VICE: YouTube is Working With Met Police to Take Down Rap and Drill Videos

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Period24 Feb 2022

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  • TitleYouTube is Working With Met Police to Take Down Rap and Drill Videos
    Media name/outletVice
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date24/02/22
    Description“In the dozens of police reports I’ve seen, I have yet to come across any that really recognise that rap is a creative or enterprising activity, nor that it’s fictional and follows formulas. It’s always the criminological lens and the literal reading,” says Professor Eithne Quinn, a senior lecturer at Manchester University, and co-founder of the Prosecuting Rap research project. “Such a framing is crude but – because of powerful, pre-existing stereotypes – it's effective.”
    URLhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnp8v/met-police-youtube-drill-music-removal
    PersonsEithne Quinn

Keywords

  • rap music
  • drill music
  • crime