Brooklyn Drill
Anchor moment: 22Gz releases 'Suburban' — Brooklyn drill begins
Musical signatures
UK-drill-derived production (often supplied by London producers like 808Melo and AXL Beats) — sliding 808 basslines, off-kilter syncopated hi-hat patterns, dark minor-key keys — paired with deeper-voiced, grittier New York vocal delivery and Brooklyn-specific crew and neighborhood references.
Pioneers
- pop-smoke
- sheff-g
- fivio-foreign
- 808melo
- axl-beats
- smoove-l
Associated scenes
- brooklyn-drill-scene
Moments in this sub-genre 2
Notes
Sheff G's 'No Suburban' (2017) is widely cited as the founding Brooklyn-drill record; Pop Smoke's 'Welcome to the Party' (2019) was the commercial breakthrough.
Citations 2
- B
- B