2000s in American music

subgenre of hip-hop

music aesthetic

Crunk is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success during the mid 2000s. Crunk is often up-tempo and one of Southern hip hop's more dance and club oriented subgenres. An archetypal crunk track frequently uses a main groove consisting of layered keyboard synths, a drum machine clapping rhythm, heavy basslines, and shouting vocals, often in a call and response manner. The term "crunk" was also used throughout the 2000s as a blanket term to denote any style of Southern hip hop, a side effect of the genre's breakthrough to the mainstream. The word de

regional subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s

heavy metal music movement

blanket term for a regional genre of American hip-hop music that emerged in the Southern United States

subgenre of hip-hop