Also worth mentioning how Memphis hip hop was a major influence on trap, therefore a major influence on other genres that trap went on to influence. This is especially evident in the high hat patterns and triplets. This music (late 80’s but especially early 90’s) had similar motifs; extreme violence, dark aesthetics, big bass. Big up DJ Spanish fly, DJ Zirk, DJ squeaky, 3 6 mafia, and the rest of the TN crew.

@davruck1

Жыл бұрын

jazz also has lots of high hats like trap and is very similar

@Artersa

Жыл бұрын

@@davruck1 I’m very inexperienced with jazz, thanks for sharing :)

@kingcash48

Жыл бұрын

Somebody know sum

@keatonwiththatheatson

Жыл бұрын

And to Kurtis Mantronik, whose own envelope-pushing style of hip-hop ultimately gave birth to Southern Hip Hop. And on top of that, “Drag Rap” by The Showboys, which ultimately caught on in New Orleans, Louisiana and pioneered bounce music.

@jokin4743

Жыл бұрын

What about koopsta knicca? DJ Paul? Memphis phonk and Memphis rap sigils are like the forefathers of drill

London’s drill scene has probably had the most impact globally, it’s influenced drill music in a lot of European countries, Ghana, Australia etc

@phila5971

Жыл бұрын

probably true but America played a big part . it was created in Chicago

@KRXOVRmedia

Жыл бұрын

UK Drill production still had most influence on Drill globally. America had more influence on the "culture."

@EclecticoIconoclasta

Жыл бұрын

Also here in Latin America the recent wave of latin drill songs have adopted mainly the UK drill sound. What has stayed from the original Chicago sound is the darkness of melodies and textures even though as drill continues to evolve into more pop territory it has been even losing that since UK drill is getting more pop all the time

@vogelvogeltje

Жыл бұрын

You can’t have drill without Chicago.

@razackchrist5096

Жыл бұрын

The UK Drill sound also comes from Chicago. It is DJ L sound and it was popularized by Lil Bibby and Lil Herb.

Pop Smoke was going to be a Super-Star. His voice, style and adlibs were unique to anyone that came before him. He was also going to be the bridge between US drill and UK drill its a shame his life got taken away so soon, That man was only in the limelight for 6 months and look at his Impact. RIP Pop Smoke

@krakapoww

Жыл бұрын

abraCadabra was using a style very similar before him

@SuperVexal

Жыл бұрын

@@krakapoww He has a similar voice but they have different cadences

@nuke_love

3 ай бұрын

Y'all act like Pop was the end all for ts. Look into the majority of NY's Drill artists

Don't forget how Hardcore Continuum genres, mainly old-school Dubstep & Garage, influenced UK drill beats, mainly the wobbling basslines, syncopated/shuffling drum beats & dark aesthetic

@Artersa

Жыл бұрын

I love the term “hardcore continuum”, what a succinct way to place the multitude of genres in a neat path.

Why does nobody give dj L the credit of actually creating the drill sound? It's his drum patterns that created the sound we know as drill today

@byllsbeats6037

Жыл бұрын

he should have chosen more memorable name then 😆

@LorenzoAngeloBeatz

Жыл бұрын

Thank u

@onesyphorus

Жыл бұрын

Gangway comes to mind.

@onesyphorus

Жыл бұрын

wasnt he in a marching band before that

@zinodbeats7654

Жыл бұрын

DJ L made it for sure

From the UK. Honestly it really took pop smoke for me to accept drill. Now I’m exploring how that rhythmic pattern can become the focuse like House came from Disco.

DJ L Beats is worth mentioning, he came up at the same time as Young Chop, even if Young Chops dark keys definitely did have an influence, DJ L drum patterns is the predecessor to todays drill sound

The main thing that UK/NY drill (today's more popular stuff) takes away from Chicago Drill is the noticeable shuffle, usually with the hi hats and the snare. That shuffle was present in G Herbo and Lil Bibby's early music in the early to mid 2010s.

@razackchrist5096

Жыл бұрын

The UK Drill sound also comes from Chicago. It is DJ L sound and it was popularized by Lil Bibby and Lil Herb.

The uk drill hihat/drum patterns share a lot of similarities to chicago footwork as well, some early chicago drill examples of these types of beats are faneto by chief keef which is clearly inspired by footwork, it’s just that the kick pattern is used in the hihats

@SoundFieldPBS

Жыл бұрын

That's a great point, a Chicago footwork deep dive would be fun.

