By Jonathon Winkler
Like a bad cavity, Drill is drilling the shit out of the tooth decaying hip hop scene. With tracks coming from young talent like Lil Bibby and Lil Herb (new release just last month), maybe it is a sign of the time that hip hop is making a drastic swerve away from the Mickey Mouse hip hop club that is currently destroying everything that was once dangerous and anti-authoritative. With government backed artists like Jay-Z, everything was looking rather docile and lacking bite (you’re not supposed to be part of the system, you’re supposed to fight the system!? Duh!! ) Maybe Drill is a sign that these over the hill hip hop artists need to take a back seat and let some fresh talent with youthful anger, guns, drugs, street knowledge, and aggression take the wheel. Better yet, these young punks need to push these old hip hop fucks out of the car altogether. Time the youth reclaim what is rightfully theirs.
This new genre, Drill, emerging from “Chiraq” (Chicago) in the last few years, is something to be on the lookout for as rescuers of the hip-hop scene. From the looks of it, Drill is still in its infancy; garnishing a few thousand listens here and there on youtube.com. Albums with amazing titles like, “Free Crack” by Lil Bibby and “Welcome to Fazoland” by Lil Herb, illustrate a possible renaissance of that dirty ghetto gangster music we all loved in our youth. After hearing musicians that are boring us to death in this culture of softness; maybe Drill is just what we need as a backlash against this. It is about time we had some tracks about the streets, misogyny, gun violence, hatred towards authority (especially police), and drugs. That is what America is all about because it’s fun and youthful to offend the easily offendable and push some boundaries.
Drill is showing the roughness of the streets of Chicago’s ghettos. Enough of the R&B, rap and bullshit, it’s time hip hop stopped with the political correctness/ conscious hip-hop garbage and got back on the band wagon of being dirty, ghetto, truthful, youthful, rude, and showing a middle finger to the overarching boring milieu that permeates everything. Most of all, making the genre fun again! In comparison, it is the same way as how NWA used to make cops shutter back in the day; Drill is a sign of a new exciting movement and movements that it will spark. Things seemed a bit boring in the music industry now; Drill might just shake it up a bit. We can only pray and hope this new genre will take off in new directions and spark some new off-shoot genres that are just as rewarding. In this author’s humble opinion, it’s some of the best and original stuff to come out of any music scene in the last few years.
Solid track here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg9Xt5yzeRs
Here is some background information on the music scene starting out of Chicago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_%28music_genre%29
