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I had a Celsius for the first time So in me personally it was nasty, but I mean apparently it's doing something What's going on, I'm gonna head at this. I don't worry about it. It's gonna be smooth when y'all see it from me real smooth From the decaying ashes of the This video is brought to you by Squarespace The police say we're not trying to kill music This is just common sense. They're trying to stop murder from the decaying ashes of the chap in the early to mid 20s How's that working out for you? I'm pretty sure it's not There was in you RDR before music and it will be in you RDR after music He turns a brand-new subculture was emerging one that was much more violent much more organized and much more controversial the road Tensions between the UK authorities and the road man grew and grew and grew Eventually leading to laws being passed banning the music they held sacred UK drill today We will explore the road Subculture All black Norfaces puffer jackets Shutter bags like Air Max 97's and they're extremely complex and widely enjoyed slang Road man culture is very interesting It's become massively influential on the wider mainstream culture even outside of the UK But before Drake started dressing in stone islands the road man's Origins came from the old dying subculture of the chap Now I made a whole video about that if you haven't seen it I'll link it below Effectively the chavs were like the underclass of British society They were known for being troublemakers very antisocial very criminal But by the end of the 2010s the chav era really came to an end But fear not quietly in the underground in the 2000s culture a brand-new subculture was emerging and it all starts with music Miami I'm there won't be attending that whatever that is Grime was a genre of music in the UK that evolved from the electronic genre of garage It was pretty similar but instead of having Daniel beddingfield emotionally singing how he's got to get through this You had Wiley rapping about how he was gonna lay a man down He's the godfather of crime for two decades Wiley has been an influential figure in British culture Wiley got to a Wiley nice Wiley nice And it seemed like his flow has elevated with the culture is moving with the culture He just don't put out as much music anymore. He is often credited as like the godfather of grime What's interesting about Wiley at that time is that he had a very unique way of speaking a different accent before you can Hear me you can hear me But I'm speaking in the London accent as London's ethnic demographic changed over the last 20 to 30 years A very specific way of speaking an accent started to pop up around about the 80s and 90s Which now some people refer to as the multicultural London English accent When I first started reacting to UK stuff and I said that nobody y'all didn't even understand what I was talking about They all was like, what are you talking about? There's two accents when certain people be having two accents Like it'd be a UK accent and it'd be a homeland accent all combined in the one I said that should five years ago and y'all looked at me like, huh? No, it's not. Yes, it is. I knew it It's basically a mix of like traditional cockney geezer accent. I don't remember nothing I was obviously smashed out in the tray combined with elements of Jamaican This combination would go on to develop the very iconic roadmap dialect that we hear today But you see on top of just speaking different there was also a far more edgier attitude that came with what we would now call the Roadman an attitude that was more aggressive more in your face more bravado You could really hear this in the lyrics of crime often rapping about money cars girls party These young men who existed in very poor conditions were trying to find ways of gaining respect in their community Respect those often withheld from the wider British public and so pretty understand Is it is it lagging? Hey, what's going on man? Don't start with me today Don't start with me today switch platform Simply they weren't very happy about that and you could hear that in the lyrics of grime By the mid to early 2000s We were getting closer and closer to what we could call a roadmap, but something was missing and that was the fashion I think this was most ever Fashion I think this was most evident in the music video for game over by tinchy strider So the track starts with gigs and we see him wearing this outfit that sort of looks like he didn't Is it is the stream lagging or no? Like does it look like their mouth does not match with what they're saying on stream Because it looks kind of looks off to me Oh It's good I didn't know what he was dressing for like he could have been going out for a pint of his mates Attending a baseball game or going on a dinner date And then we jump over to devlin who's dressed as if he's just come from beating up away fans at a football match And then finally you got tinchy strider who has so much jewellery on him It looks like he ran out of money for the rest of his outfit And so as you can see the fashion was lacking But now it was the early 2010s and grime had actually reached a very low point after its massive success The sound became very commercialized and tried being sold to a mainstream audience It started to sound very inauthentic and grime just lost its popularity and it really died down But that would all change. Do y'all feel like drillers doing that right now too? I feel like drillers using losing his authenticity too. Like it's a lot of people won't do them drill. That's like Not about that life. You feel me? That's not about that life that's that's taking the authenticity out of it Engine 2014 with the second coming of grime meridian down dropped the tune german whip Now every single lad outside of a mcdonalds was playing this tune at full blast Skepta released two tunes in particular started doing really well, which is that's not me Shut down We're buying both tunes He was very specifically talking about fashion and why he changed how he dressed because of