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[Pandiculate]

Going Global: Inside Ghana’s Burgeoning Drill Scene

Discover the top artists driving Africa's drill music sce...

www.complex.com

 

[slackk]

Gengetone in Kenya too

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Corpsey]

I do like Dutchavelli but it's a bit too polished in a way, drill was better when it didn't sound so professional.

 

[slackk]

British music needs the frayed edges to work

 

[Corpsey]

These are big-

Interesting going back to 2008 the beats sounded like Jeezy/Gucci beats.

I mean it's obvious really the UK scene generally follows the US's lead. (While innovating in its own way, before anyone jumps on my neck.)

 

[DannyL]

Like that Segregation track, that's pretty mad. Not that I know drill well, but I've not heard anything like that before. Life on the inside realness. What's a TEC? AFC is "Accommodation Fabric Checks" so Google tells me. Think with him, it's all about the voice, much like Giggs.

 

[Corpsey]

Speaking of, there's a new Giggs mixtape

 

[Corpsey]

😂

 

[slackk]

Interesting going back to 2008 the beats sounded like Jeezy/Gucci beats.

I mean it's obvious really the UK scene generally follows the US's lead. (While innovating in its own way, before anyone jumps on my neck.)

Loads of those tapes then had recycled US beats in, some of the early PDC ones are basically all US.

Probably what helped sn1/giggs step up above a lot of them is that they had the strongest London producers at the time- boom productions, bayoz etc- and that helped a lot of it stand out. I know the biggest Giggs tune was a dre beat but generally they really did stand out.

It was more with the likes of Carns Hill- Youngs Teflon tapes etc- that it became a lot more equal the standards rose but that's a year or two down the line.

Much more rigid formula these days tho

Bit boring at the moment.

 

[Pandiculate]

 

[luka]

Pop Smoke had to die so Abra could take his blueprint and make it better. Really strange occult back and forth of influence and spirit power.

 

[catalog]

pop smoke festures in that rip germain video essay about the disposability of black male life. he also talks about the harlem spartans guy who got killed and bis as well.

 

[luka]

Artforum bait

 

[catalog]

yeah but he's also from that world so there's something more real behind it than, say, a white middle class artist or journalist or whatever. i watched it again last night, great piece.

 

[Pandiculate]

I can't get over Unkown T's dance moves, makes me so uncomfortable. It's like he's not in control of his limbs.

 

[luka]

Pop Smoke had to die so Abra could take his blueprint and make it better. Really strange occult back and forth of influence and spirit power.

 

[yyaldrin]

we went from high pitched autotuned vocals from artists like future and young thug to deep bassy voices from pop smoke, dutchavelli and abra cadabra.

 

[luka]

Real men are disgusted by high pitch girly voices we like Shabba and Buju.

 

[yyaldrin]

definitely! we just collectively pretended to like them for the last few years to see who is one of da real mens and who is not.