Drill music is explicit, confrontational and often misunderstood
It has a bad reputation for the wrong reasons sometimes, according to Reginold Royston, an assistant professor who studies digital innovation at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Nile Lansana, an artist and youth educator who grew up on Chicago’s South Side.
“We’re hearing stories of violence. We’re hearing stories of trauma. We’re hearing stories of alleged crimes,” Lansana said. “And I think that for somebody who's a general consumer of drill, I would really push them to look past the aesthetics and really look into the substance.”
In this episode, Lansana and Royston look at the history of the genre, where it exists in the wider culture today, and point out what many people miss.
Some of the music heard in this episode:
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