Club / Dance / Electronic Rap
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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.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Electro hip-hop and club music histories
- regional club rap retrospectives
- Billboard dance/rap coverage
- artist discographies