Rap metal is a subgenre of
rap rock and
alternative metal
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music which combines
hip hop with
heavy metal. It usually consists of heavy metal guitar
riff
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s,
funk metal
Funk metal (also known as thrash-funk or punk-funk) is a subgenre of funk rock and alternative metal that infuses heavy metal music (often thrash metal) with elements of funk and punk rock. Funk metal was part of the alternative metal movement, ...
elements,
rapped vocals and sometimes
turntables
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.
History
Origins and early development (1980s–early 1990s)
Rap metal originated from
rap rock, a genre fusing vocal and
instrumental
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elements of
hip hop with
rock.
The genre's roots are based both in hip hop acts who sampled
heavy metal music, such as
Beastie Boys, MC Strecker
Cypress Hill,
Esham and
Run-DMC, and
rock bands who fused heavy metal and hip hop influences, such as
24-7 Spyz and
Faith No More.
Scott Ian
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of
Anthrax (who helped pioneer the genre) believes
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to simply Rage) is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commer ...
invented the genre. However,
Urban Dance Squad (formed in 1986), fused rap and metal before Rage Against the Machine; nonetheless, Rage Against the Machine is considered to have refined the sound, giving rap rock an edginess and grit that would define the genre for years to come.
In 1987, the heavy metal band
Anthrax fused hip hop with heavy metal for their
extended play
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I'm the Man.'' The next year rapper
Sir Mix-a-Lot
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teamed up with
Metal Church
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for his 1988 single "Iron Man", from his debut album ''
Swass
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'', loosely based upon the
Black Sabbath
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song of the same name.
Rap metal can be found in a track from the industrial metal band
Ministry in their 1989 album ''
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste'' on the track "Test" for which they hired rappers The Grand Wizard (K. Lite) and The Slogan God (Tommie Boyskee) to perform vocals. In 1990, the rapper
Ice-T formed a heavy metal band called
Body Count, and while performing at the 1991
Lollapalooza tour performed a set that was half rap songs and half metal songs.
Stuck Mojo
Stuck Mojo is an American rap metal band from Atlanta, formed in 1989 by bassist Dwayne Fowler. The band is considered to be one of the pioneers of rap metal. They have toured alongside bands such as Machine Head and Slapshot. Stuck Mojo's most ...
and
Clawfinger
Clawfinger is a Swedish rap metal band from Stockholm. The group is known for aggressive but melodic music and tackling political and anti-racist themes in their songs.
History Origins: 1989–1991
The band's origin dates back to mid-1989, w ...
, both formed in 1989, are considered to be another two pioneers of the genre. Anthrax in 1991 teamed up with
Public Enemy
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for a remake of the latter's "
Bring the Noise" that fused hip hop with
thrash metal
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. Also in 1991, the thrash metal band
Tourniquet featured the hip hop group P.I.D. on the song "Spineless" from their album ''
Psycho Surgery''.
Rise in popularity (1990s–early 2000s)
In the 1990s, rap metal became a popular style of music. For instance, the band
Faith No More's song "
Epic" was a major success and peaked at number 9 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. 1993 saw the release of the
''Judgment Night'' soundtrack that featured numerous collaborations between rappers, musicians and rock and metal group of bands.
Rage Against the Machine
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's 1996 album ''
Evil Empire'' entered the ''Billboard'' 200 at number one, and in 1999, their third studio album, ''
The Battle of Los Angeles'', also debuted in top spot in the ''Billboard'' 200, selling 430,000 copies in its first week. Each of the band's albums became at least platinum hits.
Biohazard
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played on the
Ozzfest
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mainstage alongside
Ozzy Osbourne
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,
Slayer,
Danzig,
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...
, and
Sepultura
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. In support of the album, Biohazard embarked on a short co-headlining tour of Europe with
Suicidal Tendencies
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.
