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The focal point of crunk is more often the beats and music than the lyrics therein. Crunk rappers, however, often shout and scream their lyrics, creating an aggressive, almost heavy, style of hip-hop. While other subgenres of hip-hop address sociopolitical or personal concerns, crunk is almost exclusively party music, favoring call and response hip-hop slogans in lieu of more substantive approaches.<ref>[http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/miller/8b.htm Dirty Decade: Rap Music from the South: 1997-2007]</ref> |
The focal point of crunk is more often the beats and music than the lyrics therein. Crunk rappers, however, often shout and scream their lyrics, creating an aggressive, almost heavy, style of hip-hop. While other subgenres of hip-hop address sociopolitical or personal concerns, crunk is almost exclusively party music, favoring call and response hip-hop slogans in lieu of more substantive approaches.<ref>[http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/miller/8b.htm Dirty Decade: Rap Music from the South: 1997-2007]</ref> |
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The word "Crunk" was originally created by M. Gainey, and then made famous by Master P, Lil Jon, among others. |
The word "Crunk" was originally created by M. Gainey, and then made famous by Master P, Lil Jon, among others. GM3 select Gainey did not make the word crunk up. He might of been drunk and thought he made it up but really heard it in a song not realizing thats were he got it from. GM3 select Gainey also has a weird fetish for drinking in bath robes. |
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==Etymology== |
==Etymology== |
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Revision as of 16:51, 21 May 2009
| Crunk | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Southern hip hop Electronic dance music Disco |
| Cultural origins | Early 1990s, Dixie, USA |
| Typical instruments | Drum machine PC vocals, Synthesizer |
| Fusion genres | |
| Crunk&b - Aquacrunk - Electrocrunk - Eurocrunk - Crunkcore - Screamocrunk - Jigg | |
| Other topics | |
| Hyphy | |
Crunk is a style of music that originated from southern hip hop and electronic dance music in the early 1990s. The style was pioneered and commercialized by such artists as Three 6 Mafia , Lil Jon in Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album, and Master P.
Characteristics
Looped, stripped-down drum machine rhythms are usually used. The Roland TR-808 and 909 are among the most popular. The drum machines are usually accompanied by simple, repeated synthesizer melodies and heavy bass stabs. The tempo of the music is somewhat slower than hip-hop, around the speed of reggaeton.
The focal point of crunk is more often the beats and music than the lyrics therein. Crunk rappers, however, often shout and scream their lyrics, creating an aggressive, almost heavy, style of hip-hop. While other subgenres of hip-hop address sociopolitical or personal concerns, crunk is almost exclusively party music, favoring call and response hip-hop slogans in lieu of more substantive approaches.[1]
The word "Crunk" was originally created by M. Gainey, and then made famous by Master P, Lil Jon, among others. GM3 select Gainey did not make the word crunk up. He might of been drunk and thought he made it up but really heard it in a song not realizing thats were he got it from. GM3 select Gainey also has a weird fetish for drinking in bath robes.
Etymology
Traditionally, crunk meant a hoarse, harsh cry.[2] The term is often used as slang to mean intoxicated. Folk etymology suggests the modern usage of crunk originated as a portmanteau of the words "crazy" and "drunk" or having been "cranked up" to a level of excitability at which one becomes "crunk". But it is also defined as being drunk and high at the same time being a portmanteau of "drunk" and the slang for marijuana, "chronic." However, Rapper Lil Jon defined crunk as a "state of heightened excitement" to make it sound like a more commercial feeling.
The first known use of the word "crunk" was in 1972 by Dr. Seuss in his book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
Webster's Dictionary defines "crunk" as a "word of fluctuating meaning used during the 1990s in lyrics of the rap groups OutKast and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms."[1]
Notable acts
- Lil Jon (notable pioneer)
- Three 6 Mafia (founders/pioneers)
- Master P (pioneer)
- Ying Yang Twins (pioneers)
- Pitbull
- Ciara
- Mystikal
- Unk
- Lil Scrappy
- Young Buck
- Trillville
- UGK
- Pastor Troy
- Al Kapone
- P$C
- Gucci Mane
- Petey Pablo
- Slim Thug
- UTP
- Yo Gotti
- Youngbloodz
- Family Force 5
See also
References
- ^ Dirty Decade: Rap Music from the South: 1997-2007
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary