![]() ![]() “It’s just made the genre more user friendly and more universal. He added that social media platforms like TikTok have played a crucial role in pushing the genre to a wider audience. It’s going to be exciting to see what young kid takes the baton and runs with it.” TK, the co-founder of Finesse Foreva, the independent record label that manages Skengdo and AM, describes the success of Body as proof of drill’s huge mainstream potential. According to the Index on Censorship, this was the first time in British history that a prison sentence was issued for performing a song. In 2019, the drill rappers Skengdo and AM received a suspended prison sentence for breaching a gang injunction, which prevented them from performing their song Attempted 1.0. In 2018, the rapper Digga D was one of the first musicians in Britain to be given a criminal behaviour order controlling his creative output (the impact of this was explored in a documentary released last November). ![]() It’s about having fun, dancing, enjoying yourself.” “Maybe this will show that drill isn’t about negativity. “I think drill music will get respected a lot more and people will listen to it,” said Millions. Photograph: Ollie Millington/Redfernsįor supporters, Body’s No 1 cements drill as one of the UK’s most vibrant homegrown music scenes in years, despite bans from the Metropolitan police and criticism that it fuels gang violence. Tion Wayne performs at the O2 Academy Brixton in London, in 2019. ![]()
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