On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released rap metal musician
Kid Rock's ''
Devil Without a Cause
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'' behind the single "
Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 the Old School)" and Kid Rock went on the
Vans Warped Tour
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to support the album. Sales of "Welcome 2 The Party" and ''Devil Without a Cause'' were slow, though the 1998 Warped Tour in
Northampton, Massachusetts stimulated regional interest in
Massachusetts
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and
New England
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. This led to substantial airplay of the single "I Am The Bullgod" during the summer and fall of 1998 on Massachusetts rock staples
WZLX and
WAAF. In early December 1998, while DJing at a club, he met and became friends with MTV host
Carson Daly. He talked Daly into getting him a performance on MTV and on December 28, 1998, he performed on ''MTV Fashionably Loud'' in
Miami
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, Florida, creating a buzz from his performance, even upstaging
Jay-Z. In May, his sales began taking off with the third single "Bawitdaba" and by April 1999, ''Devil Without a Cause'' had achieved a
gold disc
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.
The following month, ''Devil'', as he predicted, went platinum.
Kid Rock's first major tour was Limptropolis, where he opened for
Limp Bizkit with
Staind. He solidified his superstardom with a
Woodstock 1999
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performance and on July 24 of that year, he was double platinum.
The following single "
Cowboy", a mix of southern rock, country, and rap, was an even bigger hit, making the Top 40. It even became the theme song of
WCW
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's
Jeff Jarrett
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Beginning his career in his father ...
. Rock's next single, the slow back porch blues ballad "
Only God Knows Why", was the biggest hit off the album, charting at No. 19 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. It was one of the first songs to use the
autotune effect. By the time the final single, "
Wasting Time", was released, the album had sold 7 million copies. ''Devil Without a Cause'' was certified 11 times platinum by the
RIAA on April 17, 2003.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, as of 2013, actual sales are 9.3 million. Kid Rock was nominated as Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammy Awards, but lost to
Christina Aguilera
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. He was nominated for "Bawitdaba" for Best Hard Rock Performance, but lost to
Metallica's "
Whiskey in the Jar
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". In 1998,
Ice Cube released his long-awaited album ''
War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)'' which had some elements of nu metal and rap metal on some tracks. The album debuted at No. 7 on the
''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 180,000 copies in the first week.
It reached the height of its popularity during 1999, with the Port Huron ''Times-Herald'' describing the summer of that year as a "bipolar menu of harsh rap-metal and gooey
teen pop
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." Around this time, the style started to attract criticism in the mainstream, particularly after the troubled
Woodstock 1999
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festival, which featured many artists associated with rap metal and
nu/
alternative metal
Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. Alternative metal bands are often characterized by ...
, such as Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine and
Reveille.
Pop punk
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musician Jeff Brogowski told ''
The Morning Call
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'' newspaper in 1999 that "these macho rap-metal bands are just so mean-spirited. Look what happened at Woodstock (last summer). All the violence, looting and the fires. Something strange is going on. Maybe it has something do with all the economic prosperity. It's getting ugly like it was during the '80s, when so many people and bands were so cocky."
The nu/rap metal band Limp Bizkit's 1999 album ''
Significant Other
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'' climbed to No. 1 on the ''
Billboard''
200
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, selling 643,874 copies in its first week of release.
[ In its second week of release, the album sold an additional 335,000 copies.] The band's follow-up album, '' Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'', set a record for highest week-one sales of a rock album with over one million copies sold in the U.S. in its first week of release, with 400,000 of those sales coming on its first day, making it the fastest-selling rock album ever, breaking the record held for 7 years by Pearl Jam's '' Vs.'' That same year, Papa Roach's major label debut '' Infest'' became a platinum hit. Cypress Hill incorporated direct heavy metal influences into their 2000 album '' Skull & Bones'', which featured six tracks in which rappers B-Real and Sen Dog were backed by a band including Fear Factory
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members Christian Olde Wolbers
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and Dino Cazares
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and Rage Against the Machine
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drummer Brad Wilk
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. B-Real also formed a rap metal group, Kush, with Wolbers, Fear Factory drummer Raymond Herrera and Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988. They were formed by Chino Moreno (vocals, guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Abe Cunningham (drums), and Dominic Garcia (bass). During their first f ...
guitarist Stephen Carpenter
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His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings an ...
