Rage (also known as rage music,
rage rap,
or rage beats
[
]) is a
microgenre
A microgenre is a specialized or niche genre. The term has been used since at least the 1970s to describe highly specific subgenres of music, literature, film, and art. In music, examples include the myriad sub-subgenres of heavy metal and electr ...
of
trap music
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in the Southern United States during the 1990s. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang word "trap", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. Trap music uses synthesized drums and is ch ...
.
[
] Distinguishing features of rage include short looping
stereo-widened future bass
Future bass is a style of electronic dance music which developed in the 2010s that mixes elements of dubstep and trap with warmer, less abrasive rhythms. The genre was pioneered by producers such as Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Lido, San Holo and Ca ...
-influenced
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
lead hooks and basic, energetic trap
rhythms
Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular recur ...
.
[
] Among the pioneers of rage are rappers
Playboi Carti
Jordan Terrell Carter (born September 13, 1996), known professionally as Playboi Carti, is an American rapper. Carter was initially signed to local underground label Awful Records prior to signing with ASAP Mob's AWGE Label under Interscope R ...
,
Lil Uzi Vert
Symere Bysil Woods ( ; born July 31, 1995), known professionally as Lil Uzi Vert, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. They are characterized by their face tattoo, facial tattoos, facial piercings, eccentric hairstyles and androgynous ...
, and
Trippie Redd
Michael Lamar White II (born June 18, 1999), known professionally as Trippie Redd, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is one of the most prominent members of the SoundCloud rap scene, which gained mainstream acclaim in the late ...
.
Etymology
The name of the subgenre comes from "
Miss the Rage
"Miss the Rage" is a song by American rappers Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti, released on May 7, 2021, as the lead single for Trippie's fourth studio album, ''Trip at Knight''.
Background
Trippie originally teased the track on Instagram in Dece ...
", a genre-pioneering track made in 2021 by Playboi Carti and Trippie Redd, whose name references
moshpit
Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other, typically performed to "aggressive" live music such as heavy metal and punk rock. Moshing usually happen ...
s during rap
concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety a ...
s that Trippie Redd longed for during
COVID-19 lockdown
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions colloquially known as lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, and similar societal restrictions) have been implemented in numerous countrie ...
s.
In the context of the title, "rage" means "moshpit". The concept of "rages" at rap concerts and the use of the term "rage" in hip hop music predate the rage subgenre itself:
the first person to use the term "rage" in context of hip-hop is said to be
Kid Cudi
Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (born January 30, 1984), also known by his stage name Kid Cudi ( ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and fashion designer. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Cudi would move to New Yo ...
, with his "Mr. Rager" alter-ego, which influenced
Travis Scott who later adopted the term "rage" and made it an important part of his own
aesthetic
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.
During the 2010s, multiple artists and critics used the word "rage" in context of hip-hop, mostly either referring to overdriven energetic sound, or the moshpits happening at rap concerts,
examples being Lil Uzi Vert's ''
Luv Is Rage
''Luv Is Rage'' is the debut commercial mixtape by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert. It was released on October 30, 2015, by Generation Now and Atlantic Records. The mixtape includes features from Young Thug and Wiz Khalifa. A sequel was released on ...
'' and ''
Luv Is Rage 2
''Luv Is Rage 2'' is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert. It was released on August 25, 2017, through Generation Now and Atlantic Records. The album serves as a sequel to Uzi's commercial debut mixtape ''Luv Is Rage'' (2015). It ...
'' releases.
History
Among the immediate precursors of rage are beats made by
Mike Will Made-It, beats made by Dun Deal and C4 for ''
1017 Thug'' by
Young Thug
Jeffery Lamar Williams (born August 16, 1991), known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is considered to be an influential figure of his generation, with his music impacting the modern sound of hip ...
and beats by
Metro Boomin
Leland Tyler Wayne (born September 16, 1993), professionally known as Metro Boomin, is an American record producer, record executive, beatmaker, and DJ. He is known for his dark production style and its influence on modern hip hop and trap.
R ...
and
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Canada
* South Side, Newfoundland and Labrador, a community in the St. George's Bay area on the southwest coast of New ...
from the mid-2010s. Metro produced
Future
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's 2015 song "I Serve the Base", which has been described as an early rage track.