@jolomendez6338

Жыл бұрын

The kick and bbm is adopted from grime, garage which was birth from dancehall. Caribbean’s moved to England with Africans and that kick tempo flow got taken from there. In U.K. if you listen to a grime beat then listen to a U.K. drill beat u can hear the similarity.

@nazeemtrump2820

Жыл бұрын

UK drill beats got influence from DJ L and grime, like the whole tempo and bpm is from grime, the 808 slides is influenced by like dubstep and grime too. The dark piano melodies we used to hear was a DJ L think too, same with the kicks and snares. But currently whatever the uk drill beats are sound nothing like dj L tbh, but the older drill beats back in like 2015-17 sounded more like dj L .

@razackchrist5096

Жыл бұрын

The UK Drill sound also comes from Chicago. It is DJ L sound and it was popularized by Lil Bibby and Lil Herb.

@joule-trix

Жыл бұрын

@@jolomendez6338 interesting because i heard garage was hugley influenced by house music which is also from chicago

DJ L belongs in this documentary, he brought the staccato/staggered/tresillo hats around, and the Lil Herb/G Herbo sound heavily influenced everybody's CURRENT drill sound more than chop's, I think.

@marfilblaka

Жыл бұрын

amen bro

You are making a great job of documenting the history of music and hip-hop in particular

And It all started in Chicago!

Drill is even inspiring the new wave of death metal.

@meezanlmt

Жыл бұрын

Any bands?

@8eight104

Жыл бұрын

@@meezanlmt my band Corpectomy, Infantectomy, .357 Homicide, PeelingFlesh, Invirulent, Cephalotripsy, so many I can't even name them all. All of us love this kind of music in our scene.

@blor664

Жыл бұрын

​@@8eight104 that's interesting I'll check your band out bro

@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024

Жыл бұрын

I am not surprised. Rock has always been influenced by Black genres, it is one itself. It’s just racism washes out that history so it seems surprising.

@8eight104

Жыл бұрын

@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 Rock is black music. The type of death metal I play, Slam, was started by black musicians (Suffocation).

i was just thinking about how international drill and house are when they both started as music of the people in chicago.

Why y’all didn’t mention Drill’s influence in Africa & The Carribean alot of these drill rappers are Carribean & African immigrants, and even in these continets Drill has become a thing like in countries like Jamaica, Ghana, & Kenya there’s a huge drill scene popping off

@hani2558

Жыл бұрын

Stick with afrobeats

@Ekphora_

Жыл бұрын

Yes, this was lacking in their presentation of UK Drill, it has a huge part in the latest rhythms imo

@carrington2949

Жыл бұрын

@@hani2558 😂😂😂

@mufasa2009

Жыл бұрын

​@@hani2558Too late Drill even influencing Afrobeats

Give Chief Keef his flowers 💐

Drill music is the trap version of gangsta rap, put simply.

@destinixshakur

Жыл бұрын

I understand

UK Drill needed his own episode tbh. Respect on the video though.

There's a very important producer name missing in this story that shaped the modern sound of drill his name is DJ L

THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE DEPICTION, THANK YOU!!!

DJ L started that hit hat pattern that is used world wide

@Believer3_

Жыл бұрын

No 😂

Thanks for always putting people on game with the music scene. I'm surprised UK Garage didn't get more of a mention in here. I feel like it came up at or around the same time and am curious if there are any influences from either?

@Artersa

Жыл бұрын

UK garage is quite a bit older (coming up in the mid-late 90’s, itself majorly influenced by US house). UKG was especially influential to grime (which influenced Uk drill, as they mention in the video).

@ElDJReturn

Жыл бұрын

@@Artersa That's what I was looking for! Thanks!

@Meta4ce

Жыл бұрын

UK Garage was influenced by US Garage and the club Paradise Garage, everything comes back to the same place, I don't know why people from the UK keep acting like Garage/Grime are 100% original. We can even say Dancehall was heavily influenced by R&B...all of these US influenced sub genres get accents put on them and renamed...why?

@divinej802

Жыл бұрын

@@Meta4ce Thank you. I'm starting to believe they either don't know or pretend to not know.

Thank you for this! definitely a necessary video for the culture.

5:55 Anyone in the UK who listened to drill around this time knows how big that line is "Question...if gang pull up are you gonna back your bredrin?"

