GQ: I Made Beats With New York Drill Rap's Hottest Producer, Cash Cobain I Made Beats With New York Drill Rap's Hottest Producer, Cash Cobain New York Daily News: Behind the beats: NYC’s drill rap insiders claim there’s more to the music than violence linked to the genre Behind the beats: NYC’s drill rap insiders claim there’s more to the music than violence linked to the genre Pitchfork: AXL Beats Is the London Rap Producer Bringing Brooklyn Drill to Drake and Travis Scott AXL Beats Is the London Rap Producer Bringing Brooklyn Drill to Drake and Travis Scott Okayplayer: How Sample Drill Is Leading One Of Rap's Most Bizarre Sampling Eras How Sample Drill Is Leading One Of Rap's Most Bizarre Sampling Eras xxlmag: A Look Into the Best Flows From Rappers Who Usually Don’t Do Drill Music It took about 10 years, but drill music has successfully surpassed regional popularity in Chicago. Flowing on a drill beat can be a challenge for anyone who’s not used to doing it. Sometimes, the ...

Understanding the Context

A Look Into the Best Flows From Rappers Who Usually Don’t Do Drill Music The sound of drill is the brazen brrrrrap of street-level rap over the past decade. It’s the unsettling, aestheticized sound of gunplay evoked by spraying hi-hats, double-tapped rhyme blasts, and a ... When Angel Reyes helped a friend record his first rap song using a microphone in a cardboard Timberland shoebox, he was just having fun. “We just were in here playing beats,” he recalled.

Key Insights

“Like, it ... AllHipHop: Drill, Trap, Cloud Rap: A Guide to Hip hop’s Major Styles From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. Hip ... Drill, a subgenre of trap, already a subgenre of rap, emerged out of Chicago’s South Side in the early 2010s.

Final Thoughts

In the 12-ish years since its birth, drill has found an audience, and indeed eager artists ... Marked by no-frills rapping and nightmarish production, Chicago drill music traveled around the globe at the speed of the internet throughout the last decade. Eventually, Brooklyn rappers tried on the ...