Earlier this year, drill rappers CHII WVTTZ and TDott Woo were killed in shootings days apart from one another. Mayor Adams responded by condemning drill music and linking it to gun violence.

breaking: at least three New York drill rappers — Sha Ek, 22Gz and Ron Suno — have been cut from this weekend’s Rolling Loud festival in Queens at the request of the NYPD, their ...

Drill, which started as a neighborhood hip-hop sound in Chicago about a decade ago, has since traveled to London, New York, Stockholm and beyond, becoming a dominant mode for rap music.