Witnesses giving evidence to MPs looking into the overrepresentation of black young people in the criminal justice system have played down the role of urban music.
The Home Affairs Select Committee added a session on music to its original plan for the inquiry, after witnesses raised the issue. But representatives from the music sector cast doubt on the link between crime and music.
Roger Drakes, a DJ, said: "Music is a long way from what the roots of the problem are."
