To understand the musical development of UK drill as a genre, the best place to start is probably trap, the American style of hip-hop with roots in 90s records by Memphis acts such as Three Six Mafia.

Throughout this autumn, in Hoxton, north-east London, I worked with Young Urban Arts Foundation, a charity whose team drive a multimedia bus onto housing estates to engage young people in making music ...

Since it first trickled over from Chicago in the mid-2010s, drill has grown in unimaginable ways. Starting as a niche South London sound, with its eerie, 808s-loaded beats and just as if not more ...