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Phonk
Phonk () is a subgenre of hip hop music, hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap. The genre is characterized by its use of vintage Memphis rap vocals, chopped and screwed production techniques, and Sampling (music), samples from early 1990s hip hop, often combined with samples from jazz and funk. The genre emerged in the Southern United States during the 1990s, with pioneers like DJ Screw, Three 6 Mafia, and DJ Spanish Fly laying its groundwork. The term "phonk" was popularized in the early 2010s by rapper and producer SpaceGhostPurrp, who described it as a modern take on funk-inspired hip hop. In the late 2010s, a subgenre called drift phonk emerged in Russia, distinguished by its heavy use of Cowbell (instrument), cowbells, aggressive Bassline, basslines, and faster tempos. Gaining widespread popularity through social media platforms like TikTok, drift phonk became synonymous with the broader phonk genre, often overshadowing its original sound. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SpaceGhostPurrp
Markese Money Rolle (born April 1, 1991),Fri, Crossfade. (June 8, 2012Best of Miami 2012 – Best Solo Musician: SpaceGhostPurrp Blogs.miaminewtimes.com. Retrieved on November 4, 2013. known professionally as SpaceGhostPurrp, is an American rapper and producer from Miami, Florida. He is the founder of the now-defunct American hip hop group Raider Klan, as well as a co-founder of the Black Money Boys. Successful Raider Klan members and associates that SpaceGhostPurrp worked with include Denzel Curry, Robb Banks, Pouya, Chris Travis, Yung Simmie, and Xavier Wulf. SGP gathered a following in the underground hip hop scene through mixtapes, producing, and his work with other underground artists. He has produced tracks for Juicy J, Lil Uzi Vert, Wiz Khalifa, Robb Banks, ASAP Mob, and Lil Tracy, among others. On June 12, 2012, his debut studio album '' Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp'' was released. Since 2012, SpaceGhostPurrp has released over 60 mixtapes and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Celsius
Ryan Celsius (stylized as R y a n C e l s i u s °) is the pseudonym of a Washington, D.C.–based music curator, disc jockey, video artist, music producer and YouTuber. His YouTube channel features visual mixtapes, combining underground hip hop, phonk and lo-fi tracks with nostalgic anime and movie visuals. ''Trappin in Japan'', which began in 2017, is among the channel's most popular series. Career Based in Washington, D.C., Ryan Celsius began producing music and making videos in 2005. The same year, his production hardware was stolen, and he lost all the music and videos created. Celsius stated that the event made him stop producing music for eight years. In the early 2010s, Celsius got interested in the vaporwave culture, including vaportrap and simpsonwave. He opened his YouTube channel in 2011 as a "personal project". The channel's video mixtapes combine underground phonk, trap and hip hop music with nostalgic visuals from popular anime clips and movies. Most of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Spanish Fly
DJ Spanish Fly (born Antonio D. Kimbrough January 16, 1970) is an American DJ, rapper, writer, and music producer from Memphis, Tennessee. Known as the "Godfather of Memphis Rap," he is credited with pioneering the Memphis rap scene and influencing the development of the phonk genre. DJ Spanish Fly also introduced the " jooking" dance style. Early life DJ Spanish Fly was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, in the South Memphis neighborhood of Clementine, located near Elvis Presley Blvd. Growing up in a city with a rich musical heritage, he was exposed to blues, soul, and funk, which significantly influenced his musical development. Career Spanish Fly began his career in the mid-1980s, DJing at local parties and clubs. He was part of the "True Blue Cru," a group known for its dedication to hip-hop and unique promotional methods. His early performances were marked by beatboxing, rapping, and mixing, which led to his residency at Club No Name, a key venue in Memphis. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memphis Rap
Memphis rap, also known as Memphis hip hop, or Memphis horrorcore, is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-late 1980s. Characteristics Memphis rap has been has been characterized as being low budget, using repetitive vocal hooks and a "distorted", lo-fi soundscape that uses the Roland TR-808 drum machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. Drum machines may imitate drum kits or other percussion instruments, or produce unique sounds, such as synthesized electronic tones. A d ... and minimal synth melodies. The genre commonly features double time Rapping#Flow, flows with Triplet (music), triplet flows, and routinely uses samples ranging from soul music, soul and funk to horror film scores and classical music, as well as hooks from songs by related rappers in the same genre, although DIY ethic#Music, DIY production without sampling is common as well. Becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three 6 Mafia
