12/13/2023 0 Comments Who made drill rap popular![]() Are we banning grime, too, then? What about all rap then, from G-funk to Trap? It’s a slippery slope that does little but fuck over existing and prospective artists, all the while giving illusion of doing something about it. What constitutes as drill music? Well it’s a specific kind of beat, but if you ban that, then what do they do, move to another frequency and keep producing? It’s a bit ridiculous. I get that it does promote violence to a certain degree, and I often feel concerned when I hear 12 year olds listening to it in parks, but at the end of the day banning it won’t help. I actually think there are some super talented drill rappers out there, like SL, and for the most part it helps young men absorbed in gang-related activity to move up and out of that lifestyle. This isn’t even going into the fact that the particular type of violent crime drill rappers mention tends to be knife related, making it incredibly easy for young kids to imitate, there are plenty of examples of young teens stabbing and killing each other over “beef” and “scoreboards” with the whole “scoreboard” thing in particular becoming mainstream direct result of the rise of drill music. There is very little on the struggles of being working class in London and a lot more bragging about how stabbing someone is the first and best response to your issues. Drill is 95%+ “I chinged up person, I wetted up person, person got put in a spliff” etc. But drill is unique in its constant glorification of its stabbings and shootings more than any other genre of rap. I’d be inclined to disagree with your comparison of drill to grime and garage.ĭrill music shares similarities with a lot of other rap/“urban” music in the sense that it covers law breaking and violence. If you listen to a lot of early successful grime artists, a lot of their music was relatively violent lyrically - but they got away from that through music. As you say, music is an avenue for a lot of these kids to find a way out of that particular lifestyle. Those gangs, violence, etc isn't going to disappear just because they can't rap about it anymore, and soon enough a new genre will pop up to replace it and the whole thing repeats again. ![]() All you're doing by targeting the music is shoving the realities of the situation for certain areas under the rug so it doesn't scare you anymore. ![]() Music is not dangerous, it's a reflection of society. The same would also happen to road rap which emerged in the late 2000s, the British precursor to UK drill alongside it's Chicagoan forebear.Īnd now it's Drill's turn. Grime would end up falling off in the mid-late 2000s, partly because of this. In the early-mid 2000s, police shut down grime raves and even banned certain songs from being used. Shortly thereafter, garage fell off, partly because of this. ![]() In the early 2000s, police started shutting down garage raves due to violence. ![]()
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