Examine it. The culture. the compost. South London archeology.
south london was never racially intergrated in the same way the east was.
the soundsystems didn't interact and fuse with white culture because the whites in lewisham and southwark were millwall nf supporters.
grime emerged from a multi-culturalism. garage and techstep are in its dna. the hardcore continuum is and by extension whiteness is too.
road rap didn't have that whiteness. it was just rap and dancehall.
rap became more overtly influential than jamaican music (when compared to the soundsytem heyday of the 70's and 80's) because the demography was increasingly african.
however it naturally reached a point where london wanted its own sound. it didn't just want to be copying us rap and using daseca/notnice riddims.
the classic uk move is to take something american and introduce jamaican elements and nuum elements into it so as to render it british. that's where the stuff i document on my list comes in. it takes the rap template but uses dancehall riddims and more grime/nuum ferocity.
drill then emerges once anything non-trap really fades altogether from prominent american hip hop by the mid-2010's. uk drill was the same template as before. take trap drums, but add jamaican influence (tresillo) and nuum influence (the rhythms and the bassline bass sounds).
