From the Windy City to the hummocks of the United Kingdom, Los Banos’ Villa Mob shuffles their cards and takes a step in the drill rabbit hole with their latest track titled “Two Step”. That gamble in the grimiest of trap forms doesn’t stunt the group’s growth entirely, it instead accelerates their material to the max. Crossing lanes from doddering trap to veracious footwork-inspired drill – or as they claim it via hashtag ala a marketing tactic:“#TagalogDrill”. But their presentation isn’t shown as pure novelty. Instead, the group pushes a cunning attitude. Furthermore, their loud social media genre sloganeering doesn’t only raise the stakes of their position in the so-called rap game, but it’s also their insistence on calling the competition off by pulling off a banging drill track or two. Gone are the resiliency rap and the business-oriented romanticism. This is biting and impenetrable rap as it goes. The drill goes harder as it constantly cracks down the music’s borders; rapidly changing the genre’s axis as not one but three individuals leap frogs a genre a thousand miles from its origin state.

Villa Mob’s resident drillmeister Soulja444 isn’t on the rap hocus pocus nor generates a dramachine in the scene, coming out as the strongest verse in the track. He brings the crux of the subgenre in their local shores both rap and production-wise. He aims to re-calibrate not only for himself but for his environment. Soulja’s undoubtedly the ringleader of the group whereas he’s already mastered the craft. Jamina and Buensa however came from their soul-boom bap leanings. The track’s well within the wall-breaking bass and sharp lyricism. All three verses focus on overcoming each and every of their flaws as rappers. “Two Steps” pops fire and smoke with wobbly bass lines in courtesy of Soulja’s exceptional production.

While donning the windbreakers and a facemask like a bunch of vigilantes, “Two Step” is a new beginning for the group; 2021 just called the arrival of drill and Laguna might be the territory to foster that movement.

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