Brooklyn Drill

[luka]

at some magical moment it becomes its own thing very joyously emerges like a lovely butterfly

 

[luka]

the lights get brighter the intensity levels go up it all comes into focus for the first time like a spotlight is shining on them

 

[luka]

like you realise you can push it into a higher register and occupy it and get away with it, people will follow you there and like it still, love it more, its an act of daring, a leap of faith

 

[Corpsey]

Before this?

UK stuff is a bit depressing based on this. A bit played out. Plus the lame video.

 

[luka]

looks and sounds so shit

 

[Corpsey]

Feels a bit like UK drill got defanged and 1xtra'd.

 

[luka]

embaressing. capital xtra playlist fodder.

 

[shiels]

There’s restriction in this too - it’s led by the mad impossible drums, baroque feminine curves of the gliding 808 who’s the real star always, leaving little room for anyone else, all MCs operate in service to that, just decorating it aren’t they?

 

[luka]

sad loser bullshit

 

[Corpsey]

The glory days of the Moscow lightwork freestyle

Two blokes in balaclavas in a drizzly carpark

 

[luka]

There’s restriction in this too - it’s led by the mad impossible drums, baroque feminine curves of the gliding 808 who’s the real star always, leaving little room for anyone else, all MCs operate in service to that, just decorating it aren’t they?

i dunno. i really rate sha ek i think hes magnetic

 

[Corpsey]

Yeah smoothness is definitely an issue

A lot of the new York stuff is (by professional standards) horribly mastered

Tasteless in the best way

 

[luka]

i cant tell the difference but maybe i register it as excitement

 

[Corpsey]

The genius of UK drill (for me) was the softly spoken, supine flows, something introverted about it, something English

 

[shiels]

UK stuff is a bit depressing based on this. A bit played out. Plus the lame video.

Don’t disagree but woukd be surprising if the producer hadnt heard that SL thing first, for all I know could be the same guy….

 

[shiels]

The genius of UK drill (for me) was the softly spoken, supine flows, something introverted about it, something English

You talk about it in the past tense

 

[Corpsey]

You could be right. I feel like one in the head is more propulsive. It's not a million miles from the jahil beats stuff meek mill used to do.

 

[luka]

You could be right. I feel like one in the head is more propulsive. It's not a million miles from the jahil beats stuff meek mill used to do.

they both pushed into the cartoonish. thats the genius of it but this is way more sophisticated and delirious

 

[luka]

the colours are brighter, and the sense of compression is thrilling, very tightly congested and comfortable there, no room to breathe

 

[Corpsey]

You talk about it in the past tense

I mean when I first heard it really

Not that UK MCs hadn't done that before - Giggs, probably some grime MCs etc. But painting in broad brush strokes the thing about UK drill is it could have been a shit knock off of Chicago/Atlanta stuff but the MC's really leant into that soft spoken thing

Genius isn't the word, I guess it's just the way things happen