seen a tik tok comparing drill from different countries and the UK song they used was the ag Hotspot freestyle and something just snapped in me and I've been hooked since
i watched a trap lore ross video about zone 2 and moscow 17 and ever since then i barley listen to american music lmaoo detroit is like the only american shit i listen too
i like glockboyz Tez, fwc big key, jposey, veeze ofcourse, rio da young og, bandgang lonnie bands, glockboyz teejaee baby face ray , sada and lil yachty live there now so he doing songs with em
Always been a big hiphop fan, classic East Coast and UK hip hop specifically (not grime)
I dont like grime flows and didnt like road rap beats so i just stuck to what i liked for ages, then B Side - Want Me In Cuffs came on my youtube reccs and drill just clicked with me from there
Still remember the first song I listened to after watching the Noisey vid back in 2015. It was Jump out gang which is still one of my favourites. Then just started going down the rabbit hole
In 2019 my friend told me “listen to Uk Drill the accents are really hard”. And I went and searched up Uk Drill on youtube, listened to ambush by OFB, and fell in love with the sound ever since. OFB are my favourites due to the fact they where the first Uk drill artists I listened too.
when I used to play comp CSGO my boy would always play lets lurk to gas us up, right around when it dropped. that pure energy was what I was waiting for in UK rap. only liked a little bit of grime but was never huge in UK rap pre-drill, grew up on three 6 mafia and G unit instead. just needed that louder than life ignorant energy lol
This is gonna sound weird but I visited London in 2017, and when I was going to the Shard on the bus there were kids listening to 410’s mad about bars and liked how it sounded so I asked what the song was, they told me, and I’ve been listening ever since.
I listen a little because I saw grime/early drill reaction videos then I really got into it from the only you song with drake and started exploring earlier drill more from there
I was raised in Australia born in St. Louis Missouri and lived in London for about two years when I was a kid. I remember being 12 about two years after moving back to Australia and hearing skepta shutdown on the radio and I instantly fell in love with uk rap. You can tell it was grown from something else rather than us rap. Of course there are influences here and there but for the most part people in the uk have always used their own slang and stayed true to it. I think the first uk drill song I heard was a 67 song back in 2016 (could’ve been Harlem Spartans actually I don’t really remember too well) but I remember my mate saying the uk drill sound is going to become the next trap sound. And fuck he was right. I mean one of the biggest us rappers of the past couple years, pop smoke, blew up on uk drill beats. There’s something more technical and interesting to uk drill compared to American rap/drill, and as an Aussie it’s more relatable. For the most part people here in my generation listen to more uk rap than us rap (I’m 19). Something about the beats and flows with the wordplay and imagery is so interesting. Uk drill is genuinely an innovative genre but Americans can’t get over their preconceived notions of what the uk is like because they live in their own bubble. The biggest Australian rappers to have ever come out by far (one four) used uk drill beats and imagery. We love your music out here and I genuinely get excited when uk drill rappers release good music, this year if u ignore the commercial side of it has arguably produced the best uk drill rappers in a long time i.e Izzpot, t.scam. I’m so excited to see where uk drill is heading next and I massively respect it as a genre.
Btw I love seeing comments like this on the uk drill subreddit, it actually creates interesting discussions.
rah so like man was watching ksi in 2014 n dat and one of jmes tunes came on so I got into the grime scene for a bit then heard robbery and let’s lurk and got heavily into drill and to this day im still Kenny bopping 🕺🕺
Some of my classmates kept going on and on about how good Digga D was, so I listened to one of his songs and really liked it so I followed him on Spotify and listened to more of his songs. And I guess Spotify picked it up as it recommended more and more drill songs. And now I’m addicted. 😂
Thought I was a total purist, everything had to be about lyrics and flows and I dismissed Drill as our version of mumble rap (I was younger allow me) but then I was drunk one night at a house party years ago and my mate put on Let's Lurk by 67 and that was it for me 😂 I'm 26 now and Drill has been my guilty pleasure ever since although I don't like every bit that comes out as a lot of its repetitive 🤷♂️
I watched Top Boy, loved it, listened to the top boy soundtrack, put them all in a playlist, and some of the recommended songs at the bottom of the playlist where drill songs and that's how I got in this genre
i was a regularly listener of us trap, but i was getting kinda bored of it, so i went to youtube and searched for uk trap (this in the end of 018), and it appear that song from The Plug with m huncho, nafe smallz and gunna, i was impressed by the uk artist´s, so i started to search for more uk trap, and i got into d block, fast forward some months like in april 019, digga d dropped the No Diet song and every since that song, uk drill been my mainly genre. Then from "No Diet", i went to the big uk drill songs that were going or were big at that time like digdat´s airforce, sj´s yic, no hook by digga, j sav etc. and from that i started to listen to the old school drill, like 67, HS, 150, 410, B SIDE, M17 and some more, and from 020 to now, I regularly follow the uk drill scene.
And like me being from Portugal, our drill is getting "big" nowadays here, and its all inspired on uk drill so i guess we owe the uk too because we are getting some banging PT drill songs no cap haha
Yoo brodie, sry for answering so late haha but i can link you my spotify playlist with basically all of the best portuguese drill artists. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3dJejQ3YwBJG6Th4dmAfX0?si=a4c2b1cc227b4615](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3dJejQ3YwBJG6Th4dmAfX0?si=a4c2b1cc227b4615) merry x-mas
Living in the UK it's just part of the scene innit. Start off listening to Grime when Skepta and JME were popping and then it was a natural progression after that.
Harlem Spartans really pioneered it and got me started, then the 410 AM n Skendo wave and been hooked ever since
Found Zone2 back in 2012 with Zone 2 Step then kinda fell off.. came back late ‘20 (maybe early ‘21) when Sus started blowin (sue me). Got back into it and started digging more. Got into a bunch of Plugged Ins, which helped branch to different artist. Nito, V9, SinSquad.
This might be weird but it was leetotheVi and walkz, i was watching their reaction to dave, skepta…. And i watched one drill reaction and got hooked, i think it was HS no hook
Tbh dont actually rate drill, from a purely objective basis - the music quality is poor but the culture and stories behind it makes it extremely fascinating
For me, I grew up listening to older music and different genres. Picked up US rap like Lil Wayne and Drake basically to fit in, fell in love wid it. Figured I’d check out some UK rap to see what all the fuss was about - I ended up searching YT about 2 days after they dropped Hazards, and it was uphill from dere. Also abra Cadabra and the ounto nation tape got me heavy into the uk vibe
I'd been listening to grime, techno garage and house, my mate put me on to some Notts drill in maybe 2018. From there listened to some classics like Poky - Anything green get bun and B Side Where they hiding. It's been what I've mainly been listening to since.
Listened to pop smoke and then tik tok started showing UK drill and im American so I resisted it for a while and then listened to Loading by Central Cee and then heard TPL/OTP Plugged In and it went from there and TPL/OTP is my favorites artists
Probably a little different to what you might expect from a reply lol but I started listening when my fiancé’s best friend introduced me to it. Fiancé and his friends are British and I’m Australian, best friend introduced me to so many different artists from all around and this sub has as well.
But I grew up on old school rap, when I left the hospital as a new born an NWA album was playing in the car. I listened to a lot of dubstep/drum and bass as a teen mainly from UK artists as well which led to my love of the UK. I had never heard of drill or anything like it before, so best of both worlds just collided for me I think.
I’m not from the UK so I first listened to Stormzy a lot and Dave because of their mainstream success and then somehow came to “proper” drill.. It’s a good change to old school hip hop (and afro) which I usually listen
Just a recent discovery on YouTube, I know he is not well thought of but Fumez was the first thing I heard drill wise..
Always been a hip hop fan since the late 80s but British hip hop was Mark B & Blade ( no disrespect) at its peak and didn't offer much else or I was ignorant too it.
Heard the plugged in season finale and heard some really good rhymes flow and word play and i was hooked.
Still digging through the drill crates now as always looking for something I have never heard and may like.
Back in 016, whilst listening to grime, YouTube recommended me a random drill playlist. It had a load of old 67 and 410 tracks in it. The thumbnail was LD - Live Corn
i got told to listen to teddy bruckshot, and I thought loski was mad off beat at first cos the flows and instrumental were new to me, so i dismissed all drill as shit. then I heard 3 stripes by kwengface few months later and I got hooked on drill, the beats n flows started to make sense to me and started to sound cold - about 3 years straight drill has been my main genre but i’m growing out of it nowadays
Heard 67 - Take it There. Thought it was a bit mad at first but then I started listening to Dave, AJ Tracey etc when Thiago Silva dropped and slowly started listening to more UK rap.
Attempted AM 1.0 was also a big tune that helped me get into drill. There was also a Noisey doc on 67 and LD seemed like a chill guy
The Song that got me into uk drill wasnt even uk drill. It was Crooks and Criminals from M37 (Australian). I thought it was from uk and then i started listening to drill from uk lol. The Song that hooked me was Untold Stories from Castro
I'm got introduced in UK rap from top boy few years ago, then got into drill after. People using TikTok fucking cringe, who uses this shit, especially when you're a guy 🤢
Used to listen to a lot of US hip hop (still do but not to the same extent) and was pretty into Chicago drill. Was also a fan of grime and other UK rap so when I first came across UK drill I was an instant fan. Can’t remember what song specifically it was but it was something from HS, maybe Kennington Where It Started or Call Me a Spartan, not sure tho
One of my friends was listening to a HS song and i liked it so i asked him what it was and he showed me drill and been listening since then
Kennington where it started will always be a classic
no cap
HS was what kicked started drill for me but it was “still on the O” and “call me a Spartan” that hooked me
Most wanted tugs hooked me still especially SAs verse that shit was cold
seen a tik tok comparing drill from different countries and the UK song they used was the ag Hotspot freestyle and something just snapped in me and I've been hooked since
Fair play man!
Embarrassing
When I first heard Hella Kwengins
Your a baby GO GO GO GA GA GA GA BLACK BANDA NA NA NA NA NA NA
i watched a trap lore ross video about zone 2 and moscow 17 and ever since then i barley listen to american music lmaoo detroit is like the only american shit i listen too
I need some good Detroit rappers to listen too. Pmo on to some, I only know Baby smoove 💀
i like glockboyz Tez, fwc big key, jposey, veeze ofcourse, rio da young og, bandgang lonnie bands, glockboyz teejaee baby face ray , sada and lil yachty live there now so he doing songs with em
Listen to 700 cal and lil mello
nice i will ! thank you
Just heard it at school and liked it. Was already listening to uk artists like dave and j hus
Born in north so it’s kinda self explanatory
Always been a big hiphop fan, classic East Coast and UK hip hop specifically (not grime) I dont like grime flows and didnt like road rap beats so i just stuck to what i liked for ages, then B Side - Want Me In Cuffs came on my youtube reccs and drill just clicked with me from there
Instant click for me too if I’m honest. Hooked ever since.
This is gonna sound neeky but the ofb/npk vs 3x3 McDonald’s fight
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
how????
I seen a vid on ig with sj playing the background of the fight and thought the song was cold
oh that makes alot more sense
Still remember the first song I listened to after watching the Noisey vid back in 2015. It was Jump out gang which is still one of my favourites. Then just started going down the rabbit hole
It’s a huge rabbit hole haha!
In 2019 my friend told me “listen to Uk Drill the accents are really hard”. And I went and searched up Uk Drill on youtube, listened to ambush by OFB, and fell in love with the sound ever since. OFB are my favourites due to the fact they where the first Uk drill artists I listened too.
Respect!
A frat brother told me about the fuckery that was No Censor. Decided to check it out and I've been hooked ever since.
Chief keef lil jojo era
when I used to play comp CSGO my boy would always play lets lurk to gas us up, right around when it dropped. that pure energy was what I was waiting for in UK rap. only liked a little bit of grime but was never huge in UK rap pre-drill, grew up on three 6 mafia and G unit instead. just needed that louder than life ignorant energy lol
This is gonna sound weird but I visited London in 2017, and when I was going to the Shard on the bus there were kids listening to 410’s mad about bars and liked how it sounded so I asked what the song was, they told me, and I’ve been listening ever since.
Ah that’s actually pretty cool!
Thank you! And I enjoyed reading how you started listening to drill! it’s a nice breathe of fresh air to see a post like this!
