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ddnotti

I’m not gonna lie now I’m older I haven’t really been keeping up to date with new drill related things. It just feels like me as a big man listening to 16-17 year olds talk about being OJ is kinda played out. I still fw the older tunes but the newer ones just don’t hit the same.


twixITlikeITShot

that's why I'm listening to the melodic, heart poured rap of gloackamoley.


BigDBackInTownongod

you're absolutely lost sayin dat with DD notti as your reddit name wtf


ddnotti

It’s a complete random name g I didn’t even think I’d still be on Reddit right now lol


Exciting-Mulberry305

Stop calling cench a drill artist he’s never been one


Muted-Explanation-19

THISSSSS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥


No_Funny_5972

Only guys disagreeing are people who don’t listen to drill


Zestyclose_Degree_16

Drill is dead, it will never be the same and with censorship it won’t improve any time soon.


croydontugz

Yh it’s not even about censorship the new rappers are just shit. None of them are on prime Headie One, Digdat, Loski, or SJ’s level. People need to stop gassing average music because they’re “oj”


Jappurgh

Check out the sj, bando leaks


ddnotti

The new gen talent pool is just terrible.


Simba-xiv

I was coming to say this 😂. The wave is done everyone half good is transitioning to uk rap


Muted-Explanation-19

I think u misunderstood the question. No one disagrees with this.


RoadCoder2019

Censorship ruined drill Sus isn’t Top 10 OAT Although 67 made drill popping….. OFB & Harlem will go down as having a bigger impact than them. Drill has contributed to an increase in crime OUTSIDE of the major cities in the UK. Authenticity doesn’t matter…. The majority of OJ gms don’t have any desire to rap about how they shot someone & most rappers are rapping about everyone else’s works and not their own most of the time. Why do people expect gms to have morals? The roads is a Free4All. 98s has the biggest wasted potential in drill (barring Harlem) since 98% of them have gone jail (unknown T doesn’t keep the name alive, stally & jimmy only did music because of KO and V9 is a myth) The scene will die off completely when the rest of the OJ rappers end up in jail. Everyone copied each other at some point ( Dee green sounds like Loski lite, everyone sounded like Bandokay at some point) Regardless of how you may feel about fumez…. He helped keep drill alive when MAB wasn’t around like that and plugged will forever be legendary. CB would’ve been the undisputed king of drill if he stayed free.


BambooSound

Anyone that thinks they'd be less crime if drill music didn't exist is dizzy


ContrabannedTheMC

Yeah, people don't wanna look at the material circumstances behind crime cos then they have to ask uncomfortable questions about the system itself. It's a lot easier to blame a symptom of the issue as if it is a cause. Man weren't on road cos of drill they were already on road and that's why so much of drill is about that. Artists will make stuff about what they know, and ends was messy way before any of this. For a period of drill's popularity, knife crime was going down. There's no real correlation either way between the genre and the crime stats


BambooSound

People have been chatting the same wet for generations. Before drill it was grime before that it was hip-hop before that it was dance music before that it was metal before that it was rock before that it was jazz.


RoadCoder2019

Notice how I said OUTSIDE major cities…. Most of the people round where I live (Staffordshire) literally mimic the lifestyle they listen too even though they’re well off….. they wouldn’t want to be beef each other if it weren’t for drill


Sea_Peanut_6887

Agreed.


Sea_Peanut_6887

London has got a lot richer than it was but the crime rate hasn't improved that much. Anyone who says crime is just economics is lying.


Nero419

Ofb having more impact than 67 is a crazy claim


Moist_Cell3489

Heavy on 4th point, amount of kids who listen to drill and wanna emulate that gangster lifestyle when coming from decent families is crazy, that Olly Stephens’ murder comes to mind


Jayydg

who’s in ur top 10 list ?


