Mayor Eric Adams’ rapper son is at odds with his dad over drill rap, saying in a recent interview it was “outrageous” for Hizzoner to call for a ban on the violence-glorifying genre. Speaking to ...

After a nearly 15-year run, it might be time to get some R.I.P. t-shirts printed up for drill music. And the arrest of Lil Durk, inarguably one of the biggest artists in the subgenre, might be the ...

Darice Gardner, aka Paper$, performs at 'How Dope Are You?' (Sam Searles/WHYY) Working on a solution to gun violence and want to share it? Get in touch with gun violence prevention reporters Sammy ...

In the last couple of years, drill music has had a stage along with some of the biggest acts in Hip-Hop. On Donda in 2021, “Off The Grid,” was arguably one of the best songs on the album and it ...

Shortly after the deaths of two aspiring rappers earlier this year, New York City mayor Eric Adams appeared to take a hard line against drill rap, stressing in a February speech that social-media ...

Hip-hop artist Chris Upshaw Jr., who performs under the moniker Dopeboy Trouble, hails from Columbus, Georgia. The rap artist first began making music in 2016 after being released from a youth ...

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In February, Mayor Adams blamed drill music for some violent crime and called for the removal of drill videos from social media. Then he backtracked, met with some drill rappers, and said he’d work ...

When the news broke in February that 18-year-old Jayquan McKenley, who recorded under the name Chii Wvttz, had been murdered in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it sent ripples through a ...

Liberia’s fast-rising Afropop and Drill sensation, Lil More, has officially released the much-anticipated music video for his ...