Skengdo x AM drop off new single 'With the 4's'

Much like the slang that permeates the agitated hi-hats and resonant 808s, the genre of Drill constantly mutates, drawing from a global community in a way that almost every other style of music just doesn’t–very ironic for an antisocial genre, where your neighbourhood, postcode, block is more important than nearly anything else.

For example, the D Proffit-produced beat seems to take subtle production cues from the New York drill rather than the UK variant, benefiting from a sustainable feedback loop. Spinner on the lap/one bad B, bring it to the gaff/ two bad B’z bring it to the gaff/ giving her the WAP, to give me the WAP - Skengdo deconstructs the homonyms of WAP to couple the UK street’s violent connotation with the US’s more sexual shade.

Drill seems to inadvertently encompass the triumphs and failures of globalism, in which language and social trends are live-streamed and exchanged so fast that by the time legislation and tastemakers have a name for it, it has already changed into something else. On the distant B-movie strings and reverb-soaked vocal stabs, the Drill scene’s Roque Santa Cruz and Morten Gamst Pedersen symbiotically assist each other with all the established Drill signifiers; the nihilism, antagonistic references to other notable artists and the irreverent tales of momentary pleasures in the company of inconspicuous bad B’z. Effortlessly interlocking the perils of the anxiety-inducing lifestyle, the historic duo who were the UK’s first musical artist to receive a prison sentence for performing a song in British legal history, and also alongside activists such as Pussy Riot to make The Front Row Risk List on controversial art created in the 21st century; the Brixton bullies don’t miss a step or a moment to continue their great run of recent releases.

Corn in abundance, you ain’t got heart best run then/This WAP here loves to boogie, Harlem shake when it steps in the function– whether Drill will reach the commercial heights that it once enjoyed, is anyone’s guess but for AM & Skengdo if it came from the streets, it always has the streets to return to.

Check out the song and music video below!’