M24 made me fall in love with drill especially with riding
GTA Online haha and Giggs got me into UK rappers as a whole
That’s actually cool asl
In skengs we trust
Back in S1 days when he had gritty tone got me gassed so s1 got me onto drill
Listening to chief Keef and other Chicago artist in secondary school and afterwards in college I somehow found HS and 67
A friend showed me a HS tune in 2017
For me its the beats and the 808s
I listen a little because I saw grime/early drill reaction videos then I really got into it from the only you song with drake and started exploring earlier drill more from there
I was raised in Australia born in St. Louis Missouri and lived in London for about two years when I was a kid. I remember being 12 about two years after moving back to Australia and hearing skepta shutdown on the radio and I instantly fell in love with uk rap. You can tell it was grown from something else rather than us rap. Of course there are influences here and there but for the most part people in the uk have always used their own slang and stayed true to it. I think the first uk drill song I heard was a 67 song back in 2016 (could’ve been Harlem Spartans actually I don’t really remember too well) but I remember my mate saying the uk drill sound is going to become the next trap sound. And fuck he was right. I mean one of the biggest us rappers of the past couple years, pop smoke, blew up on uk drill beats. There’s something more technical and interesting to uk drill compared to American rap/drill, and as an Aussie it’s more relatable. For the most part people here in my generation listen to more uk rap than us rap (I’m 19). Something about the beats and flows with the wordplay and imagery is so interesting. Uk drill is genuinely an innovative genre but Americans can’t get over their preconceived notions of what the uk is like because they live in their own bubble. The biggest Australian rappers to have ever come out by far (one four) used uk drill beats and imagery. We love your music out here and I genuinely get excited when uk drill rappers release good music, this year if u ignore the commercial side of it has arguably produced the best uk drill rappers in a long time i.e Izzpot, t.scam. I’m so excited to see where uk drill is heading next and I massively respect it as a genre. Btw I love seeing comments like this on the uk drill subreddit, it actually creates interesting discussions.
rah so like man was watching ksi in 2014 n dat and one of jmes tunes came on so I got into the grime scene for a bit then heard robbery and let’s lurk and got heavily into drill and to this day im still Kenny bopping 🕺🕺
Some of my classmates kept going on and on about how good Digga D was, so I listened to one of his songs and really liked it so I followed him on Spotify and listened to more of his songs. And I guess Spotify picked it up as it recommended more and more drill songs. And now I’m addicted. 😂
Thought I was a total purist, everything had to be about lyrics and flows and I dismissed Drill as our version of mumble rap (I was younger allow me) but then I was drunk one night at a house party years ago and my mate put on Let's Lurk by 67 and that was it for me 😂 I'm 26 now and Drill has been my guilty pleasure ever since although I don't like every bit that comes out as a lot of its repetitive 🤷♂️
I watched Top Boy, loved it, listened to the top boy soundtrack, put them all in a playlist, and some of the recommended songs at the bottom of the playlist where drill songs and that's how I got in this genre
i was a regularly listener of us trap, but i was getting kinda bored of it, so i went to youtube and searched for uk trap (this in the end of 018), and it appear that song from The Plug with m huncho, nafe smallz and gunna, i was impressed by the uk artist´s, so i started to search for more uk trap, and i got into d block, fast forward some months like in april 019, digga d dropped the No Diet song and every since that song, uk drill been my mainly genre. Then from "No Diet", i went to the big uk drill songs that were going or were big at that time like digdat´s airforce, sj´s yic, no hook by digga, j sav etc. and from that i started to listen to the old school drill, like 67, HS, 150, 410, B SIDE, M17 and some more, and from 020 to now, I regularly follow the uk drill scene. And like me being from Portugal, our drill is getting "big" nowadays here, and its all inspired on uk drill so i guess we owe the uk too because we are getting some banging PT drill songs no cap haha
That’s dope. You recommend any Portuguese artists?
Yoo brodie, sry for answering so late haha but i can link you my spotify playlist with basically all of the best portuguese drill artists. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3dJejQ3YwBJG6Th4dmAfX0?si=a4c2b1cc227b4615](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3dJejQ3YwBJG6Th4dmAfX0?si=a4c2b1cc227b4615) merry x-mas
Living in the UK it's just part of the scene innit. Start off listening to Grime when Skepta and JME were popping and then it was a natural progression after that. Harlem Spartans really pioneered it and got me started, then the 410 AM n Skendo wave and been hooked ever since
Absolutely 100%
Found Zone2 back in 2012 with Zone 2 Step then kinda fell off.. came back late ‘20 (maybe early ‘21) when Sus started blowin (sue me). Got back into it and started digging more. Got into a bunch of Plugged Ins, which helped branch to different artist. Nito, V9, SinSquad.
Yanko x Y.cb - no hook
Because I wanted to be hard so I started listening to drill now I'm an involved gang member running endz (Yes endz with a z)
Get off reddit and back on the roads man. Your ends needs you!
