![]() ![]() New York City has a burgeoning scene on its hands and its longevity lies in the hands of the artists keeping it alive.Ĭheck out the artists below and catch up on some of their tracks to add to your playlists. These are the 10 drill rappers to listen to right now. Lola Brooke and Connie Diiamond, from BK and the X, respectively, are rapping circles around anyone they need to. The ladies are taking their rightful spot within drill as well. The Bronx's Sha Ek also has some buzz in his corner. ![]() Eli Fross is Winners Circle's youngest in charge. Brooklyn's 26ar, who just released the new project Flyest Oota, was a recent participant in XXL's The Break. There are plenty of acts from the city who are making noise. Kay Flock's legal troubles didn't end drill in the Bronx or Brooklyn, but it was still a shot to the genre's hold over the city that never sleeps. Things took a left turn at the worst possible time. He was arrested for first-degree murder last December. His popularity led to him amassing more than 1.2 million followers on his personal Instagram account. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically to the. Rapper and hip-hop recording artist who is known for singles such as 'Without You,' 'Dead Opps,' and '40s N 9s.' His music video for the latter has gained over 10 million views on YouTube. Kay Flock was riding high off all the momentum he was building (and he was by far the biggest Bronx drill rapper), but then it all slowed a bit due to his legal issues. Drill is a subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. The video for the song is just under a year old, but has 32 million views. His 2021 single, "Is Ya Ready," was visceral and loomed large, showing a pretty new rapper mixing the near war cry nature of drill with stark threats and jump-through-the-screen energy. The energy-packed young Bronx rapper has been making a name for himself over the last year, one snarling verse at a time. XXL sheds light on more of the new names coming up nowadays, with all except Chicago's PGF Nuk originating from the New York area.Īny conversation about drill's recent explosion amongst NYC youth is incomplete without naming Kay Flock. The Big Apple's newer acts have included artists like the late Pop Smoke, Fivio Foreign, Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow of Winners Circle experiencing solid success as their music continues to get recognition. Outside all the dissing and airing of real-life beefs, drill has taken over in New York City. by emulating (and outright using) their peers across the pond's production and telling the goings-on of the street in a very specific way. Drill from Brooklyn and, later, the Bronx is like a blend of both original sounds of the subgenre ffrom Chi-Town and U.K. drill shares some creative aspects with grime, borrowing a lot of the flows, but using local slang and faster-paced beats than the genre's Midwestern origins. While drill music started in Chicago and really began to take off as a subgenre in 2012, thanks to Chief Keef getting national looks, the drum and hi-hat-heavy sound has been reworked across the globe. ![]()
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