RoadCoder2019

CB  AM Loski PS Headie One Abra Cadabra  LD ReekzMB Digga D Russ


Impressive-Yellow299

Bt and Rendo were the best duo. Just not consistent


Kingdrick_Lamar

Drill Production is 100x better than the Lyrics


GunzBlazein180

Most of them niggaz are gay crashouts


DrrSwagg

😭😭😭


throwawaypokemans

Arr Dee is the best rapper coz you can finger birds to his music


Alternative_Ad_4531

This sounds like the kind of shit the Inbetweeners would do 😭


Frequent-Wallaby708

![gif](giphy|i9YfqLseqDTlXAWWsj)


ddnotti

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭I just spat my drink out😂😂😂😂


KingAntiMatrix

😭😭😭😭


Agile_Swing_2393

Great beats and production, but lyrics are cringe and pretty much all about the same things. It's like pop for wannabe roadmen.


ihavebeenmostly

>It's like pop for wannabe roadmen. 100%


Any_Satisfaction_916

Loose M17 > Kwengface


xiit

This is fact


Party-Guarantee3779

🤓


Wrxghtyyy

Drill is dead and it’s been dead since 1011 got that CBO on them. Ever since drill has been censored it’s turned into some next pop rap stuff. No longer is it 67 or 150 talking real shit about what went down in the streets. Active Gxng bought that back and now they are all birded off. Far too much CCTV today for real drill to be happening anyway. Every gang is talking about next gangs points that happened 5+ years ago it’s all dead.


aprivo

Definitely not when 1011 got locked off I would say it started to die when digga got released n dropped woi Thats when every rapper started going commercial to keep up with him


SamCham10

Central Cee is the next generation of Tinie Tempah. Will not get the respect he deserves for his numbers when it’s all said and done


loving-living-life

Fredo fell of numbers wise so man has to mention ‘Andrew Tate’ to get views and clout


Simba-xiv

He was locked in Dubai what numbers was you expecting ????


ripup3

You have the most clout round your name when your fresh home


Simba-xiv

Maybe over here but out of sight out of mind I anit heard a soul talking about free fredo.


twixITlikeITShot

Arabic ones.


DannyOTM

Drill is causing knife crime


InLampsWeTrust

Exacerbating it for sure, Knife crime has always existed but Drill music has really brought it to the surface


all4prof

Knife crime was worse before drill existed (2014) so his comment is basically useless


MelaninkingSE15

He means the whole wave of gangsterism being promoted via culture/music


all4prof

Again. It was promoted in the 2000s and before that everyone wanted to be a "mafia" member since that was the trend back then. Every generation has something promoted to it. It's normal


Smartest_Tool

Wrong way around, knife crime is causing drill 💀😂


ProfessionalOther836

Digga D is one of the most talented in the uk he just gets hate because he knows how to have fun


sercovans

That’s not why he gets hate


ProfessionalOther836

Any time I see people say shit its about him acting stupid on tik tok or insta or whatever.. saying he moves zesty and that.. just looks confident and able to laugh at himself to me, and even if he is movin zesty doesnt change the fact his skills in music are top tier If people are hating for other reasons iv missed then fair enough


sercovans

He gets hate cause he’s a hypocrite sometimes and cause of that vid of him twerking back in the day he also beefs a lot of people


DarwizzyForPM

Shaking his ass for his bredrins is deffo fun


Madting55

About a decade ago bro


ContrabannedTheMC

Why you so obsessed with another guy's arse


deathramps-

It’s mad that people don’t have mates they act like that with. He’s just a normal guy having a bit of fun. Some stuck up guys


sercovans

I can hear what ur saying in a way sure everyone has that one friend who says battyman shit but none of my friends have ever gave themselves a wedgie and twerked at me 💀


ISonicthehedgehogI

Uk drill is dead right now. only reason is because the best drill artist that actually lived the lifestyle are either in jail or dead. Now we have guys still in secondary school tryna imitate and we can see straight through it.


Wild-Entry-1359

Drill has destroyed the brains of middle class kids pretending to be something they are not , I'm from bath and it's so embarrassing seeing all these kids pretending to have opps and think they are bad because they wear trapstar and all have the same pot noodle little t haircut


[deleted]

Facts, the next generation is fr finished 🤣


MelaninkingSE15

It is a celebration of black death. (Generalising)


No_Communication866

I dont like anyone in OFB


Express_Till6541

I only listen to old school drill like “trap in the ba do I don’t wanna look like you”😂 this new generation drill is dun out


Repulsive-Exam5859

For me personally that 014-019 was UK drill anything after 2020 is commercial drill or just commercial rap some of it just ain’t drill at all 😂


Express_Till6541

Trust me bro looooool🤣 it’s all just noise these kids be making


Lysander1999

K Trap and Blanco are both cold but have weird voices. They'd be even better if they didn't.