@AnonymousLdn

Жыл бұрын

my childhood bro

Crazy, the UK rap scene used to never have wide appeal in the US. Even knew some people who found it distasteful. Now everybody rapping to garage-inspired UK drill beats.

Give DJ L his flowers. The drill sound of today is shaped by Dj L.

Mentioning Ice Spice but not Kay kay is CRAZY

@hani2558

Жыл бұрын

Is he on the billboard???

Please build playlists, yall would blow up

Lil Wayne in the mid 2000s era (Carter, Dedication Mixtapes) also influenced the drill scene in Chicago...and then Wayne sonically took a little from the Atlanta rap scene through producers...so really Chicago drill is an offshoot of southern US rap.

Kennington where it started is a major throwback. I remember blasting Call Me A Spartan on the way to school daily

So what I'm getting is that Chicago Drill is basically louder glissando to the beat drop & more wider 808s. While Uk (England) Drill takes the dramatic build up to the beat drop, but is more ordered & quicker due to Grime. NY doesn't have a distinct drill. Literally, just UK Drill in New York. STOP TRYING TO FEEL

Wish that some of the underground acts like Moh Baretta, Polo Perks, Shawny Binladen, etc. I think surf gang & evilgiane and all that's been going on in the NY underground has a huge part in some of the drill music going on in the Bronx right now.

Once the industry gets a hold of your sound, you can be replicated. Stay independent. Stay protected. Move smart. Own your music. Don't take deals unless they give you partial ownership. You can't change the game overnight... Just get you and your family portion. If you don't you know how the saga goes, do your research.

OK, I like learning this. But it's about the LISTENERS. Like in the Sound Field Ballroom episode. What did Drill mean to the people who made it successful?Why did Drill become NECESSARY?

Most people I chat with tell me that it's actually the uk drill sound (the tressilo bounce, bubbly bass and misplaced snares) that is actually drill to them

10:20 nah, its both. it shapes it too. denying it, is part of the reason it carries on. what ever u think about and put energy into gets converted into its physical equivalent.

Can’t talk about UK drill without mentioning Carns Hill & 67

I thought drill originated in the UK and was picked up from there in NY and other places. Weird, I was aware of Keef before all that but didn't put him on the same timeline. I'm old.

@bf2853

Жыл бұрын

because the sonics are different, chicago drill sounds nothing like uk drill even though chicago came first

Brazillian grill its so fire !

Wtf, I'm super open to all music types and keep my ear to the street but I've not heard of most of these rappers and events. Police and politics banning music and artists from the internet and festivals like it's China or Russia?? Why was this not massive international news for the authoritarianism

@Antron7000

Жыл бұрын

its not new they tried in the 90s with gangsta rap, 80s with heavy metal, 70s with disco, someones always trying to ban something

@dedasalmeida9047

Жыл бұрын

@@Antron7000 yeah it's not really abnormal to see it

Love the video tho was wondering what happened to mentioning Jersey Drill sense it wasn't mentioned in the Jersey Club video I thought it would have came up here...

Now Jersey Drill is taking over and the world is taking it and making it their own

ive seen Irish Drill. interesting how shared music can help you see underlying issues like shared systemic poverty and discrimination

Put my Brudda 22Gz in this respect PBS

I've always wanted to listen to songs that sound like I'm trying to light the stove

D Munna 1Hunna couldn't express himself with words if his life depended on it lol

@thablackkat9905

Жыл бұрын

Right?

YALL MENTIONED ROAD RAP, YALL REAL ONES FR! seriously, a lot of younger listeners don't realize the road it took for uk to get to their current drill sound. uk hiphop + grime > uk trap + road rap > uk drill

I think it's bullshit that some people are trying to ban this music. If you don't want violence, than address the root issues as to why the violence exists in the first place.

@chioma916

Жыл бұрын

!!!

@smoothsavage2870

Жыл бұрын

It should be both honestly. Some people really do love that lifestyle.

@joedav67

Жыл бұрын

@@smoothsavage2870 Banning the music for “glorifying the lifestyle” is a slippery slope. All mobster movies would go too. No Godfather. Pretty much all death and black metal would be gone. Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, KMFDM, all gone. Grand Theft Auto? Uncharted? All would disappear. The world is not G rated so don’t make all media go away

@dedasalmeida9047

Жыл бұрын

Does art imitates life or life imitate art ... Kinda chicken and the egg type thing

Saying Ice Spice bring up feminine energy to the scene is a wild and worrying statement.