[
] Abo Kado, writing for
Mikiki
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, suggested that rage beats primarily evolved from the production styles of
Pierre Bourne
Jordan Timothy Jenks (born September 19, 1993), known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne (), is an American rapper, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for producing the singles "Magnolia" by Playboi Carti and "Gummo" by 6ix9ine ...
,
Maaly Raw
Jamaal Talib Henry (born September 26, 1994), known professionally as Maaly Raw, is an American record producer and songwriter. He gained prominence in 2016 as the architect behind some of fellow Philadelphia native Lil Uzi Vert's most popular s ...
and F1lthy, all of whom integrated
trap music
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in the Southern United States during the 1990s. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang word "trap", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. Trap music uses synthesized drums and is ch ...
and
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
melodies in their beats, derived strong influence from
video game music
Video game music (or VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to ...
, and also worked closely with rappers
Playboi Carti
Jordan Terrell Carter (born September 13, 1996), known professionally as Playboi Carti, is an American rapper. Carter was initially signed to local underground label Awful Records prior to signing with ASAP Mob's AWGE Label under Interscope R ...
and
Lil Uzi Vert
Symere Bysil Woods ( ; born July 31, 1995), known professionally as Lil Uzi Vert, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. They are characterized by their face tattoo, facial tattoos, facial piercings, eccentric hairstyles and androgynous ...
. The production style of
Pierre Bourne
Jordan Timothy Jenks (born September 19, 1993), known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne (), is an American rapper, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for producing the singles "Magnolia" by Playboi Carti and "Gummo" by 6ix9ine ...
and music of
Lil Uzi Vert
Symere Bysil Woods ( ; born July 31, 1995), known professionally as Lil Uzi Vert, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. They are characterized by their face tattoo, facial tattoos, facial piercings, eccentric hairstyles and androgynous ...
were, in turn, influenced by the music of
Wiz Khalifa
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. He released his debut album, ''Show and Prove'', in 2006 and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 200 ...
and producer
Sledgren
Taylor Gang Entertainment is an American entertainment company. Co-founded by rapper Wiz Khalifa in 2008, it operates as an independent record label, music management, music production and film company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The recor ...
, who sometimes incorporated
video game
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samples in their music and were, in turn, influenced by early attempts to fuse European synthesizer-based music with
hip-hop and
contemporary R&B
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The genre features a distinctive record production style, drum machine-backed rhythm ...
during the 2000s by
Polow Da Don
Jamal Fincher Jones (born October 15, 1977, or 1978), professionally known as Polow da Don, is an American record producer and rapper.
Jones has produced a variety of singles for a multitude of artists including "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj (2014) ...
and others.
[
]
Playboi Carti
Jordan Terrell Carter (born September 13, 1996), known professionally as Playboi Carti, is an American rapper. Carter was initially signed to local underground label Awful Records prior to signing with ASAP Mob's AWGE Label under Interscope R ...
has often been suggested as either an originator or primary popularizer of rage,
laying the foundation of the genre on his 2018 album ''
Die Lit
''Die Lit'' is the debut studio album by American rapper Playboi Carti. It was released on May 11, 2018, by AWGE Label and Interscope Records. The album features guest appearances from Skepta, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Pi'erre Bourne, Nicki M ...
'',
mostly produced by
Pierre Bourne
Jordan Timothy Jenks (born September 19, 1993), known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne (), is an American rapper, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for producing the singles "Magnolia" by Playboi Carti and "Gummo" by 6ix9ine ...
.
[
] It's also often suggested that the foundation of rage has been laid with Playboi Carti's ''
Whole Lotta Red
''Whole Lotta Red'' is the second studio album by American rapper Playboi Carti. It was released on December 25, 2020, by Interscope Records as well as ASAP Rocky's AWGE label. Work on the album commenced in late 2018 and concluded in November 202 ...
'' album, released in late 2020
[
][
][
][
] and mostly produced by
F1lthy
Working on Dying is an American producer collective based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was created in 2012. The current members include F1lthy, Oogie Mane, Brandon Finessin, BNYX, Kimchi, FaxOnly, 100yrd, Swaggyono, The Loosie Man & Jarek. ...
.
Despite its initially mixed reception by fans, the album would come to largely define the genre, with much of what came after either heavily influenced by or trying to directly replicate the album's style.
