While drill music started in Chicago and really began to take off as a subgenre in 2012, thanks to Chief Keef getting national looks, the drum and hi-hat-heavy sound has been reworked across the globe. U.K. drill shares some creative aspects with grime, borrowing a lot of the flows, but using local slang and faster-paced beats than the genre’s Midwestern origins. Brooklyn drill and, later, Bronx drill are like a blend of both original drill from Chi-Town and U.K. drill by emulating (and outright using) their peers across the pond’s production and telling the goings-on of the street in a very specific way. Outside of all the dissing and airing of
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