Skrilla

One Liner:  Has a rap track named "blahdahdahdahdah."

Wikipedia Genre:  drill

Home: An open-air drug market in Philly

Poster Position: Bottom Quarter - Line 21
Weekend Two Only
Friday.

Thoughts:  I know that this will be a boomer ass take, but can this guy please at least attempt to rap along with the beat?  Just for one bar?  Instead, you get a guy saying things while a glitchy beat just happens to be meandering around behind him.  Sometimes when I am making these posts, I forget to stop the Spotify playback of an artist as I start the YouTube video, and so I end up with two tracks playing over each other until I can stop the Spotify.  That is what this dork sounds like.  This is probably what it sounds like when I am trying to tell my daughters something as they are watching TikTok videos with rap songs behind them, a rap track in the front of their brain and then some Peanuts-ass teacher saying random words that they want to ward off with their mental hands.

Speaking of TikTok, that is how this dude gained fame, here in 2025.  His single "Doot Doot" grabbed the public and now we are stuck with him.  27.2 million streams.

I can imagine something great with that ominous, tough, spare beat.  But it ain't whatever that stuff is about.  Here is the story of the track's popularity: "A snippet of Skrilla's song "Doot Doot" was uploaded to TikTok by an anonymous account in September 2024. It was partially popularized by Taylor "TK" Kinney, a basketball player for the RWE team of the Overtime Elite league who recited the song's lyric "six, seven" in many of his interviews over several months, and through TikTok videos referencing basketball player LaMelo Ball's height. By February 2025, it had been used in more than 126 thousand videos on TikTok."  Well, shoot.  If a player from the RWE team is on board, then who wouldn't be?

Jemille Edwards is from Kensington, a Philadelphia neighborhood.  Wikipedia claims it is "known chiefly for its open air drug trade."  What the hell, man.  It feels like if a square in Texas now knows about this illegal business, maybe the local law enforcement should do something about this issue?   He is signed to Priority Records, which is fascinating to me because that is/was the home of badasses like NWA and Ice Cube and Eazy E and Master P and Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z and Ice T.  Now this dude is smearing words around like a toddler with a dookie, but on the same label.  He claims to have started selling drugs at 12, while playing AAU basketball, but also spent two years under house arrest while in high school on heroin-related charges.  He has also stated that he makes all of his music under the influence of drugs.  YOU DON'T SAY?!?!?

Six albums/mixtapes - 2022's Kutthroat, 2022's THRILLA, 2023's Santos, 2023's Gemini Season, 2024's Underworld, and 2024's Zombie Love Kensington Paradise.  For some reason, Spotify won't let me play the older stuff.  Doesn't necessarily bother me.  "Doot Doot" is a bonus track on a deluxe version of that last album.  The second-biggest streamer is "GOD DAMN" from Underworld.  5.2 million streams.

Another kinda cool beat - makes me think of those early A$AP Rocky beats - ruined by this dude just farting words out for a minute and then waving some more guns around.  Maybe this is your jam and you can't to go try to dance along to this as it stutters and stops and jerks its way to a show.  Not for me though!