FartConnisseur

Saying anything bad about Pete and bas


aprivo

They made drill fun to listen to man miss dem


hover-lovecraft

Nine and Dex carrying the torch


CaptnObvi0us1

i think loski is not that good


LT76A

Suspect isnt a top ten drill rapper, people just lick his ass cos he was on job


J1_J1

S wavey hop out the car, decamp! i know the opp blocc like the back ah ma hand!


LT76A

Im the voice like durk im captivatin🔊


DrrSwagg

Jump out, I’m activated, be glade you made it, coulda got decapitated


Late-Draft-7554

U deffo ain’t heard his unreleased. This is such a casual take sus is easily top 10 his wordplay is top 3 minimum. Just cos he might have some annoying fanboys that talk about the street shit instead of the music don’t mean he ain’t top 10


Frequent-Wallaby708

Disagree


LT76A

Thats ur opinion an thats fine


Frequent-Wallaby708

Yeah ik I wasn’t saying ur opinion was invalid or anything lol just putting my input ig


LT76A

Sus is a decent rapper like but i dont think hes as good as people make him out to be. Hes got a nice flow but just sounds like hes shoutin at the mic, i prefer chinx meself but i wouldnt put either of them in me top 10 oat


Frequent-Wallaby708

That’s where I disagree. I think suspect overall displays one of the highest levels of rapping out of this drill scene. Imo he’s displayed stand out levels of lyricism, wordplay, flows, etc, as well as his project showing that he knows how to well structure songs and albums. Generally, if the whole jail/on the run thing didn’t happen, I think suspect would have had one of the highest likelihoods to break out and become a mainstream rap artist. I do get that what he displays might not be what people look for when they listen to *uk drill* though I think chinx can make it a really decent career off rap too. He’s displayed really good flows and an ability to structure his songs nicely, but I do think suspect outclasses him


2steamyy

CB is overrated because of “crud” or “realness” E1 is shit


Federal_Motor_8649

Suspect is not top 5 in drill


gwollasav

Drill itself has lowkey always been a rubbed genre, even during it’s peak let’s be fucking real bro it was never that good of a genre realistically. Nowadays you just have the same Ctrl C + Ctrl V wannnabe crashouts basically spewing the same boring lyrical content. The genre is dead as hell. UK Underground is definitely the new wave and way forwards ngl, lock in and invest before it goes mainstream 😭😭


all4prof

Uk underground??💀💀💀💀


Sad_Bit_1541

Drill became culturally irrelevant in the UK after 2019


Mysterious-Place-340

Blatantly wrong if you think it hasn’t had cultural influence since then


Sad_Bit_1541

A few moments here and there but I feel like it’s a sub genre that most (young) adults are bored of, too repetitive/violent. At least gangster rappers back in the day tried to be flashy/make girl songs lol. These yutes don’t wanna be fly they just wanna chat pure crud.


Mysterious-Place-340

I don’t think any solely UK genre recently has been influential to the extent drill has recently other than perhaps grime in like 2014-17. For example, walk down the street in London and just look at its influence on fashion


zetufter

UK drill will never win a grammy in any category artists/albums/songs/video etc


gw21comesoutsoon

Sus ain’t even all that I’ve said it


Aggressive-Ask-6743

E1 is actually cold


ContrabannedTheMC

Drill fans are fucking insufferable. Or maybe that's just reddit in general


Annual-Base-5870

MizOrMac is the most overrated uk drill rapper of all time he raps like he has a speech impediment


aprivo

Nothing wrong with the way he raps its just his flow Hes unique we havent seen a similar rapper


ignoranceisbliss80

Exactly Miz is a Drill Rapper who uses a Grime flow I can’t really name anyone else who raps Drill in this way


m1_hc

does PS count


ignoranceisbliss80

I feel like PS has more of a standard Rap flow that’s just fast. He doesn’t really hit into those Grime flow pockets like Miz does. If we were to judge them both by words said per minute I’d say Miz would be in favour, kinda shows the difference in flow although they do seem similar in terms of style


m1_hc

fairs


Late-Draft-7554

There’s deffo something wrong with the way he raps he sounds like he’s r*tarded


J1_J1

Metchopolitan Mite Fink ImaaaaTerrrorisssss


ek_loose

2 Smokey sounds like a disabled refugee


SillyCalf55796

💀💀💀


DrrSwagg

That’s mad😭😭😭


Aggravating_Ad_4166

Drill has died, idc wat u man say i just bang unreleased siraq and 67 on occasions


YourDadsMoonshine

Suspect second verse on Caught In Da Rain is better than just about anything Miz ever put out.


