As Ice Spice has grown into one of the biggest breakout stars of 2023, the rise has been simultaneous for her go-to co-writer and producer, RIOTUSA. After meeting as students at SUNY Purchase, the two ...

After Pop Smoke's tragic death in 2020, many wondered what would become of New York drill, and many naysayers claimed it died with him. Over the next year, several booming voices would knock at that ...

Last year, the Bronx rapper emerged from the drill scene with a pop-friendly sound, and attracted the attention of Drake. Now she’s releasing her first EP. By Jon Caramanica On a cold, damp afternoon ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — * The above video was originally published April 12 when a Duval County judge sentenced a Jacksonville drill rapper to 10 years in prison. It originated in Chicago’s South Side in ...

UK Drill has taken some major hits. Check out the government’s efforts to stop the music they say is causing violence. I have noticed that the New York scene has pretty much taken over Drill Music.

When the news broke in February that 18-year-old Jayquan McKenley, who recorded under the name Chii Wvttz, had been murdered in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it sent ripples through a ...