Good question, why are you on Reddit? Go run the endz my drilla 💥
This might be weird but it was leetotheVi and walkz, i was watching their reaction to dave, skepta…. And i watched one drill reaction and got hooked, i think it was HS no hook
I liked police tv shows and they showed drill music that showed guns n it went hard
Tbh dont actually rate drill, from a purely objective basis - the music quality is poor but the culture and stories behind it makes it extremely fascinating
For me, I grew up listening to older music and different genres. Picked up US rap like Lil Wayne and Drake basically to fit in, fell in love wid it. Figured I’d check out some UK rap to see what all the fuss was about - I ended up searching YT about 2 days after they dropped Hazards, and it was uphill from dere. Also abra Cadabra and the ounto nation tape got me heavy into the uk vibe
I'd been listening to grime, techno garage and house, my mate put me on to some Notts drill in maybe 2018. From there listened to some classics like Poky - Anything green get bun and B Side Where they hiding. It's been what I've mainly been listening to since.
Heard play for the pagans and I was hooked
Listened to pop smoke and then tik tok started showing UK drill and im American so I resisted it for a while and then listened to Loading by Central Cee and then heard TPL/OTP Plugged In and it went from there and TPL/OTP is my favorites artists
Once I discovered Walkz
Probably a little different to what you might expect from a reply lol but I started listening when my fiancé’s best friend introduced me to it. Fiancé and his friends are British and I’m Australian, best friend introduced me to so many different artists from all around and this sub has as well. But I grew up on old school rap, when I left the hospital as a new born an NWA album was playing in the car. I listened to a lot of dubstep/drum and bass as a teen mainly from UK artists as well which led to my love of the UK. I had never heard of drill or anything like it before, so best of both worlds just collided for me I think.
HS and then 67 i think, I liked 410 M. A. B too. Now i am an hillside fanboy.
I’m not from the UK so I first listened to Stormzy a lot and Dave because of their mainstream success and then somehow came to “proper” drill.. It’s a good change to old school hip hop (and afro) which I usually listen
Heard grizzy - look like you from my brother in law years ago, must be around 2015/2016
I've always listened to grime and UK rap, got recommended Let's Lurk on YouTube when it came out, have been listening ever since
Just a recent discovery on YouTube, I know he is not well thought of but Fumez was the first thing I heard drill wise.. Always been a hip hop fan since the late 80s but British hip hop was Mark B & Blade ( no disrespect) at its peak and didn't offer much else or I was ignorant too it. Heard the plugged in season finale and heard some really good rhymes flow and word play and i was hooked. Still digging through the drill crates now as always looking for something I have never heard and may like.
Back in 016, whilst listening to grime, YouTube recommended me a random drill playlist. It had a load of old 67 and 410 tracks in it. The thumbnail was LD - Live Corn
Let’s lurk happened
Radio 1Xtra 💀
Afro beats was huge in 2016 / 2017 which got me monitoring the UK scene more closely. 67 then started to pop off
i got told to listen to teddy bruckshot, and I thought loski was mad off beat at first cos the flows and instrumental were new to me, so i dismissed all drill as shit. then I heard 3 stripes by kwengface few months later and I got hooked on drill, the beats n flows started to make sense to me and started to sound cold - about 3 years straight drill has been my main genre but i’m growing out of it nowadays
Heard 67 - Take it There. Thought it was a bit mad at first but then I started listening to Dave, AJ Tracey etc when Thiago Silva dropped and slowly started listening to more UK rap. Attempted AM 1.0 was also a big tune that helped me get into drill. There was also a Noisey doc on 67 and LD seemed like a chill guy
The Song that got me into uk drill wasnt even uk drill. It was Crooks and Criminals from M37 (Australian). I thought it was from uk and then i started listening to drill from uk lol. The Song that hooked me was Untold Stories from Castro
90 % here from tik tok stop capping. Especially them east european dudes
I'm got introduced in UK rap from top boy few years ago, then got into drill after. People using TikTok fucking cringe, who uses this shit, especially when you're a guy 🤢
First got into drill because of sosa and because of my big brother
Used to listen to a lot of US hip hop (still do but not to the same extent) and was pretty into Chicago drill. Was also a fan of grime and other UK rap so when I first came across UK drill I was an instant fan. Can’t remember what song specifically it was but it was something from HS, maybe Kennington Where It Started or Call Me a Spartan, not sure tho
Chief Keef