. According to B-Real, Kush is more aggressive than other bands in the genre. SX-10, formed in 1996 by Sen Dog, also performs rap rock and rap metal.
In 2000, the rap metal band P.O.D.'s 1999 album ''The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
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'' went platinum and was the 143rd best-selling album of 2000. Late in 2000, Linkin Park released their debut album ''Hybrid Theory
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'', which remains both the best-selling debut album by any artist in the 21st century, and the best-selling nu metal album of all time. The album was also the best-selling album in all genres in 2001, offsetting sales by prominent pop acts like Backstreet Boys
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The ...
and N'Sync
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, earning the band a Grammy Award
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for their second single " Crawling", with the fourth single, "In the End
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"In the End" received positive reviews by music critics, ...
", released late in 2001, becoming one of the most recognized songs in the first decade of the 21st century. The rap rock band Crazy Town
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also broke into the mainstream success of nu metal with their 1999 album '' The Gift of Game'', especially their number 1 hit single, "Butterfly
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", which peaked at number 1 on many charts including the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 during March 2001, remaining on the Hot 100 for 23 weeks. It also peaked at number 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and the Hot Dance Singles chart as well as peaking number 6 on the Rhythmic Top 40, number 2 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart and number 4 on the Top 40 Tracks chart. Their album The Gift of Game peaked at number 9 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Worldwide the album sold more than 2.5 million units, with more than 1.5 million in the US alone.[10/Jan/200]
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/ref> Also that year was Saliva's '' Every Six Seconds'' which was also a commercial success, debuting at no. 6 on the ''Billboard'' 200. In 2001, the band P.O.D.'s Satellite
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album went triple platinum and peaked at #6 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart.
2010s
Proyecto Eskhata, a Spanish band which debuted in 2012, has received much press coverage in Spain for its fusion of progressive rock
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and rap metal, which journalists have described as " progressive rap metal".
Influence on other genres
Nu metal
Nu metal (also known as nü-metal and ) is a genre that combines elements of with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative metal
Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. Alternative metal bands are often characterized by ...
, funk, industrial and groove metal. bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, including rap metal and other heavy metal subgenres.
Trap metal
Trap metal (also known as ragecore, death rap, industrial trap and scream rap) is a fusion genre that combines elements of trap music
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and heavy metal, as well as elements of other genres, like industrial and nu metal. It is characterized by distorted beats, hip hop flows, harsh vocals, and down tuned heavy metal guitars. Bones
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has been considered by ''Kerrang!
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'' to be one of the earliest practitioners of the genre, performing trap metal tracks beginning around 2014. British rapper Scarlxrd is often associated with the genre and is considered a pioneer of trap metal. WQHT
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described OG Maco's 2014 eponymous EP as being a part of the genre's early development. Other artists associated with trap metal include Dropout Kings
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, Bone Crew, Ghostemane
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, ZillaKami
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He has been noted by publications such as ''HotNewHipHop'' as ...
, Fever 333
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, Ho99o9
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, City Morgue
City Morgue is an American hip hop group from New York City which consists of rappers ZillaKami (Junius Rogers) and SosMula (Vinicius Sosa).
History
Prior to the formation of City Morgue in 2017, Junius Rogers, professionally known as ZillaKa ...
, Kid Bookie, Rico Nasty, Kim Dracula
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, Backxwash, Denzel Curry, and $uicideboy$, as well as the early careers of XXXTentacion
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, 6ix9ine and Ski Mask the Slump God
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.
Some artists such as Ho99o9, ZillaKami and 6ix9ine are also influenced by hardcore punk
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, whereas Ghostemane's music contains elements of black metal
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, gothic rock and emo.
See also
*Crunkcore
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* Nu metal
* List of rap metal and rap rock bands
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