Five honors students from Chicago rap's freshman class: Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, and ZMoney
by Leor Galil
It's been more than two years since drill music and its best-known practitioner, Chief Keef, broke out of the south side, but a casual observer could easily get the impression that they're still the only thing happening in Chicago rap. Two recent high-profile Web documentaries—World Star Hip Hop's ambitious and messy The Field, which came out in January, and Noisey's sensationalist and repugnant Chiraq, which ran weekly from January till March—both focused on the drill scene, and in February the folks at WTTW's Chicago Tonight ran a story that sounded like they'd just discovered it.…[ Read more ]