I always hated drill becuase of what it represents and those annoying hight hats man...all I hear is ti ti ti ti ti ti ti but after watching this video it made me ha ve a different perspective, it doesn't mean I like it but I understand it better

@thablackkat9905

Жыл бұрын

I understand you completely. If the subject matter in the drill varied it would be a great subgenre but all I hear is the same old tired storyline.

Bang bang

Nice video we got here

THIS IS MY SOUND 100 percent

OK here's my observations. Partially based on regional histories and from observing historical/cultural elements. Let's start with the "Snare on the Three". That's coming straight out of Reggae. That's the "One Drop" anyone who's played in a Reggae rhythm section will tell you that. The high hat patterns. To me what's crazy about that is that if you watch about 10 videos of Flamenco dancing and listen to the rhythms created by the footwork you will hear the basis of the Drill hi-hat patterns. Incidentally that comes directly out of the Moor influence (lazy way of saying Moroccan) or the Gypsy (lazy way of saying Egyptian) influence. Then there's the sources of the sampling. I kinda have to give White Europeans some credit on this one since those elements seem to be coming out of European Classical music. Those piano and string arrangements are straight up European classical music (you know the crusty dudes in the white wigs we really can't get away from them). Then there's some other interesting things regarding production and regional history to throw in. Industrial music. If you look at Chicago that was the home of Wax Trax records (Ministry, Pig Face, Throbbing Gristle etc) which is related to German Avant Garde music and incidentally Jamaican Dub music which also influenced in a circular fashion British electronic music (look at Adrian Sherwoods mixes for Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails, and Ministry combined with his production work for Bim Sherman, his work with the group Tackhead goes directly back to Sugar Hill Records plus his work next to Mad Professor). Now let's look at the difference between US and UK MC's. I realize that this observation is kind of a mine field. The UK abolished slavery (at least from the mainland level) before the US. I realize that this doesn't include the Empire quite so much but it does as the Island so to speak. If you look at Brixton for example (especially at the Brixton Riots) that "Black Culture" was based more on immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa than from generations of mainland born culture based on slavery (compared to the US). I'm not saying that UK racism doesn't/didn't exist what I am saying is listen to the patterns and cadences of Jamaican "Toasters" vs UK Drill MC's vs US Drill MC's. It's really like making a stew. You have the ingredients, the tools, the cooking methods, the traditions, and how you combine them.

godfather of drill Dj L

You guys mispronounced Russ Millions name. Russ is short for Russian, in London that is slang for a gun. Russ' name should be pronounced like "rush." 22gz's name was also mispronounced, it originates from his alternate name TuTu Blixky. Therefore it is pronounced like two separate 2s.

Wannet to watch and comment on How Public Enemy's 'Fight The Power' Became an Anthem - but "Video is not available", comments are turned off 💀

They chose the right song to depict drill i.e Crazy Story😏

yall should hear Kenyan drill...Buruklyn Boyz and Wakadinali..thank me later

@SoundFieldPBS

Жыл бұрын

Thanking you now!

@antwennyone

Жыл бұрын

@@SoundFieldPBS i appreciate, and love the content. Watch out for the Kenyan scene general, we're cooking out here

5:20 surprised this song got a mention but this is the same beat as john madden by chief keef (which is the original one)

It's the essentially neoliberal music genre. It's civil war in audio form.

conquer? yeah ok.

dope video but they left out the part where the drill sound got updated with African, Caribbean and Asian influences. In the underground euro rap scenes a few years before the pandemic I think. Setting the scene for Pop Smoke

PBS always was coo people

beautifullllllll

Drill to the world

"Negative connotation"? Drill is basically ALWAYS negative, unfortunately. As someone who listened to it a LOT over the years, to ignore the fact that it encourages retaliation and disrespect to dead people, as well as other clearly anti-social behaviors is just foolish. I just can't condone this culture anymore.

@B_addie

2 ай бұрын

It’s this generations “gangster rap”, there’s a handful of storytelling that gets overshadowed by a large wave of glorifying violence and hate. And similarly it has the same effect with how it portrays the groups of people it represents

good wikipedia yaddi-yadda but in the end you only talked about 2 countries

wow so dj L never got mentioned .

@destinixshakur

Жыл бұрын

Who is he?

