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The Detroit Double Time style, the UK Drill aesthetic (even though that one's cauterizing as we speak probably), The Afro-Trap sound (basically dead or dying), Post-Gates Neo-Country Rap, "Broken Underground", the hyperdistorted sludgy 'metallic' realm of Soundcloud rap (facing danger of similar cauterization), The Valee Flow (which is starting to become its own genre at this rate).
That's all I can do at this minute it seems. The Detroit Double Time is however the big one because that informs SOB x RBE who are informing a lot of newer and younger California talents who are becoming the big new wave.
Stuff like this:
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bridges to stuff like this:
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and leads to stuff like this:
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Which in turn bounces back across to California resulting in this:
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And that has now gestated:
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On both sides too:
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The trick is in the run-on sentences, the moments of friction in the pockets of the beat, the erratic energy that can easily become a formula but becomes about dawdling and the unnecessary over emphasis on certain syllables or deliberate staggering. Everything appears to be slowing down again (or rather I can't remember examples of it being exceptionally brisk and higher BPMs to cite) but that's also because a lot of these guys get scooped and molded to slow down to fit current radios. When you're being asked to become lower key to suit the dirge, it naturally relies on you to calm not the others to excite.
I'm also imagining on a production edge people will note the roller-boogie/electro 80s tendencies and mutter how "we've done this before, the Afrika Bambataa shit" and the real trick is in moments where either that vibe gets put in extremes or married to the current downer modernity:
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Also this has mostly been contained in an axis of Detroit and the Bay Area but it's started to billow out and bleed into the nearby areas such as LA or Chicago
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