I’m from the south and love trap music, but last year a friends little cousin was playing drill music. And remember asking what’s that and they said “music about killing people”.
I was a bit taken aback but really didn’t give further thought. This really brings a lot of clarity to what they said and whoa, I’m intrigued.
Music is such a deep thing. How you called it “pain music” seems very on par. I listened to chief keef back in the day and clearly had no clue what was really being said.
Thank you for sharing this story, and for explaining the historical, political and musical context Drill grew out of so well. Look forward to the next instalment
Nice to see your writing in the Guardian today!
Thank you for for sharing, Ciaran!
I’m from the south and love trap music, but last year a friends little cousin was playing drill music. And remember asking what’s that and they said “music about killing people”.
I was a bit taken aback but really didn’t give further thought. This really brings a lot of clarity to what they said and whoa, I’m intrigued.
Music is such a deep thing. How you called it “pain music” seems very on par. I listened to chief keef back in the day and clearly had no clue what was really being said.
Thank you for sharing this story, and for explaining the historical, political and musical context Drill grew out of so well. Look forward to the next instalment