Christopher Thomas has a vivid memory of the first time he heard drill music. In 2011, he was working at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School within Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, aiming to ...

City of Win is a series curated by Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney and written by Alejandro Hernandez that uses prose and photography to create portraits of Chicago musicians and cultural innovators working ...

After a nearly 15-year run, it might be time to get some R.I.P. t-shirts printed up for drill music. And the arrest of Lil Durk, inarguably one of the biggest artists in the subgenre, might be the ...

The slain drill rapper is immortalized in a mural on a corner store. With a baseball cap turned backward, the painting depicts King Von wearing a silver chain that says “O Block,” a faction of the ...