YP, a non-drill rapper who frequently collaborates with drill heavyweights like Lil Durk and King Louie, signed a major label deal in the months before Keef broke. Chicago's hot right now, and I'm what's different." People are looking for something different. "I think the window of opportunity for artists such as myself is bigger. "I feel like drill is dying down because there's only so much you can take of the same stuff just over and over," says Logan, a 19- year-old rapper from Little Village who headlines a show at Reggie's Rock Club Sunday night (Saba will also perform). In the wake of Keef and Chance (Chicago hip-hop's "yin and yang, so to speak," says Barber), the national spotlight remains on Chicago, and local artists are jockeying for position. I like to attack mine a bit differently.I like to explain things a bit differently and not be so direct, but be honest still, just keep it metaphoric. "The pain of either not having a father or having to deal with family loss or homie loss. "The drill artists, even though they're from different areas, we all share the same pain," he says. The experiences and struggles documented by drill rappers aren't theirs alone, Inglor points out. My raps are a front porch kind of perspective." They'll talk about drug deals or something like that (in the first person). "Not in the sense of sound, but (in) subject matter, the only difference between me and most of the drill rappers is perspective. "I like to think of myself as somewhere in between," says Saba, a member of the influential Pivot Gang crew, who landed a career-making feature on Chance's "Acid Rap" mixtape. Many of them, in the time-honored tradition of artists everywhere, draw from both sides, incorporating elements from drill and from Chance's unclassifiable, soul-and-psych-heavy sound, but also from drill antecedent trap, and the clattering industrial beats of West's "Yeezus." Nerd-like, experimental and controversy-free, Chance and Mensa have in turn helped foster a new wave of rappers. Non-drill artists like Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa, leveraging the increased attention from journalists and label executives, became nationally known much faster than they would have otherwise. Drill has made stars out of several Chicago rappers, just not the ones it was meant to.
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