That Peckham Boy: Growing Up, Getting Out and Giving Back

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Blunden, Mark (3 March 2011). "Teenager served with gang Asbo 'is planning human rights appeal". Evening Standard. London. Archived from the original on 6 March 2011 . Retrieved 13 March 2011.

Facing life: drug dealer who shot dead family friend of England star Rio Ferdinand". Evening Standard. 1 April 2014 . Retrieved 1 April 2014. Article: The Independent - Woman shot dead while cradling baby after gunmen gatecrash christening party In this life, you can be whoever you want to be.’Two days after his eighteenth birthday, Kenny Imafidon was charged with the murder of a seventeen-year-old boy in south-east London. Woman saved when bra stops bullet". 7 October 2005. Archived from the original on 25 December 2006 . Retrieved 21 May 2010.

Ard Bodied is generally considered the most influential mixtape to drop in the UK scene. It was the first time that UK 'gang' rap (Road Rap) broke into the mainstream, and marked the shift in general popularity from Grime to UK Rap: Gangster who called himself 'the number one hitman' jailed over gun violence". Evening Standard. 18 April 2011. Archived from the original on 21 April 2011 . Retrieved 24 April 2013. According to a former employee of one of these small-scale urban cable stations, the more explicit the lyrics, the more likely it would be aired. She said: 'If they aren't talking about popping your gun and repping your ends the station didn't want to know. I think it's disgusting and that's why I left.' Kenny struggled to shake the trauma and reputational damage that came from association with such a terrible crime. “You’re searching online and you see this name and this is what it’s connected to,” he said. “You try to get a job, find a partner do normal things, this is there now [connected to] your name.”

Gripping and personal story. Stuffed full of his own experiences of drug selling, gangs, poverty, racism, the criminal justice system, entering politics and, overall, breaking through social economic expectations. On the day of Damilola's killing, Danny Preddie was on bail for five offences. He should have been under a 24-hour curfew at the Abbey Street childrens' home for these offences, but he escaped that night to join his gang for what was to be their fatal clash with the 10-year-old schoolboy.

Outside court as the four teenage boys emerged triumphant in January 2002, they were met by the Preddie brothers. While the gang returned to their hunting ground, echoes of the failed Stephen Lawrence inquiry were resonating loudly within the corridors of Scotland Yard. Dummy. "The 10 Best UK Drill Releases To Date, according to Kwengface". DummyMag . Retrieved 2 November 2021.

Kenny’s book is capturing and heartbreaking - I couldn’t put the book down. Just imagining what is going through his mind when he was in a prison cell for a murder he did not commit. For his mother, who is an absolute pillar of strength and for the rest of his family and friends on the estate. The streets are clean, there's no graffiti on the walls and the houses are well maintained. Walking down this London road I feel no fear; in fact a mother pushing her baby in a buggy has just given me a friendly smile - a rarity in this city. Kenny's story shows us that we all have the potential to achieve extraordinary things. What a hero.' Bear Grylls For me, the real challenge lies in our convenient tendency to focus on intentions when looking in the mirror and judging others by their behaviours. Kenny's brave and unfiltered take on his own experiences highlights our challenge with selectivity. This inconsistency leads to a skewed perception of reality and sometimes hinders our ability to empathise and understand different perspectives. One way of overcoming this tendency is to strive for a more balanced and consistent approach to evaluating the conduct of others, being more mindful of our thoughts and immediate judgements.If you are interested in the history of our local area why not sign up to our regular newsletter which contains lots of fascinating historical info. In 2006, Giggs and brother Joe Grind dropped the ' Hollow Grind' mixtape. This is the first of four collaborative mixtapes that Giggs dropped between 2006 and 2009. The mixtape includes several classics: Hancox, Dan (22 June 2018). "The war against rap: censoring drill may seem radical but it's not new". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 21 July 2019 . Retrieved 4 August 2019. Growing up takes seems to take a long time these days so it’s difficult to understand how Imafidon’s life is sorted long before that of many others.

Kenny says, for the time being, his goal is to help young men fulfill their potential, to help them realise that an ordinary boy in Pecham can achieve great things: “Seeing is believing. I’m trying to show people that you can live the life you want to live, trying to get people to dream big.”

Young athlete's murderer David Nyamupfukudza jailed". The Independent. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019 . Retrieved 20 August 2019. Simon, Harding (2014). Street Casino: Survival in violent street gangs. Policy Press. p.310. ISBN 978-1-4473-1720-3. Future chapters are there for us to write, so he says, and what matters most is accountability and understanding that decisions are based on choice. As I walked around last week, I met a man who gave his name only as Mr X. He revealed a picture of young men boasting and showing off in an ever-spiralling game of 'I'm a bigger man than you are'. Much of it is centred on the drugs trade, offering the only employment in much of the area. In the end, guns settle disputes. Fans voted for the winner and Giggs won, becoming the first ever artist to win the 'Best International Act'. This was a big deal, because despite the police applying serious pressure to stop Giggs, he was still able to rise to the top. It was also another demonstration of the fall of Grime and the rise of UK Rap. Here's a video of Tim Westwood congratulating Giggs for the win: