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 ...
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 ...
The Royal Easter Show and the NSW Police recently announced a ban on "rapper music" following the murder of Pacific young person, Uati "Pele" Faletolu last year. The Royal Easter Show's general ...
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. A ...
On his debut album, the Brooklyn rapper hopes to smooth a path forward for the city’s ascendant hip-hop scene, even as it draws criticism amid a rise in gun violence. Fivio Foreign hopes to become ...
In February, Mayor Adams blamed drill music for some violent crime and called for the removal of drill videos from social media. Then he backtracked, met with some drill rappers, and said he’d work ...
FBG Murda, a rising star in the Dallas drill rap scene, was reportedly shot multiple times in Irving, Texas, on August 26, 2025. The incident has left fans and the hip-hop community concerned, as ...
The cover of ALLBLACK's very first mixtape, 2015's No Shame, features a picture of his father kneeling in a Pop Warner football uniform. He wears the number 22 on his jersey, symbolizing the East ...
Celebrating the career of the late Pop Smoke. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands soon. Just four Wednesdays later, on Feb. 19, Pop was ...
Hip-hop superstars — and the artists they inspired — bring their sounds to stages around the Beltway this month.
Brooklyn's up-and-coming star, Smoove'L is officially off the market. After building a large following in 2019, Complex confirms that the New York rapper has signed a joint record deal with Run Music ...
Drill, a subgenre of trap, already a subgenre of rap, emerged out of Chicago’s South Side in the early 2010s. In the 12-ish years since its birth, drill has found an audience, and indeed eager artists ...
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