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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Andrew Callaghan recounts the viral story behind his 18M-view Oblak video, the roots of drill music, and his infamous ride with the Kia Boys. From Chicago’s streets to a stolen car in Connecticut, this raw, chaotic episode dives deep into youth culture, crime, and content creation at its edge.
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0:00.0 | You went to Chicago, right? |
0:01.2 | Yeah, back in the day. |
0:02.0 | I covered a music festival called Lyrical Lemonade or Summer Smash, and I went to Oblock |
0:05.4 | the next day. |
0:06.2 | And somehow that became my most watched video of all time. |
0:08.5 | 13 million views. |
0:09.3 | Yeah, that was sick. |
0:10.3 | I love it. |
0:11.0 | It's sick. |
0:11.8 | Why do you think it was so special? |
0:13.3 | Why do you think it did so well? |
0:14.4 | Well, O'Blockblock is the genesis of |
0:21.5 | drill music which is a subgenre like a rap which is hyper violent and focuses on like real life violence |
0:26.8 | it's actually been a pretty destructive cultural force to be honest with you but you know o block is where it started |
0:32.2 | so it's kind of like you know how people would go to mississippi to document the origin story of blues |
0:37.2 | or they go to new or they go to New |
0:37.9 | Orleans for jazz, or they go to Nashville for country. Chicago and South Chicago is like that |
0:42.8 | for drill music. I think that in 100 years, there's going to be drill tours in the same way that |
0:47.4 | there's like a Kentucky bourbon trail where people will like drink the whole way and go say, |
0:51.3 | this is where pop, Pappy Van winkle put his 15 year barrel up |
0:55.7 | for sale at 1798 they're going to do this in oblock and be like this is where chief keef was |
1:00.9 | born in the year 1995 and there's going to be people in 21 50 like oh my god that's so crazy |
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