5/2/2023 0 Comments Drill music“Chicago already has a rich history of many different genres that tend to get overshadowed or become a city novelty. Ric Wilson performing at SXSW 2019 Courtesy of Getty Imagesįor the Grammy award-winning producer/singer/songwriter Peter Cottontale, it’s important that Chicago’s musical output is highlighted in its entirety. In the following year, Southside-native Ric Wilson and Grammy-nominated producer Terrace Martin’s collaborative EP They Call Me Disco (2020) offered a fresh take on funk and soul with lofty production that proves the Second City’s music can blossom from both joy and pain. Jamila’s 2019 release Legacy! Legacy! is poetry on wax, with each song serving as a dedication to Black luminaries like Eartha Kitt, Miles Davis and Jean-Micael Basquiat. Influenced by everything from Kanye’s effervescent creative spirit to the city’s soul music heritage, these artists colored outside the lines, framing a more complete picture of the eclectic and enduring nature of Black Chicago.Ĭoming from pockets across - and in some cases, just outside - the city, singers like Jamila Woods and Ravyn Lenae are shouldering the weight of Chicago’s rich tradition in R&B, gospel and jazz through arresting vocal arrangements, thought provoking lyrics, and the backing of rapturous choirs. We suggest ideas for new work that can help build a much-needed evidence base around the problem.All eyes were on Chicago and that newfound limelight set the stage for an adjacent wave of artists (some of whom are featured on Billboard’s new Chicago Emerging R&B/Hip-hop Artist chart) who rose to mainstream notoriety in the wake of drill’s early prominence. We provide new empirical insights suggesting that: i) drill music lyrics have not become more negative over time if anything they have become more positive ii) individual drill artists have similar sentiment trajectories to other artists in the drill genre, and iii) there is no meaningful relationship between drill music and real-life violence when compared to three kinds of police-recorded violent crime data in London. Empirically, we revisit the question of whether there is evidence to support the conjecture that drill music and gang violence are linked. We suggest ideas for new work that can help build a much-needed evidence base around the problem.ĪB - The current policy of removing drill music videos from social media platforms such as YouTube remains controversial because it risks conflating the co-occurrence of drill rap and violence with a causal chain of the two. ![]() ![]() N2 - The current policy of removing drill music videos from social media platforms such as YouTube remains controversial because it risks conflating the co-occurrence of drill rap and violence with a causal chain of the two. T2 - Drill rap and violent crime in London
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