The early sounds of Chicago drill felt like a bit of controlled chaos, at least compared to what was to come. L’A Capone and RondoNumbaNine’s “Play for Keeps” marked a trend of young rappers bringing ...

Chicago drill rapper FBG Cash suffered more than a dozen gunshot wounds when he was killed in an early Friday morning shooting on Chicago’s South Side that also left a woman who was with him seriously ...

Drill’s takeover of rap’s biggest scenes over the last ten years has been hard to beat, having shaped a cultural movement stretching as far and wide as Chicago, the U.K., and NYC. Here are 17 ...

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Opening arguments are expected this week in a federal murder and racketeering trial that spotlights links between Chicago’s gang culture and drill rap, a subset of rap. Six members and associates of ...

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Walking out of Cook County Jail’s intake center that drizzly Saturday night a year ago, Londre Sylvester smelled freedom for all of 100 steps before two gunmen made him the latest example of Chicago’s ...

From the inception of hip-hop, the genre has been anchored in community. Birthed in New York 50 years ago, rap was further fortified in Los Angeles, and more recently cascaded to the top in Atlanta ...

CHICAGO — Chicago drill rapper FBG Cash was killed early Friday morning in an Auburn Gresham shooting that also left a 29-year-old woman wounded, according to authorities and the rapper’s manager and ...