"drill Rapper" Gets 19 Years

[webbo3]

http://news.sky.com/story/teenage-drill-rapper-jailed-for-stabbing-boy-15-outside-chicken-shop-11775822

As they classed him as a drill rapper I wonder how many top ten hits he had and I always thought drill music didn't promote violence, why not just call him a teenage thug.

"The court heard Jean-Baptiste Appeared in gang videos on you tube and wrote violent Drill rap lyrics Before the murder.

[Mamyalynne]

Violent criminal locked up, as it should be.

Dreadful.

[ToraToraTora]

dam savage should never see the light of day again.

[jackthehat]

That's probbaly not long enough; a teenage thug he certainly is.

[jno]

you don't have to have top ten hits before you're a singer; you just have to sing. In his case he's also a killer and I hope will stay locked away for some time.

[tonyav]

No singing, jno.

[Gromit]

Pure scum.
Good sentence.
Hopefully prison will sort him our and he’ll be out in 5 years








- in a wooden box.

[Ellipsis]

I get the point, webbo3. The drill rap hardly gets a mention in the article and seems hardly relevant to the murder, so it's odd it's so prominent in the title, almost like Sky has something against it.

[andy-hughes]

As long as there has been popular music, the 'establishment' has tried to link it to bad behaviour from young people - from teddy-boys slashing cinema seats in the fifties, to current gang violence.

I just wonder if the youths in these videos realise how amusing they look and sound, with their identikit gestures and posing, they are like clowns in a circus.

Sadly, others of their ilk take their posturing nonsense as provocation, with fatal results.

[retrocop]

Yep. Music is bad just like cricket bats, gas fires ,drugs, electricity,knives and forks, motorbikes, boxing crossbows, historical re enactments, AB and my blood pressure. Not to mention guns of course.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // Yep. Music is bad just like cricket bats, gas fires ,drugs, electricity,knives and forks, motorbikes, boxing crossbows, historical re enactments, AB and my blood pressure. Not to mention guns of course. //

Correct me if I am wrong - you appear to be pointing out that all these things are only 'wrong' if used incorrectly, which of course is absolutely true, with the exception of guns of course, which are used for their purpose.

But the problem is, if you make these things available for correct use, it is not always possible to prevent incorrect use.