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Drill is a trap subgenre originating from young Chicago (prominently Southside) rappers and producers. The genre is one of the most prominent contemporary facets of Chicago hip hop. Drill is defined by its dark, grim, violent lyrical content and ominous trap-influenced beats. After accruing a loyal following in Chicago, Drill broke into the mainstream in mid-2012 with the success of rappers like Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Fredo Santana, & Lil Reese, predicated on their strong local followings and Internet presence. A burst of media attention and a slew of major label signings to drill musicians followed. Chief Keef and other drill rappers attracted media attention for their graphic lyrical content, and the scene was spotlighted for its association with crime in Chicago. ==Characteristics== The lyrics of drill rap tend to focus on gritty daily life in Chicago. ''The Guardian''s Lucy Stehlik said "nihilistic drill reflects real life where its squeaky-clean hip-hop counterparts have failed." Drill lyrics strongly contrast with the subject matter of earlier Chicago rappers, which slanted toward conscious hip hop including the earlier music of rappers like Common and Twista, and contemporary mainstream hip hop, which at the time of drill's rise tends to glorify and celebrate a rise to wealth.〔 Drill lyrics typically reflect life on the streets, and tend to be gritty, violent, realistic and nihilistic. Drill rappers use a grim, deadpan delivery, often filtered through Auto-Tune influenced by the "stoned, aimless warbling of Soulja Boy (one of the earliest non-local Keef collaborators) and Lil Wayne before him." Atlanta-based rappers Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame were important influences on the drill scene. Though bearing many similarities to trap music, the speed of a drill beat is generally slower with a moderate tempo, having about 60 to 70 beats per minute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=What is Trap Music? Trap Music Explained )〕Some producers will work at double tempo such as 130 to 140 beats per minute. The age of drillers skews young; many prominent musicians in the scene started getting attention while still in their teens. One of the genre's most prominent musicians, Chief Keef was 16 when he signed a multi-million dollar record contract with Interscope, and in an extreme example Lil Wayne co-signed the 13-year-old driller Lil Mouse. Critics have noted drill rappers' lack of concern with metaphor or wordplay. Chief Keef said that his simplistic flow is a conscious stylistic choice: "I know what I'm doing. I mastered it. And I don't even really use metaphors or punchlines. 'Cause I don't have to. But I could. ... I think that's doing too much. I'd rather just say what's going on right now. ... I don't really like metaphors or punchlines like that." said Keef's songs are "lyrically, rhymically , and emotionally diminished, which is why they sound so airless and claustrophobic ... It's not even fatalistic, because that would imply a self-consciousness, a moral consideration, that isn't there in the lyrics. It just is, over and over again." A profile on the scene in ''The New York Times'' examined the genre's aggression: With rare exception this music is unmediated and raw and without bright spots, focused on anger and violence. The instinct is to call this tough, unforgiving and concrete-hard music joyless, but in truth it’s exuberant in its darkness. Most of its practitioners are young and coming into their creative own against a backdrop of outrageous violence in Chicago, particularly among young people — dozens of teenagers have been killed in Chicago this year — and often related to gangs. (There’s a long history of overlap between Chicago’s gangs and Chicago’s rap.) That their music is a symphony of ill-tempered threats shouldn’t be a surprise. Female artists have been represented in the scene since its origins.〔 ''Pitchfork''s Miles Raymer said "instead of rapping about being a "hitta" — the local term for a shooter — they rapped about being in love with hittas. Otherwise, they rode the same kind of icily sociopathic beats from the same producers as any other drill rappers, and came across as equally tough." Female drillers mix themes of violence and love in their songs, and Katie Got Bandz said, "It's different because males wouldn't expect a female to rap about drilling. They used to females selling themselves." Stehlik called drill production style the "sonic cousin to skittish footwork, southern-fried hip-hop and the 808 trigger-finger of trap."〔 Young Chop is frequently identified by critics as the genre's most characteristic producer.〔 The sound of trap producer Lex Luger's music is a major influence on drill,〔〔 and Young Chop identified Shawty Redd, Drumma Boy and Zaytoven as important precursors to drill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drill (music genre)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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