What's poppin yall, if you're a 2000s baby you may have missed the era of crunk
music; or were just incredibly young but it was a very unique time in hip-hop.
Some of you are probably asking what the hell does the word crunk even mean and there's
people that say it's crazy and drunk and a bunch of other definitions but it is its
own word; it basically means turnt if we were to compare it to a modern slang that people
are using.
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Crunk music started in the south in the late 1990s and is, or was a subgenre of rap music.
It took inspiration of Miami bass music in the 80s and dance elements.
This type of music was intended to be played at clubs and consisted of hard hitting bass,
heavy drums, and just shouting into the song.
Many of the drum machines and rhythms were known in dance genres like house music.
Most crunk songs would use four bars of music made by electric drums and synthesizers that
would loop throughout the song and of course the Roland TR-808 machine being the most popular
rhythm composer.
If you are a younger rap listener and you have any old heads hating telling you that
today's music has no lyrical content just point them in the direction of crunk music
and they should shut their mouth right after that but knowing them they will likely stumble
and try to make some excuses.
Lyrics were not the point of this music; it was to get you moving, to get you dancing,
and to of course get you crunk.
The earliest mention of the word crunk in rap music was in 1993 by Outkast on their
song Player's Ball and in their song Hootie Hoo off their Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
album.
The first crunk song to really hit the charts peaking at #29 was Tear Da Club Up by Three
Six Mafia released in 1997 and that same year crunk was given a name when Lil Jon and The
EastSide Boyz released their debut album Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album.
You can't mention crunk music without mentioning Lil Jon; they go hand in hand.
His production was on most of the biggest hits in the subgenre as well as his rapping.
It wouldn't be until the early 2000s that crunk music would spread like wildfire all
over the south and the rest of the country.
Lean Wit It Rock Wit It by Dem Franchise boys released in 2001 and had that same electronic
synth and bass as most crunk songs; it would go #1.
The most memorable song and the song that really put crunk music on the map was of course
"Get Low" by Lil Jon and the eastside boyz.
This song would top the charts peaking at #2 on billboards hot 100 and was not only
in every single club but blasting out of every single car with the bass shaking the marble
games we used to be playing as kids.
2003 was another big year and ascension with songs like Never Scared by Bonecrusher featuring
both TI and Killer Mike
and Salt Shaker by the Ying Yang Twinz featuring Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz.
Also releasing would be a staple in the crunk subgenre Lil Scrappy with his song head bussa
featuring Lil Jon.
In 2004 though crunk music would get its first number one hit single; with Lil Jon producing
and featuring along with Ludacris on the song Yeah by Usher on his Confessions album.
It would shoot to number one on the charts and sit there for fourteen weeks!
Until this day this song is still a classic banger that can be played and will be played
for many more years to come.
Lil Scrappy would also work with the Crime Mob on one of the most memorable songs Knuck
if You Buck
whose beat was used for the juju on that beat challenge that was viral a year or two ago.
Crunk was starting to be heard everywhere; even songs that weren't really rap.
Like I mentioned earlier he worked with Usher for Yeah and what was called crunk&B a mixture
of RnB and Crunk Music.
Another example of this is Chris Brown's hit song Run It featuring Juelz Santana
produced by Scott Storch has all the elements of a crunk song.
Goodies by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo
off her debut album in 2004 is produced by Lil Jon and shares that same bass and crunk
elements in an RnB song that isn't as hard hitting as Chris Brown's Run It.
Goodies would top the charts climbing to #1 on the Hot 100 giving Lil Jon his second number
one song.
It's hard to describe how dominant this sound was back then; think of it as trap music
right now.
Everybody heard at least a song from it and it was young people's music of choice for
a very long time.
In 2005 after the release of the song Damn by Youngbloodz
people seemed to be getting tired of crunk music's repetitive yelling, simple words,
instrumentals, and just how saturated it had become over time.
D4L's Laffy Taffy would top the charts at #1 next year in 2006 but it wasn't as hard
hitting as the usual crunk from 2003 to 2005 and some people wouldn't even consider it
to be crunk.
Crunk would slowly fizzle out from the rest of the country while still being hot in the
south in areas like Memphis and Atlanta, but the last song to really succeed that had crunk
inspiration was none other than Soulja Boy's Crank Dat that would go #1 and be nominated
for a grammy.
After that crunk was pretty much dead in the water and a new genre was bubbling up from
the south again; spearheaded by rappers like TI and Gucci Mane and that is still dominating
rap right now, and that's trap music.
Lil Jon still had success though and no surprise that it would be in the dance/edm genre with
the hugely successful hit song Turn Down For What with DJ Snake in 2014.
While crunk may be dead as a whole; Lil Jon hasn't abandoned it's style and stays
true to the type of music that brought him his initial success, he's the father of
crunk and is still touring and seeing plenty of success from the seeds he planted in the
late 90s.
Lemme know in the comments; what was your favorite crunk song growing up and if you
never heard of crunk did yall like any of the song clips I played here today?
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