copyright I'm gonna have to perform the tunes for you. Yeah, I used to wear Gucci But I put it all in the bin because that's not me true I used to look like you but dressing like a mess. No, that's not me And then you got the other tune fashion week and it's shut down went to the show sitting in the front row in a black tracksuit It's shut down this sportswear roadman aesthetic was being popularized by skeptic so much so that in 2015 Skepta did a fashion model walk in malan dressed head to toe as a roadman as well storms He was becoming a massive ice and he would often dress like a roadman and then something insane happened Before we go any further this video. I want to give a massive shout out to square space for sponsor Square space is the number one platform for building and developing your own website. I understand you got to pay the bills But you know got nothing to do with me. I ain't got no office here Salute though. Anyway back to the video. I saw this guy and he had his hoodie on in his glasses And I I couldn't believe the pockets that he was finding and the consistency of his flows and just The choices that he was making drape for whatever reason just absolutely fell in love with the uk He would come out unannounced to underground grime events He would collaborate with grime musicians and there was endless jokes and memes about how drape turns into a roadman every time He goes to england man's never been in marquee when it's shut down a Trust me daddy. You see as funny as this was it was very beneficial to the uk music scene and the roadman culture But you see this is where things start to get dark Around 2013 a new genre of music was emerging from brickston in london with two gangs called 150 and six seven They were from a very rough area and were very involved in the gang world. This genre was called uk drill Now look grime was also very gang heavy talking about selling drugs violence, etc Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled That's why. It's no sugarcoating. Evil sounding instrumentals. To the lyrics talking about specific gang murders, showing weapons on camera and basically showing off this lifestyle. Now the two groups, 150 and 167, had beef. This would be considered the first ever UK drill beef. The things would start to change on February 24th, 2015. Now, 167 and 150 have been sending for each other over music. And it would be on this day where a member of 150 called SQ would be stabbed to death by a member of 167. Around the same sort of time, a member of 167 called Scripps was starting to actually blow up in the music industry. But you see, Scripps was an naughty boy. He was involved in a lot of criminal cases. And these cases resulted in him receiving a ASBO, an antisocial behavior order, where in 2014, the police banned him from making and performing music. But you see, Scripps was a very inventive man. He was able to scuttle his way around the band by changing his name to LD and wearing a face mask. So that's the main reason why people put face masks on. Because they're banned or something. That makes complete sense. I'm gonna change my name from this and I'm gonna wear a mask now because I got an ASBO. And I can't, you know, it's preventing money and going on my pocket. People that just come on with masks for no reason, it's like pointless, like what you doing? In 2014 to like 2017, UK drill was really, really blowing up. It very much developed its own sound separate to the Chicago drill scene. And it was finding success in the mainstream world of music. You couldn't escape it. Every single road man driving around in a voxel coarser selling weed would be blaring out drill beans. And so this was the final piece of the puzzle for the road man culture to truly take over. I feel like I edited this video. Seemed as though everyone loved drill, except for the police. The police don't like to have no fun. Was this meat just now, man? This was starting to link drill to escalating gang violence that was happening in the streets. These violence, which is, I mean, it's have true, have not, you know what I'm saying? Escape golden it, you know what I'm saying? Dabbins and shootings would happen after drill rappers would send for each other over tracks. One guy would kill one person and then talk about it in a track and then another person would send a track back and then go and kill him. And it started to get out of hand to the point where the police took very extreme measures. Today, a judge banned five young drill artists from performing or uploading songs that incite violence. Five rappers from the group 1011 were banned from making music altogether. The ruling is significant, thought to be the first time a modern day asbo has been used to censor art. What it was specifically being banned from doing was they dropped a RICO on 1011 for music. They got a music RICO. Mentioning in their lyrics death or injury and from mentioning named post codes in like a gang related context. If any of these members wanted to make a new song, they had to run it by the police 24 hours before releasing it. As well, they had to give 48 hours of notice to the police of the date and location of any performance or any filming of a music video and have police on site at the time. Firstly, apologies to all the fans out in Germany right now. Obviously, you can't make it there. Fed some of me and Skendo into court. As well, two other drill rappers called Skendo and A.M. had actually received a two year suspended sentence for performing the band song Attempted 1.0. Now, you may be wondering what led the police to take these. They got a two year sentence for suspended. I ain't know that. You've been begging real jail time with extreme actions. Around 2017, there'd been a massive wave of knife crime. It'd been the highest it had been in a very long time in a 22% rise. This sparked a debate whether drill had anything to do with this rise in knife crime. Because it did seem a little coincidental that the height of drill being a genre that talked about stabbing and murdering just so happened to be at the exact same time of