These are songs that not only accentuate the principles of their genre very well, but provide the listener with something unique and different from the general rap, mainstream rap song. In honor of my fascination with drill music, and, in part, due to the repeated delay of my blog on Chicago rapper Lil Durk (due out in late June or early July), I've decided to compile a list of ten songs that I personally find the quintessential drill anthems. ![]() This, in turn, aptly reflects Chicago's status as "the murder capital of America in 2012." Drill is also defined by heavy uses of horns and snare drums in its instrumentation, in addition to frequent references to acts including, but not limited to, "trapping" (solicitation of drugs, particularly on the street), having sex, "getting top" (a fellatio), "sipping lean" (a famous concoction of codeine cough syrup Sprite), and exhibiting the traits of "a savage" (needs no explanation). ![]() For the past two years, I have been steadily exploring the culture and genre of Chicago rap, infamously known as "drill." While definitions vary, the cleanest one I could cherrypick comes from Urban Dictionary, stating that drill music is characterized by "more violent and aggressive" lyrical content than coastal rap.
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