Cloud rap
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Stylistic origins | Ambient, chillwave, new-age, psychedelic music, experimental hip hop, chopped and screwed |
Cultural origins | Mid 2000s |
Typical instruments | Rapping, synthesizer, DAW |
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Cloud rap (also known as Trillwave)[1][2] is an experimental hip hop genre whose distinguishing features include ethereal, dreamlike beats (which often use wordless vocal samples, wherein singers harmonize or hold long notes, to produce a majestic effect) and abstracted, sometimes deliberately absurd, lyrics.
Artists described as cloud rap
- A$AP Rocky
- Bones
- Cities Aviv[3]
- Clams Casino[4]
- cLOUDDEAD[5]
- Dat Adam
- Deniro Farrar
- Denzel Curry
- Eric Dingus [6]
- Kitty
- Ledeni
- Lil B
- Main Attrakionz[7][8]
- OceanDub
- SpaceGhostPurrp[9]
- Spooky Black
- Travis Scott
- PLWindSky
- Deniro Farrar
- Viper[10]
- Yung Lean[11]
- Flatbush Zombies[5]
- The Underachievers
- Schoolboy Q
- PHARAOH
- german or austrian ones for ex. crack ignaz, yung hurn, Dat Adam or LGoony
See also
References
- ^ Colly, Joe. "Wiz Khalifa: Taylor Allderdice | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. pitchfork.com. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ Weingarten, Christopher (May–June 2012). "Louder than Bombs". SPIN: 78. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
- ^ Lymangrover, Jason. "Cities Aviv biography". Allmusic. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
- ^ Sharp, Elliott. Tapes "Daughn Gibosn - All Hell | Music Review". tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
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- ^ Caballero, Martín (August 25, 2013). "Eric Dingus - "512" (Chopped & Screwed Mixtape)". EARMILK. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ^ "We Got This". SPIN: 49. December 2011.
- ^ Gillespie, Blake (6 March 2012). "The Future: cLOUDLIFE is Main Attrakionz and cLOUDDEAD". Impose Magazine. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ Unicornmang. "SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: THe Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp | Music Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ "Viper - You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack Review". Sputnik Music December 2, 2014 Robert Lowe. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ Draut, Tim (July 18, 2014). "Yung Lean brings Sad Rap to The Independent". The Bay Bridged. Retrieved December 17, 2014.