Why Have So Many Countries Adopted Drill Rap? 

London’s drill scene has probably had the most impact globally, it’s influenced drill music in a lot of European countries, Ghana, Australia etc

Pop Smoke was going to be a Super-Star. His voice, style and adlibs were unique to anyone that came before him. He was also going to be the bridge between US drill and UK drill its a shame his life got taken away so soon, That man was only in the limelight for 6 months and look at his Impact. RIP Pop Smoke

Also worth mentioning how Memphis hip hop was a major influence on trap, therefore a major influence on other genres that trap went on to influence. This is especially evident in the high hat patterns and triplets. This music (late 80’s but especially early 90’s) had similar motifs; extreme violence, dark aesthetics, big bass. Big up DJ Spanish fly, DJ Zirk, DJ squeaky, 3 6 mafia, and the rest of the TN crew.

Why does nobody give dj L the credit of actually creating the drill sound? It's his drum patterns that created the sound we know as drill today

Don't forget how Hardcore Continuum genres, mainly old-school Dubstep & Garage, influenced UK drill beats, mainly the wobbling basslines, syncopated/shuffling drum beats & dark aesthetic

From the UK. Honestly it really took pop smoke for me to accept drill. Now I’m exploring how that rhythmic pattern can become the focuse like House came from Disco.

DJ L belongs in this documentary, he brought the staccato/staggered/tresillo hats around, and the Lil Herb/G Herbo sound heavily influenced everybody's CURRENT drill sound more than chop's, I think.

The uk drill hihat/drum patterns share a lot of similarities to chicago footwork as well, some early chicago drill examples of these types of beats are faneto by chief keef which is clearly inspired by footwork, it’s just that the kick pattern is used in the hihats

DJ L Beats is worth mentioning, he came up at the same time as Young Chop, even if Young Chops dark keys definitely did have an influence, DJ L drum patterns is the predecessor to todays drill sound

The main thing that UK/NY drill (today's more popular stuff) takes away from Chicago Drill is the noticeable shuffle, usually with the hi hats and the snare. That shuffle was present in G Herbo and Lil Bibby's early music in the early to mid 2010s.

You are making a great job of documenting the history of music and hip-hop in particular

And It all started in Chicago!

i was just thinking about how international drill and house are when they both started as music of the people in chicago.

Drill is even inspiring the new wave of death metal.

Thank you for this! definitely a necessary video for the culture.

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There's a very important producer name missing in this story that shaped the modern sound of drill his name is DJ L

5:55 Anyone in the UK who listened to drill around this time knows how big that line is "Question...if gang pull up are you gonna back your bredrin?"

Give Chief Keef his flowers 💐

DJ L started that hit hat pattern that is used world wide

Why y’all didn’t mention Drill’s influence in Africa & The Carribean alot of these drill rappers are Carribean & African immigrants, and even in these continets Drill has become a thing like in countries like Jamaica, Ghana, & Kenya there’s a huge drill scene popping off

UK Drill needed his own episode tbh. Respect on the video though.

Drill music is the trap version of gangsta rap, put simply.

Kennington where it started is a major throwback. I remember blasting Call Me A Spartan on the way to school daily

Give DJ L his flowers. The drill sound of today is shaped by Dj L.

Crazy, the UK rap scene used to never have wide appeal in the US. Even knew some people who found it distasteful. Now everybody rapping to garage-inspired UK drill beats.

Thanks for always putting people on game with the music scene. I'm surprised UK Garage didn't get more of a mention in here. I feel like it came up at or around the same time and am curious if there are any influences from either?

Please build playlists, yall would blow up

Mentioning Ice Spice but not Kay kay is CRAZY

Love the video tho was wondering what happened to mentioning Jersey Drill sense it wasn't mentioned in the Jersey Club video I thought it would have came up here...

Saying Ice Spice bring up feminine energy to the scene is a wild and worrying statement.

So what I'm getting is that Chicago Drill is basically louder glissando to the beat drop & more wider 808s. While Uk (England) Drill takes the dramatic build up to the beat drop, but is more ordered & quicker due to Grime. NY doesn't have a distinct drill. Literally, just UK Drill in New York. STOP TRYING TO FEEL

Most people I chat with tell me that it's actually the uk drill sound (the tressilo bounce, bubbly bass and misplaced snares) that is actually drill to them

Brazillian grill its so fire !