Three 6 Mafia is an American hip-hop group from Memphis, Tennessee, formed in 1991. Emerging as a horror-themed underground hip-hop group, they went on to enjoy mainstream success. The group's 1995 debut album ''Mystic Stylez'' became an influential cult classic. They have released music on independent labels such as Prophet Entertainment and their own Hypnotize Minds label, as well as Relativity Records, Relativity, Loud Records, Loud, and Columbia Records. Two of their albums are RIAA-certified platinum certification, platinum: ''When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1'' (2000) and ''Most Known Unknown'' (2005), with the latter featuring their hit single "Stay Fly". In 2006 the group won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards for their song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from the film ''Hustle & Flow''. The group's latest studio album, ''Last 2 Walk'', was released in 2008. Three 6 Mafia's worldwide album sales stand at 5.5 million as of 2016. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, Popular music, mainstream popular music culture. Underground styles lack the commercial success of popular music movements, and may involve the use of avant-garde or abrasive approaches. Underground music may be perceived as expressing sincerity and creative freedom in opposition to those practices deemed formulaic or market-driven. Notions of individuality and non-conformity are also commonly deployed. The term has been applied to artists in styles such as psychedelic music, psychedelia, punk music, punk, alternative rock, electronica, industrial music, and wider strains of experimental music. Overview The term "underground music" has been applied to various artistic movements, for instance the psychedelic music movement of the mid-1960s, but the term has in more recent decades come to be defined by any musicians who tend to avoid the trappings of the mainstream commercial music industry. Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G-funk
G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily influenced by the synthesizer-heavy 1970s funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic (aka P-Funk), often incorporated through samples or re-recordings. It is represented by commercially successful albums such as Dr. Dre's '' The Chronic'' (1992), Snoop Dogg's '' Doggystyle'' (1993), and 2Pac's '' All Eyez on Me'' (1996). Characteristics G-funk, which uses funk with an artificially altered tempo, incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, heavy use of the snare drum, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead. G-funk is typically set at between 90 and 100 BPM. The lyrical content depended on the artist; it could consist of sex, drug use (especially marijuana), love for a city, and love for friends. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronicles Of SpaceGhostPurrp
Chronicles may refer to: * Books of Chronicles in the Bible * Chronicle, chronological histories * ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', a novel series by C. S. Lewis * ''The Chronicles of Prydain'', a novel series by Lloyd Alexander. * ''Holinshed's Chronicles'', the collected works of Raphael Holinshed * ''The Idhun Chronicles'', a Netflix anime-style series based on the ''Idhún's Memories'' book trilogy by Laura Gallego * ''Book of Chronicles'', an alternate name for the ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' of 1493 * '' Chronicles: Volume One'', Bob Dylan's autobiography * ''Chronicles'' (magazine), a conservative magazine from the Charlemagne Institute * ''Chronicles'' (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set of the ''Magic: The Gathering'' trading card game * Froissart's ''Chronicles'', a prose history of the Hundred Years' War written in the 14th century by Jean Froissart * '' Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles'', an upcoming Netflix CGI-animated series loosely based on the ''Usagi Yojimbo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Ugly Mane
Travis Miller (born May 13, 1984), best known professionally as Lil Ugly Mane, is an American musician, rapper, singer, and record producer. Noted for his diverse style, introspective lyrics, and various side projects, Miller's work spans a wide range of genres, including experimental hip hop, black metal, lo-fi music, indie rock, and free jazz. He has also produced under the alias Shawn Kemp, and has recorded under the names Bedwetter and Vudmurk. Miller began his performing career in the 2000s in the noise and punk circles of Richmond, Virginia, though his published work includes pieces from as early as 1999. He first gained wider recognition in the early 2010s through his work with Florida hip hop collective Raider Klan and his debut album '' Mista Thug Isolation'' in 2012. ''Mista Thug Isolation'' drew influence from East Coast hip hop, Memphis rap, horrorcore, and chopped and screwed music, and has since been hailed as a pivotal work in the underground hip hop scen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chopped And Screwed
Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a genre of hip-hop music and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and DJing. It was pioneered by DJ Screw, and became a staple in the Houston hip hop scene in the 1990's. The screwed technique involves slowing the tempo of a song down to 60 and 70 quarter-note beats per minute and applying techniques such as skipping beats, record scratching, stop-time and affecting portions of the original composition to create a "chopped-up" variant of the material. History 1990: Creation Preceding the late 1990s, most Southern hip hop was upbeat and fast, like Miami bass and Memphis, which was inspired by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force with their groundbreaking track " Planet Rock". Unlike its southern musical counterparts Houston's rap style has consistently remained slower, even in the beginning of Houston hip hop, as can be heard on the earliest Houston based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