The genre's popularity and breakthrough is also attributed to the 2021 single "
Miss The Rage
"Miss the Rage" is a song by American rappers Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti, released on May 7, 2021, as the lead single for Trippie's fourth studio album, ''Trip at Knight''.
Background
Trippie originally teased the track on Instagram in Dece ...
" by
Trippie Redd
Michael Lamar White II (born June 18, 1999), known professionally as Trippie Redd, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is one of the most prominent members of the SoundCloud rap scene, which gained mainstream acclaim in the late ...
featuring Playboi Carti.
Along with "Whole Lotta Red", "Miss The Rage" was influential in the rage subgenre, with multiple producers and rappers adopting the style after the single was released.
Rapper
Mario Judah went on to release his re-produced version of "Miss The Rage", since the main loop for the instrumental of "Miss The Rage" was based on a
royalty-free
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Computer standard ...
melody loop.
Trippie Redd later went to on to solidify the subgenres popularity from "Miss The Rage", releasing the primarily rage album, ''
Trip At Knight
''Trip At Knight'' is the fourth studio album by American rapper Trippie Redd, released on August 20, 2021, through 1400 Entertainment and 10k Projects. The album features guest appearances from SoFaygo, Drake, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Ski Mas ...
'' and expressed his fascination with rage rap.
[
] Popular rapper
Drake
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* A male duck
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* Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name
* Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* ...
, who's tactic is often to showcase little known subgenres and styles in his albums,
released the rage-influenced track "
What's Next", in early 2021 on his
EP ''
Scary Hours 2
''Scary Hours 2'' is the fourth extended play by Canadian rapper Drake and a sequel to his second extended play '' Scary Hours'' (2018). It was released on March 5, 2021, and features two collaborations with American rappers Lil Baby and Rick Ros ...
''.
The instrumental from "What's Next", produced by Maneesh and Supah Mario, has been repeatedly likened to tracks from "Whole Lotta Red".
[
][
][
] "What's Next" reached the top position on the
Billboard Hot 100
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chart.
Playboi Carti's record label
Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...
has been an influential force in the genre, with artists such as
Ken Carson
Kenyatta Lee Frazier Jr. (born April 11, 2000), known professionally as Ken Carson, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He rose to prominence following the release of his second studio album '' X'' (2022), which be ...
,
Destroy Lonely
Bobby Wardell Sandimanie III (born July 30, 2001), known professionally as Destroy Lonely, is an American rapper. He is best known for his studio album '' No Stylist'' (2022) which peaked at number 91 on the ''Billboard'' 200. He is also the son ...
, & Homixide Gang signed to the label in addition to Carti himself.
The label has had several notable rage releases, such as Ken Carson's 2021 album ''
Project X'' and Destroy Lonely's 2022 mixtape ''
No Stylist'', which have had commercial success and have received a positive reception from fans, as they continue to push the genre to the mainstream.
SoFaygo
Andre Dontrel Burt Jr. (born October 3, 2001), known professionally as SoFaygo (formerly stylized as $oFaygo), is an American rapper and singer. In 2020, Burt released the ''Angelic 7'' mixtape, which was produced by friend and fellow rapper Lil ...
is another early adopter of the rage sound.
His late 2020 single "Off the Map" has been described as either closely resembling rage rap or being a proper rage song.
After releasing "Off the Map", SoFaygo went to collaborate with Trippie Red on "MP5", a track from ''Trip At Knight'', and with Lil Yachty on "Solid".
Later in 2021, thanks to
TikTok
TikTok, known in China as Douyin (), is a short-form video hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 15 seconds to 10 minutes.
TikTok is an international version ...
,
[
] underground rapper
Yeat
Noah Olivier Smith (born February 26, 2000), known professionally as Yeat (occasionally stylized as YEAT ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He gained recognition in mid-2021 after the release of his mixtape ''4L' ...
started releasing a more chaotic and dark version of rage rap, noted for abundant use of
bell
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samples, after multiple of his songs ("Sorry About That" and "Mad About That" among them) became popular on the platform.
[
][
] After becoming popular on TikTok, Yeat's music was noticed by the likes of
Lil Yachty
Miles Parks McCollum (born August 23, 1997), known professionally as Lil Boat, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer. He first gained recognition on the internet in 2015 for his singles "One Night" and "Minnesota" (featuring ...
and Drake.
