the purpose that there is so much glorifying of this violence within music, and it has clearly been shown to have connection with mental thoughts by those that listen to it, that we feel the need and the urgency for this music to be banned.
Again, we are purely talking about music that glorifies VAW. Props reliance on the idea that people are shallow minded and only use misogynistic music as their guide to making lifestyle choices is really not helping their case.
We are working on a more accurate portrayal of society where music can play an influence. The majority of music albums provide a buffer against ideas that are not accepted by the masses and help people in making better informed choices.
Team Australia has not made loose generalisations suggesting that all people are shallow minded and use music as a giuide to direct social and moral choices. The opposition agrees themselves that music is an influence.
We are concerned about the level of this influence. If the rights for one citizen prevents the rights of another citizen there is a problem and this is the case we are making here.
The problem is that for far too long women have been subjected to music that encourages violence against women so that many have adopted a tolerance to such material. When there is no representation to protect women and society in general then there is no where to go for complaints. This is flawed. Firstly there are few places women can go to change or prevent bands or musicians from making this music and producing it.
Secondly the wheels of popular culture are so powerful, fed by the consumerist mentalities of the marketers that responsible marketing and making of music has been abandoned at the cost of the dignity of women. This is evident in the absence of industry watchdog bodies that exist. What side prop fails to acknowledge is that people are generally reasonable, which is why governments empower people to make choices that could harm them, because we expect every adult to be able to make informed decisions, and most of the time we are proven correct, which is why most people are not criminals.
The harm that propositions logic has is that they do not realize that depending on the person listening to the song, we could have completely different interpretations of what the song means. This is because art is intensely personal; the emotions that art evokes are completely subjective, so one cannot simply assume that once someone hears a misogynistic song, they will be compelled to oppress women. For example, a lot of feminists maligned A Clockwork Orange for being exploitative to women because it depicted a lot of women being raped, but most people appreciated it as a warning against a society that was depriving people of their humanity 1 , metaphorically turning them into cogs in a clock.
This movie won four Oscar nominations, showing that gratuitous violence can be acceptable in society, and that we are capable of reading between the lines. So the question becomes: how exactly will proposition determine which songs are worthless and which are not? That is why censoring this music and any form of art is never a good idea.
We can never really know the value of a work of art to different individuals, so it would be wrong to ban it unless we can determine a real harm, but as we have proven, the only harm that has been demonstrated by proposition is completely assertive. Music is not legally rated, unlike almost all other visual and aural media, yet it is the most accessible and inexpensive medium and people, all over the world, can access music.
The content of such music cannot be equated with art. The opp states that music cannot be limited bcecause we all interpret it differently. Not only are these examples not alone, they are among a rising population of excessively violent lyrics which are most often directed at females. Artists often use allegory to convey messages, which is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. We see this all the time, e.
And what about pornography? Some feminist condemn it, some promote it, will phone sex agencies be legal or deemed misogynistic? In order for proposition to remain consistent, they will have to stifle society.
A more solid correlation to high VAW is poverty rates, neighborhoods,education, these should be fixed before a ban on speech. The opposition is introducing other content that does already fall under ratings or censorship therefore irrelevant to their case.
Opposition must stay on the topic. Fictional violence does lead to real violence!!! It is a sad state of affairs when we decide that fictional gratuitous violence is entertainment. So censorship; in this case. Hackett Publishing Comp]]. Glad to find this website.
I heard the song Delilah by Tom Jones recently and thought how confronting the words are. Both songs are about perceived ownership of the woman by the man and killing or threatening to kill is acceptable. Disgusting lyrics to have played on radio! You can also blame crooked policing, the governments involvement in crack-cocaine epidemic , or the lack of counseling for the trauma of Black youth.
While hip-hop music can normalize dangerous behaviors, these behaviors existed long before the genre itself. While individuals tend to analyze the impact that hip-hop has on the Black youth, they tend to ignore the circumstances and environments that led children to the point of susceptibility. While media undeniably influences the youth in a multitude of ways, violence in the Black community is far more complex than the impact of songs.
While blaming hip-hop music for violence is often convenient due to the level of ignorance often promoted to our youth, it tells a one-sided story that points the finger at the art reflecting a dysfunctional culture, instead of the system that created the dysfunctional culture itself.
Solely blaming hip-hop is an issue because it neglects and negates the detrimental societal issues that plague the Black community, and who is truly responsible for its occurrence. Research throughout the years has indicated that poverty often impacts decision making, anger, and the likelihood of losing emotional control.
It has also shown that single-parent households show higher signs of juvenile delinquency than homes with nuclear family structures. If violent rap music disappeared tomorrow, no evidence suggests that violence in the inner city would not slow nor cease to exist. Science Health Culture Environment. Share this Article. You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4. Love or abuse? Why the Childish Gambino video feels so awkward.
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