Growing up in the same neighborhood as GS9 and the same floor as Rowdy Rebel gave him a front-row seat to the rise of the subgenre. The Thing He’s Known For: As one of the elder statesmen in the drill scene, Fivio’s phonic buoyancy has become his signature: riotous ad-libs and onomatopoeia over AXL Beats’s sweeping and spine-chilling production.

While Brooklyn drill might have lost Pop Smoke’s distinctive rumble, several other major players are very much alive and kicking. From the small empires being built out of Highbridge to the mantles being passed down in Canarsie, artists are beginning to redefine the soundscapes of New York City - and they are as robust as ever. Young talented artists are branching out and blazing trails within the new school, as much of the rest of the country dismissively boxes them in as simply trying to duplicate the sounds of the South. Several niches have developed over the past few years, each with their own distinctive sound. However, even a cursory look at the current musical landscape in New York would reveal that there is no dearth of emerging talent across the five boroughs - and not all of it is concentrated in drill. The loss of one of the booming voices of the New York rap community - whose meteoric career was cut short by a violent end - cratered the community and felt like an overwhelming defeat for one of rap’s newest waves in the city. His sudden passing left an indelible vacancy in the city.

Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Santiago Felipe/Getty Images, Dave Simpson/WireImage, Fivio Foreign/YouTube, Johnny Nunez/WireImage and Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDALĢ020 commenced with a great loss in New York’s robust contemporary hip-hop scene: the murder of Canarsie’s prodigal son and prince of Brooklyn drill, Pop Smoke, at just 20 years old. From the small empires being built out of Highbridge to the mantles being passed down in Canarsie, artists are just getting started redefining the soundscapes of New York City, and they are as robust as ever.

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