New Rap Song “Don’t Shank, Just Skank” Encourages British People To Stop Stabbing Each Other

Hot new track burning up the British charts here.  “Don’t Shank, Just Skank” is a tune by rappers Donaeo, Rollin’ G, and a few others, and it is, in addition to being a certified club-bumper, also a certified Public Service Announcement Against Knife Crimes.  If you weren’t aware, the UK has a bit of a “citizens stabbing each other to death” problem, enough so that there is a governmental taskforce (TKAP or “Tackling Knives Action Programme”) and an active campaign to reduce knife-carrying “among 10 to 16 year olds.” (!!)

The campaign is called “It Doesn’t Have To Happen,” which is completely sensible.  By no means do senseless stabbing deaths have to happen, and yet it took a catchy hip-hop song to teach all of us that (us = you, over on that dystopian, gin-soaked, knife-crazy island).

Remember, kids: not so much with the shanking, definitely as much as possible with the skanking.

Source: BBC via The Awl.