After that, Yeat went on to release two rage albums in 2021 and 2022, titled ''
Up 2 Me'' and ''
2 Alive'', showcasing his signature darker rage sound.
Although rage has been referred to as "formulaic" and been deemed a "probable dead-end subgenre" by some critics,
many lesser-known rappers emerged, using rage in their music, sometimes in experimental fashion, among them artists like
SSGKobe
Tyreek Solomon Pellerin, (born December 2, 2003) better known by his stage name SSGKobe, is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He gained popularity with his 2021 single ''Thraxx'' who went viral on TikTok. He also gained traction through ...
,
[
] Ken Carson, TyFontaine,
Snot
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,
Cochise
Cochise (; Apache: ''Shi-ka-She'' or ''A-da-tli-chi'', lit.: ''having the quality or strength of an oak''; later ''K'uu-ch'ish'' or ''Cheis'', lit. ''oak''; June 8, 1874) was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principa ...
,
[
] KayCyy
Mark Makora Mbogo (born September 23, 1997), known professionally as KayCyy or KayCyy Pluto, is a Kenyan-American rapper, singer and songwriter.
Born in Kenya, Mbogo moved with his family to St. Paul, Minnesota at an early age. Throughout his ...
,
Ka$hdami,
and others.
KayCyy
Mark Makora Mbogo (born September 23, 1997), known professionally as KayCyy or KayCyy Pluto, is a Kenyan-American rapper, singer and songwriter.
Born in Kenya, Mbogo moved with his family to St. Paul, Minnesota at an early age. Throughout his ...
performed his rage-influenced "OKAY" single to a mere
chiptune
Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is a style of synthesized electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles.
The t ...
-influenced synth loop, disregarding trap beat altogether.
Matt Ox
Matthew Grau (born December 13, 2004), known professionally as Matt Ox, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Philadelphia. He is best known for his 2017 single "Overwhelming", and for being featured on the 2018 album track "$$$" on X ...
, an experimental rapper, has also been described as a "rager" for releasing rage tracks such as "Live It Up".
[
] Rapper
KanKan
Kankan ( Mandingo: Kánkàn; N’ko: ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫) is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 1 980 130 people as of 2020. The city is located in eastern Guinea about east of the ...
's ''RR'' album from the late 2021 has been described as heavily influenced by the rage sound,
as has been 2022 releases, such ''Carnival'' by Caal Vo,
[
] ''Muddyworld V2'' by Muddymya, and others.
[
] Yung Kayo,
Young Thug
Jeffery Lamar Williams (born August 16, 1991), known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is considered to be an influential figure of his generation, with his music impacting the modern sound of hip ...
's ''protege'', was noted for mixing rage with
hyperpop
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and
pluggnb
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, along with other influences, on his 2022 ''DFTK'' album.
[
][
]
Rage has also made its way to
Europe
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.
Lancey Foux
Lance Omal (born 30 November 1995), known professionally as Lancey Foux, is a British rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and model from Stratford, London.
Early life
Lance Omal was born in London to a mother and father of Ugandan des ...
, a British rapper partly influenced by Playboi Carti,
[
][
] released the album ''Live.Evil'' in late 2021, which contained rage elements mixed with
UK hip hop
British hip hop, also known as UK hip hop or UK rap, is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music made in the United Kingdom. It is generally classified as one of a number of styles of R&B/Hip-Hop. Briti ...
.
[
] Foux' earlier
mixtape
A mixtape (alternatively mix-tape, mix tape or mixed tape) is a compilation of music, typically from multiple sources, recorded onto a medium. With origins in the 1980s, the term normally describes a homemade compilation of music onto a cassette ...
, ''FIRST DEGREE'', was also described as containing rage elements.
[
] In Germany, rage tracks were recorded by rappers such as Pashanim, Skrt Cobain (with his track "Neue Whip"), Okfella, Dante YN, and others.
Diversification
In mid-2023,
Harlem
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-based rapper and producer Lunchbox released ''New Jazz'', a collaborative mixtape with producers streo, mowz and Mr Najibi.
"New Jazz" has been described as "Lunchbox’s desire to separate his music from the oversaturated scene of rage-rap" while its sound, and particularly mowz's production, has been described as "offbeat", "inventive", heavily synth-driven and "immediately recognizable".