Wish that some of the underground acts like Moh Baretta, Polo Perks, Shawny Binladen, etc. I think surf gang & evilgiane and all that's been going on in the NY underground has a huge part in some of the drill music going on in the Bronx right now.

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Put my Brudda 22Gz in this respect PBS

I've always wanted to listen to songs that sound like I'm trying to light the stove

Nice video we got here

Lil Wayne in the mid 2000s era (Carter, Dedication Mixtapes) also influenced the drill scene in Chicago...and then Wayne sonically took a little from the Atlanta rap scene through producers...so really Chicago drill is an offshoot of southern US rap.

Once the industry gets a hold of your sound, you can be replicated. Stay independent. Stay protected. Move smart. Own your music. Don't take deals unless they give you partial ownership. You can't change the game overnight... Just get you and your family portion. If you don't you know how the saga goes, do your research.

5:20 surprised this song got a mention but this is the same beat as john madden by chief keef (which is the original one)

Can’t talk about UK drill without mentioning Carns Hill & 67

10:20 nah, its both. it shapes it too. denying it, is part of the reason it carries on. what ever u think about and put energy into gets converted into its physical equivalent.

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YALL MENTIONED ROAD RAP, YALL REAL ONES FR! seriously, a lot of younger listeners don't realize the road it took for uk to get to their current drill sound. uk hiphop + grime > uk trap + road rap > uk drill

PBS always was coo people

I always wondered why UK drill was even called drill given that it sounded nothing like the drill from Chicago

Now Jersey Drill is taking over and the world is taking it and making it their own

OK, I like learning this. But it's about the LISTENERS. Like in the Sound Field Ballroom episode. What did Drill mean to the people who made it successful?Why did Drill become NECESSARY?

They chose the right song to depict drill i.e Crazy Story😏

Drill to the world

ive seen Irish Drill. interesting how shared music can help you see underlying issues like shared systemic poverty and discrimination

I think it's bullshit that some people are trying to ban this music. If you don't want violence, than address the root issues as to why the violence exists in the first place.

godfather of drill Dj L

I thought drill originated in the UK and was picked up from there in NY and other places. Weird, I was aware of Keef before all that but didn't put him on the same timeline. I'm old.

THIS IS MY SOUND 100 percent

It's the essentially neoliberal music genre. It's civil war in audio form.

dope video but they left out the part where the drill sound got updated with African, Caribbean and Asian influences. In the underground euro rap scenes a few years before the pandemic I think. Setting the scene for Pop Smoke

Wannet to watch and comment on How Public Enemy's 'Fight The Power' Became an Anthem - but "Video is not available", comments are turned off 💀

D Munna 1Hunna couldn't express himself with words if his life depended on it lol

Wtf, I'm super open to all music types and keep my ear to the street but I've not heard of most of these rappers and events. Police and politics banning music and artists from the internet and festivals like it's China or Russia?? Why was this not massive international news for the authoritarianism

Shotout to Lexus the Man Luger!

