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With the help of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) here is closer look at some of my favorite hip hop sub generes.

Bounce Beats:
Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music, taking off in the early 1990s, but dating back to 1980s. It is characterized by call and response party chants and dance call-outs typically sung over the “Triggaman” (from the song “Drag Rap” by the Showboys) and/or “Brown Beat” samples. Nearly every second of the 1986 single “Drag Rap” has made its way into bounce jams: its opening chromatic tics, the immediately identifiable “Drag Rap” sample, the shouting out of “break” (emulated throughout OutKast’s “Stankonia”), the whistling breakdown, the vocoded “drag rap” vocals, and the minimal drum machine verse. Popular bounce artists include Juvenile and Mannie Fresh.

Hyphy Beats:
Hyphy (pronounced HI-FEE) is a style of music and dance primarily associated with the San Francisco Bay Area hip hop culture. Bay Area rapper Keak Da Sneak takes credit for coining the term when he was a young boy, as his mother would often tell him he was hyper and he would repeat the word “hyper” as “hyphy”.It is distinguished by gritty, pounding rhythms. Contrary to popular belief, the musical aspect of the movement has very few similarities to crunk music, as it is dictated by more uptempo beats. E-40 is seen by many in the Bay Area as the “door opener” to a much bigger movement yet to be exposed to the world in its entirety. Popular hyphy artists include E-40 and Keak Da Sneak.

G-Funk Beats:
G-funk (Gangsta-funk or Ghetto-funk) is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. G-funk (largely derived from slowing the tempo down of funk music) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-funk tunes, and a high portamento sine wave keyboard lead-a feature that became the genre’s notable trademark. Additionally, unlike other rap acts at the time that sampled heavily, G-funk often utilized only one or two samples per song. G-funk became the premier subgenre of mainstream hip hop for a span of nearly four years (from the release of Dr. Dre’s landmark debut, The Chronic, in 1992, to the collapse of the Los Angeles-based label, Death Row Records, in 1996).

Crunk Beats:
Crunk, based particularly on the eastern side of Atlanta, Georgia, and its birthplace of Memphis, Tennessee, has a high-energy and club-oriented feel. It’s vocal delivery usually involves hoarse chants and repetitive, simple refrains, similar to the style of late 20th Century minimalism which has the same repeating elements. Lyrics are based on a rhythmic bounce, which is very effective in a club environment. Looped drum machine rhythms are usually in the forefront of the mix, with the Roland TR-808 being especially popular. A typical crunk song uses 4 bars of music generated by electronic drums and synthesizers that repeat throughout the song, but sometimes includes a break towards the end of the song. Many of the drum machines and rhythms they produce were previously well known in specialty genres of dance music. Crunk also employs non-melodic sound effects such as whistles and synth blips.

Miami Bass Beats:
Miami bass (also known as booty music) is a type of hip hop music that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, known for applying the Roland TR-808 sustained kick drum, slightly higher dance tempos, and occasionally sexually explicit lyrical content. It is also characterized as using rhythms with a “stop start flavor” and “hissy” cymbals. Vocoders and what Maggotron referred to as the “thrombic boomulator” were used to produce the distinctive low-pitched and distorted Miani Bass style vocals. Miami Bass song sample: Me So Horny, by 2 Live Crew.

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