Positive drill music receives more audience engagement

Drill music, a subgenre of rap, receives more YouTube views and comments when it has a positive tone, finds a programme developed by Dr Bennett Kleinberg and Dr Paul McFarlane (both UCL Security & Crime Science) to assist the Metropolitan Police in analysing threats in songs.

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