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Last year, journalist Dotun Adebayo had written a piece for The Sun about listening to grime/rap music for 12 hours and after he was left feeling violently angry, almost as if he could have knifed someone, I personally think he was a bit over the top, but I would soon have to question it myself. I re-visited this topic when earlier this month a young man by the name of Nathan Harris, 16, was sent down for life due to committing two murders on fellow young people. He was said to have been caught on the social networking site Facebook, boasting about what he did to his victims by putting his violent rap lyrics up on the site. The report then went on to say that Nathan was a big fan of guns and violent music, which made me ask myself; does underground music really influence the minds and actions of our black British youth?
Read the rest of this article over at The Independent: HERE
