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Policing black music | How Drill – the sound of Chicago’s streets – rewrote the rules of the music business

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The law against music in London

Drill music is not ignored, far from it, but it gets covered in a particular way; too often as an agent of violence, too rarely as a form of music in its own right. In this Slow Newscast, we speak to the man defending the transformative power of Drill, nurturing young talent, and creating a safe space for creativity and self-expression.

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