this massive knife problem. The OG drill group, Six Seven, who was starting to do really well in the mainstream world, effectively had their entire first ever tour canceled. And this was because the venues were scared of hosting them. Due to a separate legal precedent, which was called Form 696. Form 696 was created in 2005, and it required venues like nightclubs to hand over details to the authorities around who was performing at an event, what genre of music they produced, the target audience of that music, and their ethnicity. As you can imagine, this was... Whoa. How is that legal? The target audience of that music and their ethnicity. How is that legal? Music they produced, the target audience of that music and their ethnicity. They literally made a law so they can discriminate. That's tough. As you can imagine, this received quite a bit of criticism. It was seen as discriminating against rap, grime, and other underground black led genres. In 2010, Geese had a... That's exactly what it is. The show canceled under Form 696. JME also had a show canceled, which led to him making a whole documentary on this controversy. But I'm starting to get concerned that what we do is slowly being strangled by London's police. And in particular, a form I keep hearing about called the 696. I was booked to play at Just Jam at the Barbican with Big Nasty in February, but following police advice, it was canceled the day before without a valid reason. There is a clear link between these drill videos, as they're called, and very serious violence. Even though they sound similar stuff, they're really saying, come to my neighbourhood, see what's going on. The police say we're not trying to kill music. This is just common sense. They're trying to stop murder. When we're trying to go to other venues now, it makes it hard. When you go to venues and they turn around and say, no, just because the police have kind of threatened them with revoking their licence, it's a piss-take, isn't it? Don't forward now 10 years to drill and Form 696, as well as these as boas, were being used to suppress this music. You see, the ban had the opposite reaction to what was intended. This controversy around drill only made drill cool. Made it more lit, isn't it? It was now counter-cultural, it was rebellious. It was this authentic street culture. A lot of these young people are disenfranchised and they are rapping about what they see, not necessarily what they are going to do. So it's too simplistic to say that because of this genre of music, there is a rise in knife and gang crime. And so this debate grew and grew around free speech. The question being something around what is the definition of inciting violence? Does free speech protect that? If I jumped on a UK drill bee and said, I'm gonna stab Bob outside of McDonald's at 10 p.m. on Friday, I'll release that song and then go and do that thing. Can the police use those lyrics as evidence in court? I'm furthermore... Okay, now that's an extreme example. Like, I always said, man, it's not about what's said, it's about who can say that they're most creative. Nowadays, that's how drill is, man, because everybody says the same thing over and over again. You just gotta be super creative and outside of the box, man. And, you know, you're gonna make it. Much more controversially, can the police stop me from putting those lyrics out there because it might lead to real-life violence? This became a big deal when people did research into it from the University of London, where they argued that the authorities' attempts to suppress speech were misguided and actually led to more harm. Even though their narratives are causing chaos in those communities, what they're talking about is a reality that society don't want to deal with. And for me, this is where we need to shift the discussion to, not just blaming and banning and censoring young people, but why really are you carrying knives? Why really are you carrying guns? To me, banning drill completely misses the point. All it does is target a symptom of a much deeper problem. These are usually young men who grow up in these communities surrounded by violence, poverty, and come from broken homes. Often the- Yeah, bro, it's like solve the real problem. So when the people that's going through all of this stuff and not getting justice and this, this, and that, and living in these neighborhoods with no opportunity to start speaking out on it, you want to put a muscle on them instead of dealing with what they're talking about. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, man, that's like, that's like, oh man, this is stupid. That's a- Only masculine role models that they can find are people who are in gangs, like older dudes, who people fear and respect. And so they see that as the only route for them to receive respect in this world too. What's really ironic is many of the rappers who make it out of this lifestyle and are successful often grow up into wanting to be these powerful, positive role models for these younger dudes. They want to show that it's possible to live a different life and get out of that. I mean, for example, Stormzy, he's always talking about his faith in God and his attitude to rising out of the world he came from. And like, sure, drill and roadmap culture definitely did glamorize violence. It probably did make things worse. But it isn't the problem itself, it's just a symptom of the problem. You have to assess what drives these men into these lifestyles and fix those problems and not just simply ban their self-expression. When I was young, before this music, there wasn't really a visual to see anything outside of here. But now I'm sure that a lot of people have hope and a lot more examples of people that have made steps further away from this place. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to leave a like and subscribe too. What's all that video, man? Tell them to like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post, not two feet. Yeah, it sounds. Let me leave a like, man. Appreciate it. Let me know what to say about it. I'm gone.