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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Met monitoring song lyrics of rap artist it tried to censor on Instagram

Chinx (OS) in St John’s Wood, London
Songs not Safe? Scotland Yard secretly censored Chinx (OS) on Instagram, telling the company a track could lead to ‘retaliatory violence’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

Since being released from prison on licence last October, drill artist Chinx (OS), from the Regent’s Park Estate in north-west London, has written 17 music tracks.

Each one could have sent the 24-year-old, desperate not to fall back into his past life after serving four years of an eight-year sentence for possession of a firearm with intent to harm, back to jail.

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