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Drill

July 2024

  • Headie One.

    Headie One: The Last One review – rueful memoir with party tunes attached

    The north London rapper’s gritty honesty is his strongest suit on a guest-packed second album that juggles dance tracks with his troubled past

May 2024

  • K-Trap, head and shoulders shot, sideways on

    K-Trap: Smile? review – terse, punchy raps-to-riches flow

    The Brit-nominated south Londoner’s not quite debut album of trap and drill showboating flies by

April 2024

  • Rapper in silhouette

    Rap music used as evidence in scores of trials in England and Wales, study finds

  • Lyrical adventurer … Central Cee’s freestyles have been influential in spreading new slang.

    Bait, ting, certi: how UK rap changed the language of the nation

March 2024

  • Pyramid schemes … Dua Lipa, Coldplay's Chris Martin and SZA.

    Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival

    Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced

February 2024

  • Central Cee performing at Glastonbury 2023 – the rapper has won two awards at this years Mobos.

    Mobo awards 2024: Central Cee tops winners thanks to megahit Sprinter

    London MC wins best male and song of the year, while Potter Payper beats stiff competition to win album of the year

January 2024

  • Spenny, Celly and J Emz of Australian drill and rap group OneFour

    Sydney police uncover alleged plot to kill OneFour rap group members

    Two men, including 26-year-old arrested in Cartwright, charged with conspiracy to murder, robbery and drug and offences

November 2023

  • Busy grafting … M1onthebeat.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    M1onTheBeat: The Mixtape review – bleak brilliance from UK drill’s best beatmaker

    The producer’s desolate soundscapes have helped define the rap subgenre, and his first mixtape injects the mainstream with even more affectingly warped and ghostly tunes

October 2023

  • Members of western Sydney drill group OneFour.

    Australian rap pioneers OneFour v the police: ‘They haven’t had to answer for anything’

    A new Netflix documentary captures the western Sydney drill group’s ongoing conflict with law enforcement. At its premiere earlier this month, the same tensions emerged

September 2023

  • Potter Payper.

    ‘I’m a better musician than I ever was a drug dealer’: rapper Potter Payper on leaving prison behind

    The UK’s hottest hip-hop star missed the launch of his debut album when he returned to jail for the 15th time. There’s more to him than his troubled past

August 2023

  • Blanco.

    ‘Grief changes people in different ways’: London drill star Blanco on prison, moral panic and his Angolan roots

    A founder of the influential Harlem Spartans, Blanco was a massive subcultural star before time inside and the loss of his father prompted a search for new musical inspiration
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