Chicago drill

CTL-E-5173 · Practice · music · 2010s–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Hip-hop practice originating in Chicago in the early 2010s.

The record

Also known as: drill music

Relationships

Chief Keef — related to
Inverse of Keef→drill, enabling graph traversal in both directions.

Referenced by

Chief Keef — related to → this record

Sources

Music journalism (general); specific source hunt pending — see CTL-RB-TECH-000002 v0.2

Record CTL-E-5173 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · 2 mapped relationships · CTL research: TECH-001.
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