The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Chopped and screwed style · 1991–

Cloud rap keeps screw’s slowed, pitched-down, thickened mix as an internet texture.

Influence
Hip-hop genre · 1973–

Cloud rap keeps hip-hop’s verse–hook and mixtape public and recodes them as a washed, pitched internet climate.

Influence

Cloud rap

style · 2010–

Also called based music

Kind of Hip-hop

Early-2010s internet hip-hop: washed, pitched, or smeared beats and a dazed vocal (Lil B, early A$AP Rocky). It hears Chopped and screwed for the slowed, thickened mix and Hip-hop for the verse–hook mixtape job. It already gives Emo rap the washed internet-rap climate recoded as SoundCloud confession. Witch-house leftover. Chillwave leftover. Continuations of the same blog school stay on this node. Empty extra Received/Given is historically checked.

Listen

  1. I'm God Lil B / Clams Casino (2011) YouTube · Spotify
  2. Bitch I'm Luscious Lil B (2011)
  3. Houston Old Head A$AP Rocky (2011) YouTube · Spotify
  4. Peso A$AP Rocky (2011) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  5. Motivation Clams Casino (2011) YouTube · Spotify

Passed on

Emo rap style · 2015–

Emo rap takes cloud rap’s washed, pitched internet mix and sung-rap daze and recodes them as diary-hook SoundCloud tracks.

Influence

Chopped and screwed → Cloud rap

timbre and productionmeter and groovestrength: highwell documented2010–2013recordingoral

Mechanism

Cloud rap keeps screw’s slowed, pitched-down, thickened mix as an internet texture. Strength high. Lean culture is not a node; this hop is the Houston mix.

Evidence

Early A$AP Houston citations; Lil B’s washed tapes; Starr and Grove on the screw afterlife.

Debate

Whether this is only a production fad. The named 2010s school makes a child node.

Mediators

artist: A$AP Rocky; artist: DJ Screw

Hip-hop → Cloud rap

form and structureperformance practicefunction and contextstrength: mediumscholarly consensus2010–2013recordingradio

Mechanism

Cloud rap keeps hip-hop’s verse–hook and mixtape public and recodes them as a washed, pitched internet climate. Strength medium. chopped and screwed cloud rap is the slow-smear hop; this edge is the rap-school parent. Witch-house leftover as a neighboring blog texture.

Evidence

Lil B and early A$AP Rocky as hip-hop mixtape MCs in a new mix; Starr and Grove on 2010s style names inside hip-hop.

Debate

Whether cloud rap is only a mix tag. The washed blog-rap school is named; the MC job remains hip-hop’s.

Mediators

artist: Lil B; artist: A$AP Rocky

Cloud rap → Emo rap

timbre and productionmelodyfunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus2015–2018recordingradio

Mechanism

Emo rap takes cloud rap’s washed, pitched internet mix and sung-rap daze and recodes them as diary-hook SoundCloud tracks. Strength high. Trap leftover as a neighboring 808 dialect, not this hop. 2000s emo leftover as a guitar scene, not a parent this sitting.

Evidence

Lil Peep and XXXTentacion against Clams Casino / Lil B climate; Starr on SoundCloud rap as a named 2010s school.

Debate

Whether this is still cloud rap. The based/blog wash remains cloud rap’s; the named emo-confessional SoundCloud school is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: Lil Peep; artist: XXXTentacion