YouTube has deleted dozens of music videos after complaints by the Metropolitan police that their lyrics were allegedly inciting real-world violence. Scotland Yard said it had asked the Google-owned site to take down between 50 and 60 music videos in the last two years. Is UK drill music really behind London's wave of violent crime? “Drill music is associated with lyrics which are about glamourising serious violence: murder, stabbings,” the Met police commissioner, Cressida Dick, told LBC radio this month. “Most particularly, in London we have gangs who make drill videos and in those videos, they taunt each other.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2018 23:01 UTC