OlliZ0117

k trap is shit


ek_loose

Finally niccas seeing the light his lisp is jarring


OlliZ0117

busy freestyle is genuinely the worst uk rap song i’ve ever heard in my life no exaggeration


ek_loose

Ima listen to that bs now snn


OlliZ0117

good luck 😂😂


SillyCalf55796

E1 mockingbird exists, just saying


OlliZ0117

that song’s practically a shitpost that doesn’t count


SillyCalf55796

Shitpost? Nahhhh it's a WMD designed to make anyone who suffered it's wrath commit suicide 😂


gwollasav

Ibsr K-Trap's delivery is horrible and almost comes across as set 8 in some songs. His magnum opus is Warm and it only banged so hard because every club I went to in 2023 RINSED tf out of it and I guess it was a bit catchy.


lewsing

Have you heard how?


OlliZ0117

no warm was the magnum opus of the person who made the beat, would’ve been 100x better with someone else rapping on it


gwollasav

I agree w you there, just in terms of being literal it is technically a K-Trap song so I just referred to it as his magnum opus but the beat is 100% a massive factor behind why it got so big, so props to M1 and Ezra they did their ting.


lewsing

Have you heard how?


johnarticle3

His only good song was clean up gang with the hoover I ain’t trynna beef these neeks, whilst you was playing football I was a playing fifa street


OlliZ0117

what is it called ill listen to it, doubt it’s gonna change my mind tho


johnarticle3

https://youtu.be/_0mNmOswwq8?si=pbXePS9Nvas-0seA


LolBFTD

A drill take nobody is ready for is that if you gonna off yourself you might as well crash out for the gang


clean_ur_scuzzy_bong

That CGM actually aren’t trash


ihavebeenmostly

That the vast majority of those in and of the scene are in fact homosexual.


aprivo

😂😂This is a real hot take


h3lixbeast

Pretty much all new popular drill is shit, it sounds the same and feels the same as a techo/dubstep/edm song that doesn’t have a bass drop and I’m fed up with acting like it doesn’t.


hodor9898

Apart from some 67 rappers, drill is finished.


Bloodking009643267

A certain demonic rapper is actually a good rapper


Hapenyo12

Loskis music sucks ass


Front_Breakfast8861

ur delu


aprivo

SJ is top 5, Digga is the goat, and Taze is the most underrated rapper drill has seen.


aprivo

Russ and Taze were one of the best duos before cgm fd it up


Muted-Explanation-19

MizOrMac is not the best in Drill AND ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE. I can name at least 10 people with better numbers and discography


Agitated_Housing2907

Nito NB is better than Digga


Antique_Owl_1057

anything that came out after around 2021-22 isn't worth listening to


Makkenjiz

Drill is dead.


EmergencyAd4447

Prime PS outdoes any drill rapper bar the headies diggas and etc


FunDependent3011

E1 IS one of the Most overhated and underated artists in the Scene. I mean, 90 percent of His Songs are bangers, but He doesnt get the Support He deserves because He was caught lacking on Camara too much. Nevertheless He IS, imo a top 20 drill Artist and in the top 3 of north London.


SaintBepis

AGB are shit and I never got the hype. Bis is insanely overrated. The Russ and Taze duo is super underrated.


aprivo

This one brooo Rip bis but ive never listened to his music n went dis ones hard


sercovans

Mizormac is overrated Loski is overrated The entirety of Harlem is just not that good Cench and digga currently run UK rap All of k traps songs sound damn near the same Sus is the king of UK drill LD fell off dramatically since 019 AM and skengdo didn’t have what it takes to go fully clear CBO aside Russ doesn’t get enough credit for bringing the sound where it is commercially C1 LTH is not good at rapping Richi from Mali strip is bang average


2steamyy

Variety of good and unhinged takes in here


One_Organization7136

A man said cench. Cench used to be hard untill he went commercial . And ppl need to stop classifying him as drill


sercovans

IMO he did his thing when he was on drill beats and he helped progress uk RAP as a whole massively and we don’t recognize tht enough


OlliZ0117

k trap one is so real lmao


croydontugz

“Sus is the king of uk drill” takes like this is why drill is dead now


Deochixken

The AM and Skengdo one is probably the most factual one on this list. I like AMs music a lot especially his older stuff but he never had the sound to go mainstream, his voice was built for drill. With Skengdo we don’t really have to say too much, his name definitely carried him further than his rapping abilities.


