New York Drill
New York drill is the city's take on drill music, led by Brooklyn and then the Bronx, with sliding 808 bass and hard-edged verses.
Brooklyn rappers took up UK drill beats in the late 2010s, and Pop Smoke turned the sound into a national hit. In the early 2020s the Bronx added its own version, known for looping well-known pop and R&B samples, with Kay Flock and Ice Spice among its names. Softer offshoots such as sexy drill followed.
Artists it is known for: Pop Smoke, Fivio Foreign, Sheff G, Ice Spice.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- New York City, mid-2010s
- Also called
- ny drill, brooklyn drill, bronx drill
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have new york drill among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
New York Drill artists
Pop Smoke
Sleepy Hallow
41
Sheff G
M Row
Kay Flock
Lil Mabu
DayymeinThe new york drill artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.