Chicago's Drill Music

In the early '10s, South Side teenagers like Chief Keef and Lil Durk reinvented Chicago hip-hop with stark, cold bangers reflecting the city's surging violence. Female rappers including Katie Got Bandz and Sasha Go Hard add their voices, tough and mercenary as the boys, while producers like Young Chop hone the haunted, robotic sound with a blitz of hi-hats and bass.