“It’s been a lot of talk about drill rap, drill music in New York City, connecting violence with the culture, and I just wanted to create a conversation with the mayor,” Maino said in the clip. "We're ...

Yungeen Ace became the focus of courtroom testimony as detectives explained how his rap videos and online presence are used to track gang activity and criminal ties.

'Drill Rap:' The rise of hip hop’s most violent subgenre "Impact x Nightline" takes a deep dive into a new, gritty form of hip hop that aims to capture the raw reality of the streets, but which has ...

When Fredo Santana died in early 2018, the hip hop community reacted with an outpouring of tributes. However, for many consumers of mainstream rap, this dramatic show of support for the Chicago rapper ...

The premise of the viral song “Teach Me How to Drill” is simple: Brooklyn rapper Fivio Foreign is a teacher who takes his nerdy, white student—Lil Mabu—on a “field trip” to the hood, as if they were ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville’s drill rap scene is not what it was five or six years ago. And that’s a good thing. Drill music, a subgenre of hip-hop, originated in Chicago in the early 2010s ...

A 17-year-old gang banger from the Bronx who’s been arrested 20 times is the poster child for all that is wrong with the ...

Federal prosecutors are pushing to use Bronx drill rapper Kay Flock’s lyrics as evidence, arguing his music serves as a direct confession to violent crimes. Kay Flock could spend the rest of his life ...

One of Jacksonville’s most prolific drill rappers, Hakeem Robinson, 26, known as “Ksoo,” will be standing trial for murder. He and Leroy Whitaker Jr., 24, known as “ATK Scotty” are accused of killing ...