Last year, the Bronx rapper emerged from the drill scene with a pop-friendly sound, and attracted the attention of Drake. Now she’s releasing her first EP. By Jon Caramanica On a cold, damp afternoon ...

When she emerged with her deadpan, sure-shot flow on 2022’s “Munch (Feelin’ U),” Ice Spice planted her flag as drill music’s next torchbear e r. A subgenre predicated on hard-nosed beats, sugary ...

In late January, up-and-coming rapper Nas Blixky was shot in Brooklyn’s Prospect Lefferts Garden neighborhood. Days later, the New York Daily News ran a story in which his family spoke on his behalf, ...

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 ...

New York’s Eric Adams, the avowedly vegan mayor who has been caught eating fish, is calling on social-media companies to curb “alarming” drill rap videos, following the violent deaths of two young ...

Brooklyn's up-and-coming star, Smoove'L is officially off the market. After building a large following in 2019, Complex confirms that the New York rapper has signed a joint record deal with Run Music ...

“CENSORED” BEGINS like most pieces of drill music, a genre of rap. Dressed in black puffer jackets and balaclavas, members of the group “Zone 2”, who come from Peckham in south London, spit lines ...

Malcolm Graham, from Bootle in Merseyside, was jailed in 2016 and launched a drill rap career from his prison cell - and is ...

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Drill music, a form of hip hop known for its gritty lyrics, has been criticised by police for encouraging gang violence, but a new analysis shows that songs with positive lyrics are more popular on ...

In a move to curb violence in the U.K., British police have asked YouTube to remove between 50 and 60 music videos and more than half have already been removed from the platform. The move comes as ...