Drill rapper and filmmakers taking ‘grim reality’ of county lines drugs to parliament
It takes just minutes for the scenes to turn grim: a dirty trap house, a drug user injecting scabbed feet, a tiny baby crawling amid the filth.This is Trapping, a new British film starring MOBO-winning drill rapper Abra Cadabra and produced by filmmakers and grime pioneers Femi Oyeniran and Nicky "Slimting" Walker. Later this evening, they take the story to parliament for a discussion about the bleak reality of the UK's county lines problem, where vulnerable adults and children as young as six, according to the Children's Society, are recruited to move and supply drugs.While the portrayal of drug dealing often shown on screen has long drawn criticism for glamourising the lifestyle, the same cannot be said for Trapping. Rather than focusing on the "girls, the money, the cars", as writer and...
