The music industry is mourning the loss of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke, who was killed in a home invasion in Beverly Hills. Pop Smoke was a rising new star in the industry and was likely going to be one ...

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In 2024, Bronx rapper Cash Cobain released “Dunk Contest” on streaming platforms. Within the next few months, sexy drill found its breakout moment, and one of the biggest artists in Hip Hop, J. Cole, ...

Is Drill Music Getting A Bad Rap? That is the million dollar question as the music genre is plagued by controversy. In the last few years, we have seen the dramatic rise of Drill Rap music. The rap ...

Drill music, the hardcore gangsta rap that has found regional strains in several different places including New York City, was condemned by the city's Mayor Eric Adams on Friday at a press conference.

UK Drill has taken some major hits. Check out the government’s efforts to stop the music they say is causing violence. I have noticed that the New York scene has pretty much taken over Drill Music.

Jordan Coleman, a rapper and the son of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, recently explained that it’s impossible to ban a whole genre of music. Mayor Adams proposed a social media ban on drill music in ...

Although drill music has become a popular subgenre of hip-hop, its success has brought huge amounts of controversy. This was exemplified by a Thursday report that at least three drill music rappers ...

Drill music is one of the hottest sub-genres in the rap industry and is a global phenomenon. But veteran hip-hop producer Pete Rock recently called drill music "doo-doo" and said that it disrupts the ...

"No matter what is portrayed by the media, there are always two angles, the positive and the negative. Of late there there have been a large number of negative articles and opinions centred around ...

He’s only been making music for seven months, but SK-47 is on the cusp of something big. The masked musician keeps his identity anonymous, like many artists in the U.K. drill world, to protect his ...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams met with drill rap artists Tuesday night after criticizing the music genre for contributing to the rising violence in the city. But as CBS2's Aundrea Cline-Thomas explains ...