
Chiraq
Englewood, one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, is also the birthplace of drill music, and Noisey's eight-part series goes there to trace the connection. Chief Keef, the genre's breakout star, is the reason the cameras came, but legal trouble keeps him largely off screen, so the series turns instead to Young Chop, the producer credited with building drill's sound, along with 3Hunna members Lil Durk and Lil Reese. Through their interviews and studio footage, the episodes lay out how the music grew directly out of the neighborhood's gang lines and shootings rather than apart from them. Residents and local voices describe daily violence, economic collapse, and a justice system that has stopped functioning as protection, while the same streets produce tracks that circulate nationally. The series treats the music and the violence as one story, not two, following how a sound born in Englewood's most dangerous blocks became a genre with its own stars, producers, and casualties.