In 2024, Bronx rapper Cash Cobain released “Dunk Contest” on streaming platforms. Within the next few months, sexy drill found its breakout moment, and one of the biggest artists in Hip Hop, J. Cole, ...

To make it in music, you need dedication and unending self-belief. This is even more true in modern hip-hop, with the genre's globalization and the intense competition making it harder to stand out.

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 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, ...

A fusion of New York drill and Jersey club has been bubbling in the tri-state area over the last few months to become the dominating sound of the summer. New York drill has maintained its status as ...

Kenzo B has shared her thoughts regarding the New York drill wave, and according to her, the sound has made a lot of people that can't rap actually "lit." During Complex's Volume NY women rapper ...

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 ...

City of Win is a series curated by Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney and written by Alejandro Hernandez that uses prose and photography to create portraits of Chicago musicians and cultural innovators working ...

A couple of years ago, Brooklyn drill was a local YouTube phenomenon -- young people in a few different neighborhoods taking aesthetic cues from Chicago and the UK, airing out inter-neighborhood beefs ...

Does Lil Durk make drill music? On the surface, this seems like the stupidest question in the world. Lil Durk is drill music. When Chicago drill first started to make national waves, Durk was there.