The rise of drill: the most violent rap shoots high

The word

, in English, has two meanings:

.

But if we go down to criminal slang - at least in Chicago, at the beginning of the last decade - it also means

, so

was a perfect word to name a new style of rap focused on the hyper-realistic representation of violence.

In US hip hop, style names are often highly descriptive:

refers to the crook and pimp,

is specific to drug dealing, so drill served well to signal the obsession with guns. In fact, pioneer

was sentenced to 60 days house arrest in 2011 for shooting in a park. Was 16 years old.

The

is not a new genre, its history has been going on for more than a decade, but it has not been until recently that it has made the global leap. Today, if we ask a teenager what kind of music they are attracted to -and it doesn't matter if they live in New York, Paris or Kinshasa-, it is quite possible that they will tell us that they listen to

.

. It is not that the

has killed the trap -they are two evolutions of the same thing-, but in 2022 the relay is already fully consummated.

The

was born in Chicago as a cold version of the

that was made in the south of the USA. In

there was a certain sonic exuberance, a quest for color - autotuned psychedelic vocals , snapping

drums, glittery synths - but in Chicago the style sounded

. The rapping was monotonous, and the beats a minimalist buzz: it never came out of the

, and might have remained an eccentricity if it hadn't jumped to London.

In the UK, the

emphasized its subversive image and radicalized the sound.

The lyrics were 90%

, and the rappers appeared in the videos forming gangs, hiding their faces with masks and balaclavas, protecting their identity from the police and rival gangs.

The level of inaccuracy reached such an extreme that many videos were deleted from YouTube, one could only go to watch them on porn websites.

Little by little, lone wolves like Tankz or Loski, or hordes like C1, were maturing a style that was as incorrect in the eyes of prevailing morality as it was attractive for a youth without a future. It is no coincidence that

: far from radio, television and the general media, its diffusion is limited to social networks and

channels , it is nihilistic music to consume in seclusion The English critic Kit Mackintosh, who has studied its evolution in the book

(2021), suggests the idea that it is the antithesis of feeling good: the emotion it transmits is that of not feeling anything.

Following the rise of London drill, the sound has begun to be imitated around the world.

It first went to New York -with the late Pop Smoke as a star-, and it is currently a global network with thriving scenes in France, Italy and an active nucleus also in Spain, where names like

, Beny Jr or Aiman ​​Jr have started the plan replacement of the previous trap generation, a reflection of the

.

The global jump of

is being completed with its

: in countries like Kenya or Ghana it has established itself as an attractive sound, easy to imitate, ideal for a hopeless youth.

The

, so libertarian and materialistic, no longer fits well with this time.

The

, which is pure anhedonia, yes.

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