yasb∞gie“As scholars and youth educators, we recognize the fervor over links between violence and the music. But that fervor obscures the message of loss and frustration from the young artists and the audiences responding to it. Drill’s critics are often not hearing the pain seething beneath the sound.”
Drill rap is on trial. But is the message behind the music getting lost in the hysteria?
In an essay, a digital innovation professor and South Side youth educator argue that the moralizing about drill rap’s glorification of violence obscures the stories of loss and frustration from the artists behind the music.