The official London Fashion Week schedule had a fresh addition on Sunday night, as campaigners for and members of the Windrush generation modelled in a catwalk show. For the event, titled Next Generation Regeneration: Fashion and Revolution, they modelled plain black T-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘Compensation not Detention’ while one sang an acoustic version…

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Drill music and climate change aren’t the most obvious pairing, but now one artist has made it his mission to rap about toxic air. DrillMinister gained popularity last year when he quoted the violent language used by MPs in his track ‘Political Drillin’, highlighting the hypocrisy of politicians who say drill music drives crime. His…

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Drill artists Skengdo and Drillminister have been at the forefront of a censorship row that’s been brewing in the UK since Skengdo and his music partner AM were handed an injunction last year, prohibiting them from performing lyrics which called out rival gang members. Now the artists have teamed up with the Russian artist Andrei…

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ITV GOOD MORNING BRITAIN viewers were distracted from an important discussion today due to one of the guest’s choice of outfit, and they couldn’t help but comment on it. Today on the ITV show, Susanna Reid and Adil Ray held a discussion which saw a rapper state how there was hypocrisy when it came to acceptable language between white…

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Drillminister’s “Political Drillin” arrives after Met police linked the UK drill music to real life threats and gang violence, resulting in 30 videos being removed from YouTube. “Political Drillin” hits back at Drill music criticism by utilising comments from multiple Members of Parliament in a compelling drill-style track. Channel 4 commissioned the track, providing the drill…

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The violent lyrics of drill rap music usually refer to gun-toting gangsters and knife-wielding drug dealers, but one rapper has turned to an even more bloodthirsty group for inspiration: Britain’s cut-throat politicians. The use of violent imagery to attack political rivals over Brexit and other issues has been criticised this week. Anonymous Conservative MPs said…

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Violent threats, racial slurs and misogynist insults form the core of a new “drill” music track released this week, but they are all quotes from serving politicians and public figures. The song, called Political Drilling, was produced to highlight similarities between the language used by rival gangs on London’s streets and rival politicians in Parliament. “I…

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Drillminister was given the quotes by Channel 4 and asked to turn them into a drill song A drill MC has used violent quotes from MPs to create a new track, called ‘Political Drilling’. Drill music has been widely criticised for its violent lyrics and cited as a cause of the rise in violence in…

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