As a critic suggested, "new jazz" title could be an attempt to label mixtape's sound separately from its rage roots.
In July 2023, Russian rapper Toxi$ released "new jazz"-inspired rage
mixtape called ''Jazz Do It''.
"Jazz Do It" reached number 2 on
Apple Music
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in Russia.
Characteristics
Rage has been characterized as futuristic,
electric
and synth-driven.
[
] Vivian Medithi of
HipHopDx
''HipHopDX'' is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news. The website's current president and publisher is Sharath Cherian and the Head Of Content is Jerry L. Barrow. ''HipHopDX'' is the flagship publication of Cheri Media Group.
...
described rage as a sound rooting in
plugg music legacy with more
electronic
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influences.
Tom Breihan of
Stereogum
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''Stereogum'' was one of the first MP3 blogs and has received several award ...
described rage beats as glitchy and as "a cheap, functional type of beat — the type of beat that seems to spring almost entirely from the "type beats" that have proliferated on YouTube in the past few years — but its cheapness is disorienting and sometimes even psychedelic".
[
] Rage is mainly characterized by the use
stereo-widened EDM
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* Electronic dance music
* Early Day Miners, American band
Science and technology
* Electric dipole moment
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-influenced
lead synthesizer patches,
[
] reminiscent of the 1980s and 1990s
game soundtracks and of
trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from the British new-age music scene and the early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes.
Trance music is characterized by a tempo generally lying between 135–150 beats per minute ( ...
,
used to play short, often emotional,
melodies
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arranged in short
loop
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s which repeat throughout the song,
and a basic, ''"dull"'', trap
beat
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, accompanying these melodies,
with bouncy, often
overdriven
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,
heavy and elastic
808s
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bass note
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Three situations are possible:
# ...
s. These synth hooks play such a role in rage that the whole sound has been described as a "hybrid genre of
trap music
Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in the Southern United States during the 1990s. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang word "trap", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. Trap music uses synthesized drums and is ch ...
and EDM".
Synth leads have said to be influenced by a number of EDM and
electronic
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*Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductor
* ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal
*Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device
*Electronic co ...
musicians, such as
The Chainsmokers
The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alexander "Alex" Pall and Andrew "Drew" Taggart. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM- pop duo achieved a breakthrough with the ...
,
Skrillex
Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American DJ and music producer. Growing up in Northeast Los Angeles and Northern California, he joined the post-hardcore band From First to Last as the lead sing ...
,
Diplo
Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ and music producer. He is the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer, a member of the supergroup LSD with ...
,
Zedd
Anton Zaslavski (russian: Антон Заславский; born 2 September 1989), known professionally as Zedd (), is a Russian-born German disc jockey, DJ, record producer, and songwriter.
Zedd grew up and began his musical journey in Kaise ...
,
Rustie
Rustie (born Russell Whyte) is a Scottish musician from Glasgow. He is associated with the Numbers label collective and first received attention for his 2007 EP ''Jagz the Smack''. He signed to Warp Records in 2009. His 2011 debut album '' Glas ...
and others.
It has also been noticed, that oftentimes EDM synth hooks in rage come from pre-packaged EDM melody packs, for instance, a guitar-driven
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EDM loop from "
Miss The Rage
"Miss the Rage" is a song by American rappers Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti, released on May 7, 2021, as the lead single for Trippie's fourth studio album, ''Trip at Knight''.
Background
Trippie originally teased the track on Instagram in Dece ...
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Computer standard ...
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] EDM
sample pack by Cymatics, called ''Cymatics Odyssey EDM Sample Pack''.
Yeat has also made it popular to use chiming
bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an inter ...
sounds, once popular in earlier trap and
drill music
Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago streets in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre. Drill music progressed into the American mainstre ...
,
[
] in rage beats.
In terms of vocal delivery, many rappers in rage style oftentimes imitate vocal styles of
Playboi Carti
Jordan Terrell Carter (born September 13, 1996), known professionally as Playboi Carti, is an American rapper. Carter was initially signed to local underground label Awful Records prior to signing with ASAP Mob's AWGE Label under Interscope R ...
,
although the subgenre is mainly centered around beat production style.
External links
Rage subgenre at rateyourmusic.com
References
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Hip hop genres
Electronic dance music genres
Trap music
Future bass