Suno Drill prompt
Drill in Suno lives at 138–146 BPM, usually around 142. Below is a Styles prompt that passes our Styles checker, the Exclude list that stops v6 drifting toward four-on-the-floor kick, EDM drops, rock drums, a 3:09 arrangement in bars and the cued lyric headers. Copy it, change the mood and the parts you hear differently, paste.
Styles
drill, 142 BPM, menacing. 2020s UK drill, sliding 808s, dark piano. Rapped lead riding the hi-hats with clear consonants, switching flows between verses (triplet, double-time, laid-back), stacked ad-lib doubles at bar ends. Sliding 808s that bend between notes, skippy triplet hats with a late off-beat snare, a dark piano or choir loop, short perc stabs as fills. Arrangement: intro 8 bars, hook 16 bars, verse 1 16 bars, hook 16 bars, verse 2 16 bars, hook 16 bars, break 8 bars, final hook 16 bars. 808 and kick own the low end and duck each other, rap vocal dry and in front with a short room, ad-libs panned and quieter, hats bright and wide, melody loop tucked behind the voice. Ends cold after the final hook.
Exclude styles
four-on-the-floor kick, EDM drops, rock drums, acoustic guitar strumming, bright pop synths
Lead tag: open Styles with drill, word for word. It’s the wording Suno’s own tags use, so it carries more weight than a description.
Vocal: mc / toasting by default. Variety at 0 keeps Suno from rewriting the prompt on a final take.
What makes it Drill
Name the parts, not the vibe.
Suno plays what you name. “Drill vibes” gets you its idea of the average drill track; the parts below are what make the genre itself, so they go in the prompt as instructions to the band.
- sliding 808s that bend between notes
- skippy triplet hats with a late off-beat snare
- a dark piano or choir loop
- short perc stabs as fills
Production colour: 2020s UK drill, sliding 808s, dark piano. One phrase like this sets the era better than a list of adjectives.
Why the Exclude list matters. v6 leans toward pop and toward whatever the neighbouring genres share. For drill that means four-on-the-floor kick, EDM drops and rock drums creeping in. Put those in Exclude, never as “no …” in Styles: a negative in Styles names the thing and often adds it.
Mix placement beats quality words: “808 and kick own the low end and duck each other” tells Suno where things sit. “Radio-ready” or “professional” tells it nothing.
Song structure
A 3:09 radio edit at 142 BPM.
| Section | Bars | Starts | What plays |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intro | 8 | 0:00 | melody loop alone, filtered, then the 808 enters |
| Hook | 16 | 0:14 | sung or chanted hook, hi-hat rolls, ad-libs |
| Verse 1 | 16 | 0:41 | rapped, 808 slides, beat drops out on punchlines |
| Hook | 16 | 1:08 | — |
| Verse 2 | 16 | 1:35 | flow switch, double-time |
| Hook | 16 | 2:02 | — |
| Break | 8 | 2:29 | 808 and drums out, melody loop and ad-lib chant |
| Final Hook | 16 | 2:42 | — |
| End | — | 3:09 | beat cuts, 808 tail rings out |
Lyric headers
[Intro | melody loop alone, filtered, then the 808 enters] [Hook | hook chanted, full energy] [Verse 1 | rapped, tight to the beat] [Hook | hook chanted, full energy] [Verse 2 | rapped, tight to the beat] [Hook | hook chanted, full energy] [Break | 808 and drums out, melody loop and ad-lib chant] [Final Hook | hook chanted, full energy] [End | clean ending]
Every header carries a direction after the bar, [Section | how it’s performed]. A bare [Verse] leaves the delivery to chance. The last line, [End | clean ending], is what stops the fade-out and the bonus minute of noodling.
Lyrics
Writing words for drill.
Hip-hop lyrics are rhythm first: each verse line is a bar or two of rap with internal and multisyllable rhymes landing on the snare, a punchline or a twist at the end of every second line, and one concrete scene told through the narrator's own details (who was in the room, what it cost, who stayed). A 16-bar verse holds 8 to 12 lines (a bar or two each), so no bar is filler: cut any brag another rapper could say word for word. The hook is short, sung or chanted, repeated word for word, simple enough to shout on the first listen. Ad-libs in parentheses answer line ends (a word echoed, a one-word reaction). No brand names: describe the thing. Melodic rap sings the hook and keeps verse lines shorter.
Cold, flat, present tense: street-level detail (the corner, who's watching, what it costs) over boasts, short lines that land on the late snare; show pressure and loyalty, never glorify violence.
Keep verse lines to about 14 syllables and hook lines to about 8. Longer lines get rushed or swallowed; our lyric checker counts them for you.
Phrases that make it sound generated
- spin the block
- free the gang
- opp pack
- on the opps
- lose control
- lose myself
- losing control
- feel the beat
- feel the music
- feel the rhythm
- hands up
- hands in the air
Every one of these turns up in thousands of AI songs. Swap each for the specific thing it stands in for: a place, an object, what someone actually said.
Borrowing
Use drill as an influence.
Want a touch of drill in another genre? Don’t put “drill” in the lead tag of a different song: Suno will switch genres. Borrow one part and say where it goes:
- sliding drill 808s under the second verse
- skippy hats with a late off-beat snare in the bridge
- a cold half-spoken drill verse before the final chorus
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