Roadmanbarty's Top 20 Drills

S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
mccing's strong on most of my picks. there were lots of tracks where i loved the instrumental, but weak mccing meant i didn't pick it.


 
S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
8) Moscow17- Smoke and Dingers


Drums like a silver multi-tool opened out resembling an 8-armed Indian goddess.

Assembling a rifle. Clicked and cocked.
 
S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
9) C1- Slums


Crisp early morning air. Wet streets. The hiss of tires driving over rained-on roads.

Those days where the sky is the same shade of grey as the drab tower blocks they backdrop.
 
S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
10) AD- AD Anywhere


The pharaoh’s guard. Fierce and ferocious. Bred warriors. Regally lethal. Bronze skin and golden armour under hushed temple torchlight.
 
S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
11) CB- Take That Risk


A dusty old music box found in an attic. It has a figure of a dancer on it, her pale porcelain face emotionless and frozen as she spins round and round and round.
 
S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
Corpsey said:
Interesting. Maybe Barry can cover the beats and Luka the lyrics.

I noticed listening to some of that Brooklyn drill that they calls guns "poles" and that opens up a seam of symbolic shanking that the Brits with their "spears" don't enjoy (but they shake the spear like William so it's 1-0 to the UK).

All the ppl commenting under the videos seem to be obsessed with the rappers themselves.
Click to expand...

what do you mean by cover the lyrics?

the call them poles in the uk as well.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Punked.

I suppose I would say that drill isn't an instrumental genre, as great as the instrumentals can be, and I'd consider writing about it without writing about the MCs only a partial picture.

I'm sure you'd have interesting things to say about the MCs too but like i said just do your thing.
 
S

sadmanbarty

Well-known member
Call me a Spartan- I’ve compaed it to ‘protect your neck’ before insofar as it presents us with a whole new cast of characters all with distinctive, characterful (by drill standards) vocal delivery; Blanco’s smokey vocals, zico’s baritone, miz boisterously shooting off like firework rocket. Its infinitely quotable; “need id if you’re not from ends”, “shakes from the spear like William” etc. the “300, 294 for the 6 that’s locked in pen” is an example of drill’s numerical preoccupation which runs through the gang names (410, 67), atist names (c1, h1, r6) as well as the lyrics. It reflects a bleakly reduced view of human life; the inversion of patrick mcgoohan's “I’m not a number, I’m a free man”. This internalisation of the disposability of their own lives in gang warefare.


Karma- most drill mccing is based on what I’d call ‘carni flow’; flows that use the same rhythms as soca/uk funky drums. Russ and taze stick most rigidly to this kind of flow and it’s what gives them that real bounciness and buoyancy. The “lewisham… free my bros out the institution” stretch is great. Also oboy’s “eugh eugh man’s face, eugh eugh man’s chest" always makes me laugh.



Wait- It was zone 2’s no hook that luke used to illustrate his point about the mono-sylabic centrism of uk drill and it's apparent in this as well. “dip urr Skid skurrr” is a good example of drill being drawn towards mary poppins-esque onomatopoeia and nonsense words in order to attain phonetic buoyancy.



Scoreboard- “how do I beef these rapists” is so childish. “holes in pricks like crumpets” is an example of reynolds’ favorite thing when uk ‘urban’ artists use these very quaint englishisms; he always talks about giggs rapping about parsnips. "custard creams" is a recurring reference in drill for example.



i'll do the more aother time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top