In a three-part documentary, Graeme Armstrong travels to different parts of Scotland and speaks with street gangs who reveal the growing influence of drill music.
Street gangs in Scotland are being increasingly influenced by London’s drill music culture, according to a former hoodlum.
The development is revealed in Street Gangs, a three-part documentary hosted by author and ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong. The author, 32, who wrote about his own experiences growing up in gangs in Airdrie, in his acclaimed novel, The Young Team, said his recent work in communities and in schools suggested that gangs were on the increase in Scotland.
“That’s what Scotland always had, so the drill thing, it is a change of uniform. It is there but it’s feeding into our existing gangs.” He also meets Edinburgh drill artist and rapper YD who says: “I think violence is becoming more of a trend because it seems more cool to be violent for some reason. I hate to say it because I’m a drill artist but drill, from London, influenced it.”
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