Lol @ u trying to educate me on NY drill rap like I haven't been listening to the shyt since Bam Bino and Curly Savv/Dah Dah were still buzzing. None of the beats on songs you posted sound even remotely like Big Drip or any song on Meet The Woo. It's generic sounding NY drill that everybody made and nobody blew up from. Nobody said Pop Smoke was the originator of using these beats either
I know who AXL Beats is and 808 Melo, both are UK drill producers. The latter who this beat really sounds like it was made by but it wasn't. There's a very distinct sound to that beat that besides Sheff G and Sleepy Hollow nobody was using in NY prior to Pop Smoke, it went to another level when he blew up. It was mainly used by UK drill rappers.
He was the one to blow up out of NYC off of that sound and now nikkas are biting. Fact is he took a UK drill sound and added his own unique flow and flavor to it to the point where every song on his mixtape sounds the same... that's a formula. Fivio Foreign got a UK drill producer with a similar sounding beat to the ones Pop Smoke has been using and took the nikkas flow to the point where it sounds like a high pitched version of a Pop Smoke song.
Do you listen to Pop Smoke? How does this not sound like some shyt Pop Smoke would say?:
You can literally put the vocals from "Hawk Em" or "Brother Man" over this and it wouldn't be any different
their forefathers from the 1980s would have never guessed what their rap scene would be like today
