Lethal world of drill music laid bare as heartbroken mum reveals how son’s horrific murder was PREDICTED in warped song

FIGHTING backmost tears successful court, parent Sharon Kendall’s humor began to boil arsenic she listened to chilling drill euphony lyrics that elaborate the harrowing mode her lad was stabbed to death.

Most disturbingly of all, the words, penned by Joel Amade, were written astir a twelvemonth earlier helium took the beingness of teenage Jason Isaacs with 8 weapon wounds to the back, successful Northolt, London. 

“Stab archetypal past talk”, “on formation mode erstwhile we walk” and “I’ll enactment holes successful your back” were among the lyrics that matched details from the 2017 execution and 2 much songs detailing the butchering were aboriginal released.

Recalling watching the euphony video successful court, Sharon, 44, tells The Sun: “It was horrendous, threatening and truly weird due to the fact that it was precisely what happened to Jason.”

It near the mum-of-four outraged implicit wherefore thing was done to halt pack subordinate Amade, who was aboriginal sentenced to 20 years successful prison, and tragically she’s not alone. 

Multiple families person recovered their loved one’s harrowing demise graphically elaborate successful the lyrics of drill music - a subgenre of hip-hop that often talks astir pack culture, drugs and crime. 

Sharon tells us: “I hatred drill music, it indispensable beryllium banned 1 cardinal per cent due to the fact that it’s not talking astir bully things, it’s astir sidesplitting radical and the horrific crimes they person done.” 

She believes a wide prohibition could “save lives” but opponents reason the existent contented is “violent lyrics”, which diagnostic successful galore philharmonic genres, not drill music.

In immoderate of the astir fashionable tracks, rappers boast astir their transgression exploits, often successful a graphic mode and with nary information for victims’ families.

This week, The Sun exposed however musician TEN, whose euphony was said to “really basal out” erstwhile showcased connected BBC 1Xtra, had previously served a beingness condemnation for murder.

Real sanction Jake Fahri, the 35-year-old killed “gentle giant” Jimmy Mizen aft throwing a glass oven crockery astatine him, which severed humor vessels successful his neck.

Sickeningly, the 2008 murder, which saw the 16-year-old bleed to decease wrong a southbound London bakery, appeared to beryllium referenced successful 1 of TEN’s euphony videos. 

Balaclava-clad Fahri spits: "See a man's psyche alert from his eyes and his enactment gone. S***, I wanted more, it made it little wrong. Seeing humor spilled [on the] aforesaid level helium was near on."

In different lyrics, helium speaks of a request to “sharpen up my blade” and watching a antheral “melt similar Ben and Jerry’s” crystal pick aft helium “stuck it on” him - a notation to stabbing. 

The household of Millwall FC instrumentality Jimmy, who were appalled that TEN’s euphony was promoted connected the BBC, told us: “The worst of this is it volition marque him a celebrity to some.”

On Friday, Fahri was was arrested and recalled by police aft we revealed helium had breached his parole.

In a statement, the BBC told The Sun: “1Xtra takes our editorial work precise seriously, and we person strict guidelines successful spot earlier immoderate contented is broadcast. 

“Whilst we instrumentality into relationship the request for creativity and creator integrity, 1Xtra does not glamorise unit and decisions connected euphony are made connected a case-by-case basis.”

Dealers, shooters & knifemen

But utilising the BBC’s level is furthering the careers of murderers similar Fahri and different criminals. The Sun recovered astatine slightest 3 criminals featured by the corp successful caller years. 

They were Jyrelle ‘Loski’ O’Connor, jailed for carrying a loaded gun; Rhys ‘Digga D’ Herbert, caged for convulsive upset and smuggling and supplying cannabis; and Irving ‘Headie One’ Adjei, sentenced for thoroughfare violence, dealing ace and heroin and carrying a knife.   

Jason’s murderer Amade and others person besides been endorsed by DJ Tim Westwood, who near the BBC successful 2013, and proudly appeared successful their euphony videos showing his look portion they wore balaclavas. 

These vocation boosts are past complimented by platforms similar YouTube and Spotify, which assistance drill rappers gain money and exposure, successful crook perchance starring to lucrative euphony deals.

Jayden O'Neill-Crichlow, known arsenic SJ oregon Slim Jim, was offered a £150,000 signaling declaration portion successful situation awaiting a proceedings for a brutal gangland murder.

He alongside 4 accomplices carrying a gun, knives and a machete, hunted down father-of-one Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck successful February 2019 and killed him successful a salon. 

SJ’s drill euphony radical OFC - Original Farm Boys - had 35 cardinal views connected conscionable 1 of their YouTube videos.

In that track, helium elaborate a shank getting “saucy”, meaning covered successful blood, and gunshots were heard aft they rapped: “I conscionable spot an opp (opponent), fto maine instrumentality him out.”

It’s alleged that O'Neill-Crichlow’s lyrics inspired astatine slightest 1 of 2 12-year-olds, who can’t beryllium named for ineligible reasons, to stab to decease pack rival Shawn Seesahai, 19, successful Wolverhampton, successful 2023. 

One of the killers posed with a representation of a zombie weapon and captioned it ‘SJ Prison Freestyle’, which is 1 of SJ’s songs that features lyrics astir utilizing a Rambo weapon to “rip done guts”.

Twisted boasts

Earlier this month, Kammar ‘Kay-O’ Henry-Richards, 25, was jailed for beingness for fatally shooting a pack rival Kacey Boothe, successful Walthamstow, successful 2022. 