OK here's my observations. Partially based on regional histories and from observing historical/cultural elements. Let's start with the "Snare on the Three". That's coming straight out of Reggae. That's the "One Drop" anyone who's played in a Reggae rhythm section will tell you that. The high hat patterns. To me what's crazy about that is that if you watch about 10 videos of Flamenco dancing and listen to the rhythms created by the footwork you will hear the basis of the Drill hi-hat patterns. Incidentally that comes directly out of the Moor influence (lazy way of saying Moroccan) or the Gypsy (lazy way of saying Egyptian) influence. Then there's the sources of the sampling. I kinda have to give White Europeans some credit on this one since those elements seem to be coming out of European Classical music. Those piano and string arrangements are straight up European classical music (you know the crusty dudes in the white wigs we really can't get away from them). Then there's some other interesting things regarding production and regional history to throw in. Industrial music. If you look at Chicago that was the home of Wax Trax records (Ministry, Pig Face, Throbbing Gristle etc) which is related to German Avant Garde music and incidentally Jamaican Dub music which also influenced in a circular fashion British electronic music (look at Adrian Sherwoods mixes for Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails, and Ministry combined with his production work for Bim Sherman, his work with the group Tackhead goes directly back to Sugar Hill Records plus his work next to Mad Professor). Now let's look at the difference between US and UK MC's. I realize that this observation is kind of a mine field. The UK abolished slavery (at least from the mainland level) before the US. I realize that this doesn't include the Empire quite so much but it does as the Island so to speak. If you look at Brixton for example (especially at the Brixton Riots) that "Black Culture" was based more on immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa than from generations of mainland born culture based on slavery (compared to the US). I'm not saying that UK racism doesn't/didn't exist what I am saying is listen to the patterns and cadences of Jamaican "Toasters" vs UK Drill MC's vs US Drill MC's. It's really like making a stew. You have the ingredients, the tools, the cooking methods, the traditions, and how you combine them.

Chief keef!!!

good video but low key crazy you didn't have a section focused on sample drill

good wikipedia yaddi-yadda but in the end you only talked about 2 countries

I always hated drill becuase of what it represents and those annoying hight hats man...all I hear is ti ti ti ti ti ti ti but after watching this video it made me ha ve a different perspective, it doesn't mean I like it but I understand it better

"Negative connotation"? Drill is basically ALWAYS negative, unfortunately. As someone who listened to it a LOT over the years, to ignore the fact that it encourages retaliation and disrespect to dead people, as well as other clearly anti-social behaviors is just foolish. I just can't condone this culture anymore.

You guys mispronounced Russ Millions name. Russ is short for Russian, in London that is slang for a gun. Russ' name should be pronounced like "rush." 22gz's name was also mispronounced, it originates from his alternate name TuTu Blixky. Therefore it is pronounced like two separate 2s.

The skyrocketing of any genre typically has something to do with governments and states trying to squash it. Have they not learned lol

Cause they Luv Sosa

how come you didn't mention brazilian drill? it is huge down here

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Let's be fr Sosa made the drill wave with distorted 808 and off-beat open hats but when the UK adopted the drill they start the classics hihats and clap sound then every one who hop on a drill beat get a hit bc of the beat not the rapping

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10:23 it's both

Y’all left out when Nicki jumped on G Herbo and lil bibbys song that’s the drill the UK emulated all the way to NY drill today but other than that y’all on point

yall should hear Kenyan drill...Buruklyn Boyz and Wakadinali..thank me later

conquer? yeah ok.

I really like the video and it's timeline facts, but you all fail to leave out the type of lyrical content and it's definite causal effect on some of the murders. I don't know about some of the environments with other artists but in Chicago, some of the verses literally state play by play details of crimes which sets up the retaliation, police malfeasance, and perpetuates the continual cycle of violence.

i love how whenever ppl reaearch into origins of a style of american or uk music often they find out afro caribbeans had something to do with it

Waka is they Daddy

wow so dj L never got mentioned .

Other things wrong from the video is that Cardi B's first track was not at all drill. Drill music has two distinct sounds and styles, one is the Chicago style and the other is the UK style. Outside of Chicago, Bobby Smurda and Rowdy Rebel almost all other drill is of the UK style.

"Drill Rap started with the Cozarts" - BLK RMBRNDT

Next time sum1 make one if these videos and dont mention yung papi I'm putting dem in a pack

Oh God why????

I always just called it gangsta rap. Characteristics like a 'dark piano' and violent themes arent enough to distinguish it as a genre. May as well just be called trap

this video feels like it was written by a 45 year old

how can you talk about Chicago and gloss over Twista, let alone other veterans like Do Or Die, Crucial Conflict who actually represent the unique Midwestern style of rap?

UK DRILL beat pattern its both asiatic, afro, european and latin..that bop makes u wanna move..Thats why its taken over

Trap, Drill, gangsta rap...all the same lyrics at diff beat and cadence.

It all started with a Japanese lad and some savages

because it has electrolytes (I like money)

Whatever is trending.....five years from now....not so much

The WORST thing to happen to hip hop.

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