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 ...

This episode explores how drill music has inspired and shaped the global rap scene. Drill music started in Chicago over a decade ago and has since spread to cities across the world. In this video, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2024, Bronx rapper Cash Cobain released “Dunk Contest” on streaming platforms. Within the next few months, sexy drill found its ...

In just over a decade, drill has become a global phenomenon. Originating on the South Side of Chicago in 2010, it represented the changing tides of rap music as a whole. Less a testament to your ...

Everyone wants a piece of Cash Cobain’s sexy drill. The 26-year-old South Bronx rapper and producer’s sound and tag – “and this beat from Cash, not from YouTube” – are inescapable nowadays as the ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

A year ago, the hip-hop community lost one of its biggest, rising talents, Pop Smoke. Born Bashar Jackson, the 20-year-old drill rapper was shot and killed while in his Los Angeles rental home. The ...

He’s only been making music for seven months, but SK-47 is on the cusp of something big. The masked musician keeps his identity anonymous, like many artists in the U.K. drill world, to protect his ...