The killer was taken back into custody. Was it because of his drill rap songs?

One man was a known killer, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for killing a 16-year-old London student in a horrific confrontation in a bakery.

The other man was a mask-wearing rapper from south London, known as TEN, whose music about prison life, crime and bloodshed earned him a small but emerging reputation.

The two once separate identities became entangled in Britain Investigation in a popular newspaper This week it was claimed that Jake Fehri, who was released on parole from prison in the bakery murder, and artist Ten, are the same person.

This conclusion, in turn, cast a new shadow on TEN’s words about murder, bloodshed and weapons. It also contributed to the ongoing debate over drill music, a controversial style of hip-hop that artists say is a creative outlet for their experiments. But the officials He was blamed type to play a role in incitement to violence.

Mr. Fehri what? He was convicted of murder At the age of 19 in the killing of Jimmy Mizen, who was fatally injured after Mr El-Fehri threw a glass baking dish at him during a fight. The plate shattered when it hit Mr Mizen, severing an artery in his neck and causing him to collapse from blood loss.

At the time, Mr. Fehri said he was not guilty and had acted in self-defense. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years, and was released on conditions in 2023.

A day after the article appeared in The Sun newspaper on Wednesday, Mr Fehri was detained for breaching his parole rules, a Probation Service spokeswoman said in a statement.

The violations did not explicitly identify or link him to TEN. But she said Mizen’s family deserved better than “to see their son’s killer shamelessly brag about his violent crime.”

He criticized TEN for being a “street killer” and “swinging around the blade”. One lyric goes with an expletive: “Have you ever seen a man’s soul fly out of his eyes and his breath gone? I wanted it more, and that made it less wrong. I saw the blood flowing on the same floor where he was left.”

“For him to make money from what he did to our son — to make money from killing somebody — is wrong to me,” Barry Mizen, Jimmy Mizen’s father, said in an interview Saturday.

“It was very painful. It took Jimmy’s life,” said Margaret Mizen, Jimmy Mizen’s mother, speaking about the experience of listening to TEN’s music and hearing clear references to her son’s murder in the lyrics.

But they said the Mezzines are also concerned that rap music, like TEN’s, promotes violence and drugs to impressionable youth.

“It’s almost like war in our streets, and this kind of music aids and abets that,” Ms. Mizen said.

The BBC, Britain’s national broadcaster, has come under fire after a Radio program Which showcases new British artists including last year’s TEN Music. Office of Prime Minister Keir Starmer He told the BBC That the broadcaster needed to “answer some questions very urgently”.

A BBC spokeswoman said in a statement that it played two of TEN’s tracks, which did not contain the graphic lyrics highlighted in tabloid reports. She said there were no further plans to play TEN’s music, adding: “We were not aware of his background and in no way condone his actions.”

Efforts to reach Mr Fehri were unsuccessful on Saturday, and the Instagram and X accounts linked to the TEN Spotify page were made private. A statement posted Friday on an Instagram account, apparently from Mr. Al-Fahri, apologized to Mizen’s family “if my words caused any harm or distress.”

“I want to make it clear that none of my words target the victim or his family,” she said, adding that the words were an “artistic expression” of his life in prison. “I don’t glorify those experiences, but they are part of the past that shaped me,” he said.

He said that since his release, he has focused on rebuilding his life, adding that he has served his full sentence. He said he never intended for anyone to die.

“All I want is a chance to move forward with my life,” he added.

Drill music, which I grew up in Chicago More than a decade ago, the phenomenon spread to cities like London, New York and Stockholm, sparking conversations about the balance between censorship and public safety.

Artists and fans say the songs are a form of self-expression that reflects the frustrations of struggling communities, where issues such as gang feuds, gun violence and poverty are a part of life. Some groups I criticized Focus on rap as discriminatory.

But the officials and authorities did Blame Sparkling music and even incitement to violence It has been checked Songs for evidence of possible criminal activity. The drill rapper says they were Forbidden From performing in New York and Subject to tight control In London, where violent crimes have increased in recent years.

“It’s not about him wanting to stay in prison,” Ms. Mizen said, adding that Mr. Fehri could have chosen to write music to express remorse for what he had done. “It’s a case of him wanting change.”

She was disturbed that this round of attention might make her son’s killer more famous.

“In some people’s eyes, he would be a celebrity,” she said. “This is the culture we live in. This is troubling.”