Pop Smoke wasn't the pioneer of the rising hip-hop sub-genre known as Brooklyn drill music, but he is definitely responsible for helping push the fledgling brand of rap music into the mainstream. A ...

After drill music took over New York City, the producers behind the movement wanted to take it global. AXL Beats and 808 Melo—two producers who are responsible for many of Brooklyn drill’s biggest ...

The emergence of the type beats community as a legitimate force in rap music was initially met with resistance from veteran producers like 9th Wonder, who, in a since-deleted tweet from 2016, said, ...