Skengdo x AM are now banned from performing any of their music, unless they are willing to go to prison.

From Ivorian Doll to Miss Lafamilia, these female UK drill rappers are dominating on their own terms. September 09. 2025 Google's YouTube has removed over 100 U.K. Drill rap videos from its platform ...

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 ...

Nearly two months after the removal of close to 30 U.K. drill rap videos from YouTube, streaming pornography site PornHub is now hosting a number of videos from groups such as 1011 and Block 6.

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 ...

Is Drill Music Getting A Bad Rap? That is the million dollar question as the music genre is plagued by controversy. In the last few years, we have seen the dramatic rise of Drill Rap music. The rap ...

Kacey Boothe was killed outside a party in 2022Credit: Central News He led a gang of four who shot dead gang rival Kacey Boothe at a baby’s birthday party in 2022 in East London. They were all ...

When Angel Reyes helped a friend record his first rap song using a microphone in a cardboard Timberland shoebox, he was just having fun. “We just were in here playing beats,” he recalled. “Like, it ...

British law enforcement asked YouTube in May to remove 30 videos from U.K. artists making drill, a stark sub-genre of hip-hop imported from Chicago and transformed for the streets of South London.

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 ...

I’m sitting in the basement of a low-rise corner building in Bushwick with 23-year-old rapper/producer Cash Cobain, and it’s finally time to throw on the Spice Girls. The basement is a converted ...