Inside UK drill, the demonised rap genre representing a marginalised generation

“London feels like a war zone. In 2018 alone, the Metropolitan Police has reported 50 knife and gun-related deaths in the UK capital, with an ominous rise – the highest in a decade – in the past two weeks. What seems like indiscriminate, inexplicable crime is having its root causes dissected and, in a state of moral panic and unfolding debate, mainstream media is clumsily pointing to one direction: the current soundtrack of the UK’s streets, drill.”