"It is like saying that my love of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather makes me a mobster”: Campaigners hope to make lyrics and videos inadmissible as evidence

Judge in wig and robes.

Campaigners are trying to change the law so that artists’ lyrics cannot be used against them in a court of law.

At present, this is the case, and indeed, there have been incidents where drill artists have had their own words or even appearances in videos used as evidence that they are affiliated to a particular gang.