In a euphony video for Kay-O Laughing Stock, helium boasted astir the limb being utilized to weapon down Boothe and besides his member Kyle successful August 2020. Miraculously the second survived.

He rapped: "Big Boothe and Little got deed (shot), aforesaid Sig (gun), that's a sour family. Both got slapped astatine functions, cervix and head, handguns travel handy."

Fame and luck tin await immoderate drill euphony stars contempt tracks containing bloody, harrowing and chilling descriptions of superior crimes.

Sometimes the root worldly is fabrication but different times it’s real, and for the families of victims, the boasts immortalised connected video taunt and haunt them.

Sharon knows this each excessively well. She says it took 7 months to get 1 euphony video that included twisted references to her precocious lad removed from YouTube.

“It’s scary, successful these drill euphony videos they are saying what they person done but hide that’s someone’s kid they person conscionable killed,” she tells The Sun.

“Amade is simply a murderer, he’s successful prison. He shouldn’t beryllium earning from the YouTube videos, making euphony astir it but it took a agelong clip to get them removed. 

“I deliberation successful 1 video, idiosyncratic enactment up a spliff and said, ‘We’ve got Jason, we’re smoking him’, referring to however they had killed him. These kids are conscionable brutal.” 

In November 2017, Jason, 18, was walking to a location enactment erstwhile helium was ambushed by Amade, who was connected a moped with 3 different pals successful Northolt, London.

Sharon tells america the pack subordinate had ne'er met her lad earlier that fateful nighttime but had “threatened him” a twelvemonth earlier either connected societal media oregon via text.

She says: “My lad was stabbed 8 times, not conscionable once, helium meant to bash it. My lad didn’t combat backmost oregon support himself, helium curled into a ball.” 

Sharon was celebrating a friend’s day erstwhile she received a telephone to accidental her lad had been stabbed and ran 15 minutes to scope her child, who was bleeding to death.

She says: “It felt similar I was moving successful dilatory question similar I was successful a film. I was successful utter shock. My encephalon couldn’t header with the trauma.

“His injuries were truly bad. He had his spleen removed and portion of his lung. He had 4 bosom attacks connected the operating table.

“I’ll ne'er hide when, aft 3 days, the surgeon told me, ‘We’re truly atrocious but his organs are shutting down. He couldn’t combat it. His injuries were excessively bad.’”

'Destroying lives'

The trauma of those memories and Sharon needing to determination from London to the Midlands to support her household made her each the much furious upon discovering Amade and others penned chilling lyrics astir her son’s murder. 

“These kids don’t realise the heartache,” Sharon says. “It’s not conscionable me, Jason’s siblings person each suffered. 

“My lad has anxiousness and doesn’t spell out, my girl is heartbroken inactive 8 years connected and my mum is simply a antithetic woman.

“It affects everyone, adjacent Jason’s friends aren’t the aforesaid kids anymore. One inactive has nightmares astir what happened. 

“It’s similar they don’t realise the ripple effect it has connected everyone, adjacent their ain families, and releasing euphony astir it makes it adjacent worse.

“We had to commencement caller lives successful a antithetic country and mislaid each of our friends. I mislaid the country I loved and my occupation excessively and my kids had to determination to antithetic schools.”

Sharon’s not unsocial successful her ngo to get drill euphony videos with convulsive lyrics removed. The Metropolitan Police requested YouTube instrumentality down 367 successful the twelvemonth up to March 2023.

Of that figure, 315 were successful. It was a large emergence from 2 years earlier, erstwhile conscionable 101 take-downs were asked for and lone 2 were denied.

Police started monitoring drill euphony successful 2015, astir 3 years aft it started to go much fashionable successful London and dispersed to the wider UK. 

By 2019, the Met introduced the Project Alpha taskforce to stitchery quality from societal media to forestall pack transgression and instrumentality down societal media videos.

Two years later, Sir Mark Roley, commissioner for the force, blamed drill euphony for “perpetuating unit and destroying lives among young Black Londoners”. 

And then, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ruled drill euphony videos could beryllium “admissible grounds for a assemblage to consider” for crimes involving suspected pack members successful 2022.

It has led to a showdown with pro-drill euphony campaigners, who reason the genre is not to blasted for crime.

Campaign groups similar Art Not Evidence person gone further, condemning the usage of lyrics successful tribunal cases and slamming prosecutors for creating "negative stereotypes" astir young achromatic people.

Lennox Rodgers, 61, who rehabilitates region lines pack members arsenic portion of the Refocus Project, notes not each drill tracks are convulsive oregon negative, but claims the genre is often hijacked by gangs. 

“The gangs person chosen to exploit drill euphony for their ain purposes, it’s that coupled with what’s going connected successful nine with region lines and weapon crime," helium says.

“It tin go precise controlled. If you’re portion of a pack that has beef with different gang, they whitethorn rap astir that oregon if determination has been an onslaught connected a subordinate successful a drill track."

Former region lines pack subordinate Harrison, 22, explains that drill euphony is “violent and aggressive” by definition, telling america the slang connection ‘drill’ refers to a shooting.

“Even if you’re not saying ‘I’m gonna sprout you’ oregon bash this, it’s inactive assertive nary substance what you’re saying,” helium tells The Sun. 

For heartbroken families similar Sharon's, however, the unit remains each excessively real.

The Sun approached Spotify and YouTube for comment.