The sound of drill is the brazen brrrrrap of street-level rap over the past decade. It’s the unsettling, aestheticized sound of gunplay evoked by spraying hi-hats, double-tapped rhyme blasts, and a ...

Composer Nicholas Britell recalls receiving an audio message from director and writer Barry Jenkins with no words or description to accompany it, just a drilling sound. “He didn’t even need to say to ...

Everyone wants a piece of Cash Cobain’s sexy drill. The 26-year-old South Bronx rapper and producer’s sound and tag – “and this beat from Cash, not from YouTube” – are inescapable nowadays as the ...

Question: Before pushback from the gate, I often hear what sounds like a drilling sound – short bursts, like an electric drill working against tension. Is it the cargo doors being secured, or ...