Drill drum patterns.

1. 2010s

   1. 2010
      

      Hard in da Paint

      Waka Flocka Flame

      Root: Lex Luger's brass-and-808 sound and Waka's delivery, both named major influences on early Chicago drill
   2. 2011
      

      Bang

      Chief Keef

      Title track of Keef's 2011 mixtape; one of the viral YouTube videos that first carried Chicago drill online
   3. 2012
      

      Landmark

      I Don't Like

      Chief Keef ft. Lil Reese

      Young Chop's debut-single beat: ominous synths, heavy 808s and busy, rattling snares that fixed the Chicago drill sound
   4. 2012
      

      Kill Shit

      Lil Herb & Lil Bibby

      Lil Herb and Lil Bibby's early duet, which NME ranks among the best pioneering Chicago drill tracks
   5. 2012
      

      Landmark

      Love Sosa

      Chief Keef

      Young Chop's synth-brass and bell beat with crashes and busy snares, the classic Chicago kit; often called Keef's signature
   6. 2013
      

      Let's Get It

      Stickz

      Brixton RocBlock track NME calls arguably one of the first UK drill songs: Chicago drill moved onto London streets
   7. 2014
      

      Landmark

      Live Corn

      67 (LD)

      LD's first track under that name; 67 are credited as UK drill's founders, steering the sound toward a homegrown style
   8. 2014
      

      Hot N*gga

      Bobby Shmurda

      Jahlil Beats' hard, sparse beat (first used by Lloyd Banks) took Chicago-influenced Brooklyn street rap to the top ten
   9. 2016
      

      Suburban

      22Gz

      Credited, with Sheff G's 'No Suburban', with first drawing attention to Brooklyn's own drill scene
   10. 2016
       

       Let's Lurk

       67 ft. Giggs

       Road-rap veteran Giggs joins 67 on the track that marked the peak of UK drill's first phase
   11. 2017
       

       Landmark

       Kennington Where It Started

       Harlem Spartans

       Kennington anthem fans credit with taking UK drill mainstream in early 2017
   12. 2017
       

       Moscow March

       Moscow17

       Peckham crew's high-energy 2017 return, a party staple of UK drill's breakout year
   13. 2018
       

       Know Better

       Headie One & RV

       Underground hit from The One mixtape that broke Headie One, who went on to UK top-five drill hits
   14. 2018
       

       Crazy Story

       King Von

       Narrative Chicago drill single that broke beyond the city when the local scene had gone quiet; spawned two sequels
   15. 2019
       

       Landmark

       Welcome to the Party

       Pop Smoke

       British producer 808Melo's UK-style drill beat under a Brooklyn voice; credited with bringing drill to the US mainstream

2. 2020s

   1. 2021
      

      Body

      Russ Millions & Tion Wayne

      First UK drill single to top the UK Singles Chart, five years after 67's first-phase peak
   2. 2021
      

      Heartbroken

      Bandmanrill

      Newark pioneer of club drill, setting drill flows over Jersey club's rapid kick patterns
   3. 2021
      

      Being Honest

      Kay Flock

      Bronx drill built on a sample of XXXTentacion's 'Changes'; Pitchfork ranked it among 2021's best rap songs
   4. 2022
      

      Munch (Feelin' U)

      Ice Spice

      RiotUSA's bouncy Bronx drill beat under a 1:44 song; Ice Spice's breakout and a Platinum US hit

Press play to loop each record's busiest two bars. Patterns are machine-detected from the recordings, not verified transcriptions.