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

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Heard

Crunk style · 1997–

Snap keeps crunk’s Atlanta club chant and 808 and thins them to a snap-on-two-and-four dance grid.

Influence
Hip-hop genre · 1973–

Snap is hip-hop’s Atlanta ringtone-and-dance child: same MC and club market, a thinned snap-on-two-and-four dialect.

Influence

Snap

style · 2005–2009

Also called snap music, snap rap

Kind of Hip-hop

Mid-2000s Atlanta club rap: sparse snap-on-two-and-four, cheap synth, and a dance-instruction chant (D4L, Dem Franchize Boyz). It is a style of hip-hop. It hears Crunk for the Atlanta shout-and-808 club. Chart landings are snap pop. Miami bass waits one step (crunk). Trap leftover as a contemporaneous Atlanta sibling, not a parent. Hyphy leftover as a Bay Area sibling. Ringtone rap leftover. Southern rap remains a leftover bin.

Listen

  1. Laffy Taffy D4L (2005) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It Dem Franchize Boyz (2006) YouTube · Spotify
  3. It's Goin' Down Yung Joc (2006) YouTube · Spotify
  4. Crank That (Soulja Boy) Soulja Boy Tell'em (2007) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  5. Ms. New Booty Bubba Sparxxx feat. Ying Yang Twins (2006) YouTube · Spotify

Passed on

Pop genre · 1958–

Mid-2000s pop takes snap’s backbeat finger-snap and dance-instruction chant as a ringtone chart dialect.

Influence

Crunk → Snap

meter and grooveperformance practicefunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus2005–2007recordingdanceradio

Mechanism

Snap keeps crunk’s Atlanta club chant and 808 and thins them to a snap-on-two-and-four dance grid. Strength high. Hip-hop as an umbrella parent is hip hop snap; this hop is the local crunk afterlife.

Evidence

D4L / Dem Franchize Boyz against Lil Jon-era crunk (Grove, Starr).

Debate

Whether this is already crunk. The club shout is crunk’s; the ringtone-thin snap beat is snap’s.

Mediators

artist: Dem Franchize Boyz

Hip-hop → Snap

performance practiceform and structurefunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus2005–2007recordingradiooral

Mechanism

Snap is hip-hop’s Atlanta ringtone-and-dance child: same MC and club market, a thinned snap-on-two-and-four dialect. Strength high. Crunk is the local club parent; this hop is the umbrella rap grammar.

Evidence

D4L / Dem Franchize Boyz against the mid-2000s rap chart (Starr, Grove).

Debate

Whether snap is only a dance tag. The named Atlanta school and the backbeat snap make a node.

Mediators

artist: D4L

Snap → Pop

meter and grooveperformance practiceform and structurestrength: highwell documented2005–2007recordingradio

Mechanism

Mid-2000s pop takes snap’s backbeat finger-snap and dance-instruction chant as a ringtone chart dialect. Strength high. crunk pop is the louder shout hop; this file is the thinned snap recoding.

Evidence

Laffy Taffy and Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Starr, Grove).

Debate

Whether Crank That is already dance-pop. The snap-and-instruction job is snap’s; the singles factory is pop’s.

Mediators

artist: Soulja Boy Tell'em