“Elected officials like New York City Mayor Eric Adams see drill music as a sort of diabolical deal in which music industry executives and social media companies fuel and commoditize gang violence for profit. “Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Hutchins Center’s New Police, Incarceration, and Public Safety Institute.
Panelist Saida Grundy said one problem with facing the issues surrounding drill music is that it risks fostering the idea that black culture is more destructive than other cultures. An assistant professor of sociology and African-American and black diaspora studies at Boston University noted that Drill’s research cannot ignore affected individuals in the genre.
Forrest Stuart, a professor of sociology at Stanford University, warned that demonizing drill music gives the cancer system ammunition against young black men. and police have used the defendant’s involvement in drill music, including sharing lyrics on social media and “flashing replica guns in a YouTube video made five years ago,” to ramp up prosecutions. It turns out that there is
Stuart’s past research on drills on Chicago’s South Side also revealed how young people are using drills to find out which neighborhoods are safe and which are not. . “By hearing who is being shouted negatively and who is being shouted positively, they can quickly understand whose neighborhood they are in and who they are fighting with,” explains an urban ethnologist. Did.
Benjamin Alexander ’23 says: “I am very reflective of my role as a student and as a consumer. Can you see it? What exactly does my role look like? And what approach should I take to resolve it?”
For Dee-1, the answer to that question is simple. “As a consumer, you literally have options to support whatever you want to see more of,” he said. We may have to sacrifice popularity and space to publish content that will lead to a better world at ‘We have the choice.'”
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