Rooftop Revelations: Pastor Brooks condemns the culture vultures that promote drill music

FOX News.com ^ | February 23, 2022 | Eli Steele

[Kaslin]

Drill music is exactly what I’ve been fighting against for the last 22 years, Pastor Corey Brooks says

CHICAGO – On the 95th day of his 100-day rooftop vigil to build a community center designed to provide opportunities to his community, Pastor Corey Brooks wished to share his thoughts on drill music and the culture vultures that promote it.

What follows has been lightly edited. We strongly encourage you to watch the accompanying video so you may hear the pastor in his own words.

Drill music has been making the news lately. The New York City mayor recently blamed drill music for the rise in violence, including the killings of two young rappers in New York. Though this issue is making the news now, there’s nothing new about this for us on the South Side of Chicago, nothing new at all.

Right before me is the very home of drill music. Right before me are the projects where it all started. I know all of the rappers. I’ve worked with them all. I’m not going to name these rappers in this video because I don’t think they are the main problem for what we’re experiencing here.

Here’s why. These kids were born into abject poverty, the worst kind of poverty in America. A poverty prison, so to speak, where they’re surrounded by violence and gang banging and drugs. It’s all they see. They can’t see outside their culture as they grow up. Because of gangs, many of these kids can’t even see it because these kids never go more than four blocks north, south, west and east of their own block.

[ifinnegan]

Drill music?

[ClearCase_guy]

Black culture is broken. My message to them — “Go Fix Yourself”.

It’s not my problem. I didn’t cause it. Stop blaming me. I’m not going to fix it. That’s your job. But I will offer one suggestion — “Try acting white. It works.”

[sauropod]

Bflr

[edwinland]

Right before me is the very home of drill music. Right before me are the projects where it all started.

And right before you is the first paragraph of your article. And right before you is a keyboard that you could use to tell people what you are talking about in that paragraph.

[saintgermaine]

Pardon my ignorance, but would you be so kind and specify what “Drill” music is?

[PghBaldy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_music

[PGR88]

Drill music?

Our distant ancestors had only a few regular worries about death - getting eaten by a lion, catching the plague, or being hit over the head with a club by the neighboring tribe

In urban America, there are always new ways to be killed - fentanyl, confentanyl, getting pushed in front of a subway train, having a vending machine fall on you - and now DRILL MUSIC.

[Skywise]

And for 22 years nobody said a thing about it.

[Mopp4]

Here’s why. These kids were born into abject poverty, the worst kind of poverty in America. A poverty prison, so to speak, where they’re surrounded by violence and gang banging and drugs. It’s all they see. They can’t see outside their culture as they grow up. Because of gangs, many of these kids can’t even see it because these kids never go more than four blocks north, south, west and east of their own block.

That's not what tv commercials are telling me. They're middle - upper class, nice homes, white moms, wishing that Santa brings them a Mercedes for Xmas etc........

[ganeemead]

"Drill music"???

You mean fifes and drums??

[the OlLine Rebel]

I love military drill tunes.

Marches even better.

[Steve_Seattle]

Drill music is apparently a form of rap music characterized by violent imagery and a guttural “singing” style. When I saw the term, I thought of marching bands.

[usconservative]

For those of you outside the Chicago area and haven’t heard of Pastor Corey Brooks, he’s the real deal. The anti-Jesse.Jackson and anti-Al Sharpton.

[fireman15]

I love the sound my drill makes when it is working correctly but wouldn’t call it music, any more than I would call rhythmic profanities shouted by gangsta wannabies music.

[ronniesgal]

i’ve never heard of drill music!

[ClearCase_guy]

I kind of like that approach. If anyone mentions racial oppression and poverty to me, perhaps I will say, “Hey, I watch TV! I know what’s going on! Black people in America sure seem to be doing better than me! They have all the money these days! I guess I’m more like the burglar sneaking through their bushes outside their nice house, getting foiled by their fancy burglar alarm. Poor white guy like me can’t catch a break.”

[the OlLine Rebel]

I love that. :)

“Guardian Angels” is my favorite, and “Chester” is great and really should be the national anthem if re-titled and re-lyriced. Great both as reverent anthem and upbeat March.

[ClearCase_guy]

I found the problem.

[ridesthemiles]

NOT MY CIRCUS

SELF INDUCED & SELF PERPETUATING