Chicago Drill
Chicago drill is the original form of drill, a bleak, aggressive style of rap from Chicago's South Side.
It broke out in 2012 when Chief Keef's I Don't Like, produced by Young Chop, spread online. Beats are slow and menacing, with booming 808s, sharp snares and eerie bells or strings, and rappers describe gang conflict in flat, unsentimental terms. Unlike later UK and New York drill, it has no sliding bass and sits closer to trap.
Artists it is known for: Chief Keef, Lil Durk, G Herbo, King Von.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- South Side of Chicago, early 2010s
- Also called
- drill
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 5,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have chicago drill among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Chicago Drill artists
Chief Keef
King Von
Lil Durk
BabyChiefDoit
Bloodhound Lil Jeff
BloodHound Q50
G Herbo
Chuckyy
FullyChop
Screwly G
The chicago drill artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.