Brooklyn Drill
Brooklyn drill is New York's version of drill, pairing hard street rapping with the sliding 808 bass of UK drill beats.
Brooklyn rappers such as Bobby Shmurda adopted the Chicago sound around 2014. Soon after, artists including 22Gz and Sheff G began using beats by London producers, and Pop Smoke made the style a mainstream hit in 2019. It led to Bronx drill, which is built on samples of older, well-known records.
Artists it is known for: Pop Smoke, Fivio Foreign, Sheff G, 22Gz.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Brooklyn, New York, mid-2010s
- Also called
- new york drill, ny drill
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have brooklyn drill among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Brooklyn Drill artists
Pop Smoke
Lil Tjay
Sleepy Hallow
41
Sheff G
M Row
Kay FlockThe brooklyn drill artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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