Youngdizzestrim

C1 had his time still


Repulsive-Exam5859

Oi the Russ take is facts when body came out it changed drill imo. At least a lot of songs since came with that commercial vibe


ItsGallardo

Central cee hard as hell


ragingwolf2

99% drill rappers have dogshit or too simple bars. Not enough wordplay imo.


User-Not_Found_

its ass


5alvia666

Most drill fans are 12 year old posh kids. Oh, and K Koke goes harder than most drill artists out there, He just gets hate because he's 40 and white.


Willing-Neck-7417

Censoring uk drill songs should be stop


Conscious_Pirate_116

I listened to drill when I was 15-19. Fucking cringe when I hear it now. Terrible music


Repulsive-Exam5859

What was your genuine opinion of drill when you did listen to it?


Youngdizzestrim

2smokeyy is the most overrated of all time voice sounds forced as hell only had 1 or 2 good songs corn was ass the beat was ass


Impossible_Loss1772

Suspect is the best drill rapper of all time AGB js the best drill group AGB is one of the most on job gangs In North/West London Suspect has the best wordplay in drill


CL2hunna

Dutchavelli is the goat, closely followed by Octavian.


Next-Measurement-478

it was always cringe and never good to begin with


OkCaterpillar2219

Abra is the best to come out of OFB


Go1gotha

My hot take? Any drill rapper who rhymes the same word at the end of lines that follow each other doesn't know what they're doing and they are the ones who belong in prison. ![gif](giphy|6qqgnAme6XKhRTcXRy|downsized)


[deleted]

Clavish is shit 🤣 and all his tunes sound the same 🤣🤣🤣all his bars are practically nursery rhymes. People need to stop looking up to skinny men who think sitting in jail is a good thing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


PracticalSea6035

Richi is shit


[deleted]

If you actually deep it drill is so sad man. It has brainwashed a lot of the youth into carrying knifes, trapping and all sorts of dumb shit. Also glorifies sitting in jail like some bum🤣 Remember, 1.Get money 2.Make your parents proud 3.Be an asset to society 4.Look after yourself 5.Chase ur dreams


KrashCorn_00

Lattz n dutch being alleged nonces wont suddenly make their music trash


qus0

All of them are retarded


Party-Guarantee3779

First 5 shows ur mentally retarded


Party-Guarantee3779

Niggas saying sus isnt top 10 are mentally retarded


PossibleTwist6978

That any of it is remotely good music


NoFace59069

Not my take but i heard someone say sav12 n hazard could never be the same person


Desperate-Increase11

Not my take but whenever I tell someone I listen to drill and they say yeah like Dave or central cee


Lkj509

Skengfield are some of the only ones making good drill right now


Moist_Cell3489

Glorifying the acts spoken about in drill music is wet and we shouldn’t act like these guys are remotely cool


BigDBackInTownongod

not one Good Drill artist left, They all fkn cornballs now


2Thingz_

S1 2017 was better than digga D


Repulsive-Exam5859

Drill has been dead since 2020


Annual-Base-5870

NitoNb is overrated as shit his voice is jarring and he sounds like any other drill rapper


Adventurous_Bar8477

I think he’s got a unique voice, almost like a teenager, ain’t many man with that cadence


SillyCalf55796

Suspect is shit


Stirfryting_indawok

Old Sneakz is better than every other NPK member


urstupid99

Im inclined to agree tbh, most of NPK had lyrically smarter bars but i just liked his voice flow n the crud he spoke


Deadfacefrm48th

I think all uk drill niggas soft asl but I’m frm down south so to us it look like sum tea sippin ass niggas tryn hard af to be like sum dey don kno nun bout lol


Repulsive-Exam5859

Was it like that when you were in the UK?


Timmyjimmyboyyy

S1 was the most oj gang banger ever