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YouTube deletes half of 'violent' music videos
YouTube says it has deleted more than half of the "violent" music videos that the country's most senior police officer asked it to take down. More than 30 clips have been removed so far.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has blamed some videos for fuelling a surge in murders and violent crime in London - and singled out drill music. She asked YouTube to delete content which glamorises violence.
Drill originated in Chicago. Its biggest breakout star is arguably Chief Keef, famous for his 2012 track I Don't Like.
[...] In the past two years police have asked YouTube to take down between 50 and 60 music videos, because they were deemed to incite violence. The video-sharing site has now removed more than 30 of them.
"The gangs try to outrival each other with the filming and content - what looks like a music video can actually contain explicit language with gangs threatening each other," the Metropolitan Police's Mike West said.
That's that shit I don't like.
Also at Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:20AM (4 children)
It's kind of fantastic tho how you can make a 5 minute song about how you don't like niggers, bitches, snitches and ... did I miss something? I think there was something about he didn't like people that wanted his drugs and money. Lyrics wise it felt like someone had forgotten to add a proper break on the for-loop.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:21AM
The remix is better.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:37AM (2 children)
The lyrical style and sound if Chief Keef, and drill artists in general, is heavily influenced by southern rap (see Gucci Mane, Birdman, Jeezy, Hot Boys), rather than New York/midwestern "lyrical" rappers. If you take the time to dissect the lines - and have the vocabulary to understand the meaning(s) - you'll find they say quite a bit more than they seem to at first glance. It's a style that is hard to appreciate for those who aren't immersed in the culture that created it, and so is unfairly maligned as being simple. "Don't Like" isn't a lyrical masterpiece though, it's an anthem full of hood and set repping, as you can see by all the gang signs and references starting even before the music in that video.
(Score: 2) by Jerry Smith on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:49AM (1 child)
Hipster much?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:41PM
vocabulary ... I can relate to that, I listen to some weirdass french bluegrass music and while you can enjoy the music without understanding the lyrics , you won't be able to see the depth behind the shiny banjo. And if you understand french without knowing the régionalisme of that region of Québec you wiill understand about a quarter of it.