What is Drill?

The question of the moment seems to be: what is 'Drill Rap'?  I keep hearing about it in the media, usually in the context of the various stabbings and shootings which have been afflicting London this year.  In fact, if I am to believe the press, this so called 'Drill Rap' is in fact responsible for all this violence.  Just like video games, video nasties and horror comics used to be, presumably.  To return to the point, just what is this musical genre (or sub genre really, if it is a form of rap) which can apparently move young people to extreme violence?  My first thought is that it perhaps involves people rapping to the sound of electric drills rather than a beat.  Maybe they also do some dance moves involving electric drills.  Cordless ones, obviously.  I'd imagine it would be some variation on the 'robot', with each dancer holding a drill in each hand and going through some DIY moves - miming putting up a set of shelves, perhaps, or maybe assembling a kitchen unit.  Who knows, they might also involve other power tools in their performance: sanders, jigsaws and electric screwdrivers.  Indeed, their whole stage act could involve them actually assembling a fitted kitchen through the medium of dance.  But I can't really see how this form of 'Drill Rap' would incite violence.

Mind you, I'm probably wrong and 'Drill Rap' doesn't actually involve power tools.  It more likely has to do with 'Drill' in the military sense.  I'd like to think that it all revolved around rappers dressing in archaic military uniforms and barking out their rap in the manner of drill sergeants. All the while dancing en masse like soldiers on parade at a military tattoo.  You know the sort of thing - all 'about turns', twirling batons and 'eyes right'.  Instead of a beat, they'll be rapping to a military band - all drums and bugles.  Maybe they even do rifle drills.  Now, that could be the source of the alleged 'Drill Rap' violence - all that emphasis on militarism and guns.  Could it be that the violence is the result of rivalries between competing 'Drill Rap' gangs - or 'regiments' as they undoubtedly like to call themselves.  Yes, that's probably it.  It would explain everything.  Obviously, I know that I could just go online and watch some of these 'notorious' (according to the press) 'Drill Rap' videos.  But that would just shatter my illusions - no way could any of them be as enjoyable as my imaginings.  Besides, let's face it, like most of the people in the media who bang on endlessly about 'Drill Rap' and 'Youth Culture', I'm just too old for all that shit.