Sheff G is indicted

Sheff G — Michael Williams — was indicted in June 2022, part of a RICO sweep that scooped up several Flatbush drill artists. The case spotlighted the long-running tension between drill's documentary realism and the prosecutorial use of rap lyrics as evidence. The dance scene didn't stop, but the conversation around it shifted. People who'd treated drill as just music started engaging more seriously with the policing it ran into.