(Recent UK drill TikTok hits from the past year or so include Ivorian Doll’s “ Rumours,” Central Cee’s “ Obsessed With You,” and ArrDee’s “ Oliver Twist.”) UK drill now faces a typical trade-off: greater social acceptance at the expense of the genre’s dilution and gentrification.
The viral momentum and chart success of “Body” represents the mainstreaming of UK drill, a genre that’s long been criminalized by British authorities under the auspices that it promotes gang violence. In an earlier “Body” trend, they also used a devilish cackle after Millions raps “high as a kite, never sober” as a transition point for outfit changes, simulating pulling a lever on a car. Creators lip-synced to ArrDee’s verse and had their followers guess which side of the Atlantic they came from based on their mouth movements. Chalk its zealous reception up to the punchy ad-libs, the cocksure attitude, and, at least to Americans, the sheer British-ness of it all. While the “Body” remix features chart-friendly names like Bugzy Malone, Fivio Foreign, and Darkoo, it’s upstart ArrDee’s contribution that swept through TikTok. The slangy lines are from ArrDee’s verse on the remix to “Body,” a high-flying single by Tion Wayne and Russ Millions that, in May, became the first UK drill song to ever hit No. Dominican dembow was a real force on the app in 2021: El Alfa, the dembow king, scored numerous viral hits, and a clip that rapper Gailen La Moyeta shared of her verse from “ Bobolonga” got almost 11 million views. Tokischa, the Dominican rapper and Paulus Music artist whose dembow collaboration with Rosalía, “ Linda,” took off in Spanish-language TikTok.I’ve enjoyed his 2021 album Boyfriend, which is subtle and mellow, going down like a light glass of wine. Once I figured out that CKay was also on Amaarae’s incredible 2020 album The Angel You Don’t Know, I was sold. The version that exploded on TikTok was a stripped-down remix that helped accelerate its momentum with a (relatively) footwork-heavy dance.
CKay, the Nigerian singer-songwriter whose liquid-smooth single “ love nwantiti (ah ah ah)” became the most Shazammed song in the world this year.But I much prefer “ LVCKY,” LVL1’s harder-hitting collaboration with Y2K-loving Spanish hyperpop artist Rakky Ripper, and have also enjoyed surfing through their “ LVL1C0R3” playlist, which features artists like SOPHIE, LSDXOXO, and Danny L Harle.
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