Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Speaker: Tareeq Jalloh (University of Manchester)
Twitter: https://x.com/tareeqjalloh
PhilPeople: philpeople.org/profiles/tareeq-jalloh
Title: Does Drill Cause Violence? (Over)Policing Rap Music
Abstract: The critique that rap causes violence goes back as far as the 1980s, but today drill rappers are having their freedoms restricted based on instances of a causal claim. Police in the UK regularly remove drill videos from social media and streaming platforms, and drillers are being restricted from making music and associating with people via criminal behaviour orders based on the claim that drill music causes serious violence. If this causal claim is true, it provides potential grounds for such restrictions on drillers. This paper argues against censoring drill on the assumption that it causes violence for three reasons. First, even according to the most charitable rendition of the causal claim, there is insufficient evidence to support it. Second, there is no reason to support censorship-oriented approaches to violence reduction over community-building approaches. Third, critics should not be advancing the causal claim due to its racist public meaning.
Chinx (OS) - Secrets not Safe (Music Video): youtu.be/s4ENHESO36Q?si=XMdNPViHl5xGhx9U
Skengdo x AM - Attempted 1.0 [Music Video]: youtu.be/7XmWS5DU96Y?si=XEN4omMwnj-hRBt9
@SkengdoxAM
#410 #drilluk #ukdrill #ukdrillreaction #drillmusic #cb7th #ofb #rap #newmusic #ukrappers #zone2 #ukdrillers #ukdrillmusic #rappersuk #ukrapmusic #410 #woodgreen #london
Speaker: Tareeq Jalloh (University of Manchester)
Twitter: https://x.com/tareeqjalloh
PhilPeople: philpeople.org/profiles/tareeq-jalloh
Title: Does Drill Cause Violence? (Over)Policing Rap Music
Abstract: The critique that rap causes violence goes back as far as the 1980s, but today drill rappers are having their freedoms restricted based on instances of a causal claim. Police in the UK regularly remove drill videos from social media and streaming platforms, and drillers are being restricted from making music and associating with people via criminal behaviour orders based on the claim that drill music causes serious violence. If this causal claim is true, it provides potential grounds for such restrictions on drillers. This paper argues against censoring drill on the assumption that it causes violence for three reasons. First, even according to the most charitable rendition of the causal claim, there is insufficient evidence to support it. Second, there is no reason to support censorship-oriented approaches to violence reduction over community-building approaches. Third, critics should not be advancing the causal claim due to its racist public meaning.
Chinx (OS) - Secrets not Safe (Music Video): youtu.be/s4ENHESO36Q?si=XMdNPViHl5xGhx9U
Skengdo x AM - Attempted 1.0 [Music Video]: youtu.be/7XmWS5DU96Y?si=XEN4omMwnj-hRBt9
@SkengdoxAM
#410 #drilluk #ukdrill #ukdrillreaction #drillmusic #cb7th #ofb #rap #newmusic #ukrappers #zone2 #ukdrillers #ukdrillmusic #rappersuk #ukrapmusic #410 #woodgreen #london
