Club / Dance / Electronic Rap
Located in 1 route
Club / Dance / Electronic Rap covers rap designed for movement systems: Miami bass, hip-house, Baltimore club, Jersey club, bounce, twerk rap, electro hip-hop, club drill and dance-rap hybrids. The family is about function as much as style. The beat must tell bodies what to do, whether through breakbeats, 808 bass, chopped vocal commands, call-and-response, four-on-the-floor, syncopated kicks or regional club patterns.
History
Electro and early hip-hop shared drum machines and dance floors before rap became album-centered. Miami bass, hip-house, Baltimore club, New Orleans bounce, Jersey club and EDM trap each gave rap new physical vocabularies. Artists and producers from Afrika Bambaataa, 2 Live Crew, Technotronic and Missy Elliott to DJ Tameil, DJ Sliink, Big Freedia, Drake, UNIIQU3 and Bandmanrill show the long link between rap, DJs and regional dance scenes.
Sub-genres in this family
20 sub-genres · 16 written up
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Electro hip-hop and club music histories
- regional club rap retrospectives
- Billboard dance/rap coverage
- artist discographies