@marfilblaka

Жыл бұрын

@@destinixshakur look him up hear for your self

@destinixshakur

Жыл бұрын

@@marfilblakabruh I did , nobody finding a DJ L it’s not a unique name I need more details please . Thank you

I really like the video and it's timeline facts, but you all fail to leave out the type of lyrical content and it's definite causal effect on some of the murders. I don't know about some of the environments with other artists but in Chicago, some of the verses literally state play by play details of crimes which sets up the retaliation, police malfeasance, and perpetuates the continual cycle of violence.

10:23 it's both

I always wondered why UK drill was even called drill given that it sounded nothing like the drill from Chicago

The skyrocketing of any genre typically has something to do with governments and states trying to squash it. Have they not learned lol

Cause they Luv Sosa

English English girl named Fiona WOIIIIIIIIII

good video but low key crazy you didn't have a section focused on sample drill

how come you didn't mention brazilian drill? it is huge down here

Literally never heard of anything mentioned in this

@BeatsWithKev

Жыл бұрын

What genres do you normally listen to?

@ABombs1

Жыл бұрын

@@BeatsWithKev music is my career so quite a lot, from classical to metal and all in between. I guess just not mainstream stuff like whatever this is, since it became easy not to

@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.

Жыл бұрын

@@ABombs1 You def don't listen to "all in between" if you haven't heard of a single artist here, especially Keef. You just think your taste eclectic.

@ABombs1

Жыл бұрын

@@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. No I don't... 'all in between' refers to Ariana, Royce da 59, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jacob Collier, Japanese House, Bon Iver, Troye Sivan. All pretty mainstream in their own areas. But my exploration of music somehow never stumbled across the term 'drill rap', even though I grew up on Dre, eminem, Snoop, Nate Dogg, etc. Honestly it just sounds like rap from rappers who aren't actually very good at rap

@incognito_.

Жыл бұрын

@@ABombs1 I suggest you listen to more sub genres of rap such as trap, drill, crunk, cloud rap etc….

Let's be fr Sosa made the drill wave with distorted 808 and off-beat open hats but when the UK adopted the drill they start the classics hihats and clap sound then every one who hop on a drill beat get a hit bc of the beat not the rapping

Shotout to Lexus the Man Luger!

Waka is they Daddy

Trap, Drill, gangsta rap...all the same lyrics at diff beat and cadence.

The WORST thing to happen to hip hop.

@divinej802

Жыл бұрын

Worst thing to happen to Chicago

Chief keef!!!

Y’all left out when Nicki jumped on G Herbo and lil bibbys song that’s the drill the UK emulated all the way to NY drill today but other than that y’all on point

😢😢😢😢😢💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥💅💅

Paris too…

how can you talk about Chicago and gloss over Twista, let alone other veterans like Do Or Die, Crucial Conflict who actually represent the unique Midwestern style of rap?

@davruck1

Жыл бұрын

im from cleveland and havent heard crucial conflict mentioned in a long while

Other things wrong from the video is that Cardi B's first track was not at all drill. Drill music has two distinct sounds and styles, one is the Chicago style and the other is the UK style. Outside of Chicago, Bobby Smurda and Rowdy Rebel almost all other drill is of the UK style.

"Drill Rap started with the Cozarts" - BLK RMBRNDT

I always just called it gangsta rap. Characteristics like a 'dark piano' and violent themes arent enough to distinguish it as a genre. May as well just be called trap

@davruck1

Жыл бұрын

you must be white. drill has a different beat than trap

i love how whenever ppl reaearch into origins of a style of american or uk music often they find out afro caribbeans had something to do with it

@fire418

Жыл бұрын

Having something to do with it doesn't mean create.

@onesyphorus

Жыл бұрын

you really missed my point didn't you lol @@fire418

Because whatever black ppl are doingx everybody else copies. This is how it has always been

taladriando manin

Dj Paul and J. Plus Manny Fresh, Lex, Dj Toomp, Shawty Redd, Beats by da pound, etc. It's all recycled.

Oh God why????

I have never heard of drill rap, because I'm old It'll happen to you too

@m-tetsuo

Жыл бұрын

I'd wish I never heard of it

@Mr.Beauregarde

Жыл бұрын

@@m-tetsuo there's much to learn from even that which we find distasteful. Especially a thing as culturally significant as music.

@preposteroussvideos

Жыл бұрын

OK boomer

@Mr.Beauregarde

Жыл бұрын

@@preposteroussvideos hush, big kids are talking

It all started with a Japanese lad and some savages

Becuase you don't have to rap on beat, so all the poorer areas tend to latch in cause they can't count a 4/4, lol.

Whatever is trending.....five years from now....not so much