The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Drill style · 2010–

Brooklyn drill keeps Chicago drill’s street-rap job — neighborhood voice, short chant tracks, YouTube tapes — and hangs it on a UK 808.

Influence
UK drill style · 2012–

Brooklyn drill takes UK drill’s sliding 808 and broken hats and recodes the voice as New York street rap.

Influence

Brooklyn drill

style · 2018–

Also called NY drill

Kind of Drill

Late-2010s New York street rap that takes UK drill’s sliding 808 and broken hats and recodes the voice as Brooklyn (Pop Smoke, 808Melo). It hears UK drill for the beat dialect and Drill for the Chicago street-rap job. Sample drill leftover as a later NY tag on this node. Bronx drill leftover as a later NY tag on this node. Empty extra Given is historically checked.

Listen

  1. Welcome to the Party Pop Smoke (2019) YouTube · Spotify
  2. Dior Pop Smoke (2019) YouTube · Spotify
  3. Gatti JackBoys, Pop Smoke, Travis Scott (2019) YouTube · Spotify
  4. Shake It Kay Flock (2021) YouTube · Spotify
  5. Manny Fivio Foreign (2021) YouTube

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Drill → Brooklyn drill

form and structurefunction and contextmelodystrength: mediumscholarly consensus2018–2020recordingoral

Mechanism

Brooklyn drill keeps Chicago drill’s street-rap job — neighborhood voice, short chant tracks, YouTube tapes — and hangs it on a UK 808. Strength medium. uk drill brooklyn drill is the beat hop; this edge is the Chicago-named job. Brooklyn leftover as a copy is now this node.

Evidence

Pop Smoke and Brooklyn tapes billed as drill against Chief Keef’s Chicago job; Starr on regional drill copies.

Debate

Whether New York only heard London. The beat is UK; the named street-rap job and the word drill are Chicago’s.

Mediators

artist: Pop Smoke

UK drill → Brooklyn drill

meter and groovetimbre and productionperformance practicestrength: highwell documented2018–2020recordingoral

Mechanism

Brooklyn drill takes UK drill’s sliding 808 and broken hats and recodes the voice as New York street rap. Strength high. drill brooklyn drill is the Chicago street-rap job hop; this edge is the London beat dialect. Sample drill leftover as a later NY tag.

Evidence

808Melo beats under Pop Smoke; 2018–20 Brooklyn tapes; Starr and Grove on the UK-to-NY transfer.

Debate

Whether Brooklyn drill is already UK drill with an American accent. The South London cadence remains UK drill’s; the named Brooklyn school is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: 808Melo; artist: Pop Smoke