Rap metal

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Rap metal

Development phase: 1980s
Place of origin: United States
Stylistic precursors
Heavy Metal · Hip-Hop · Alternative Metal · Rap Rock · Thrash Metal
Instruments typical of the genre
Rap · Electric Guitar · Electric Bass · Drums · Sampler · Turntablism
Derived forms
Nu metal

Rap metal is a sub-genre consisting of rap rock and alternative metal and combines hip-hop with heavy metal . It usually includes heavy metal guitar riffs , funk metal , raped vocals, and sometimes turntablism . The term rapcore is often used in reference to rap metal, especially in European countries.

history

Origin and early developments (1980s - early 1990s)

With their EP I'm the Man , the band Anthrax ( pictured ) is considered one of the pioneers of rap metal.

Rap metal emerged from rap rock , a genre that mixes instrumental elements of hip-hop with rock music . The genre finds its roots in hip-hop artists who adopt heavy metal elements like the Beastie Boys , Cypress Hill , Esham and Run-DMC and rock bands which combine heavy metal and hip-hop influences like 24-7 Spyz and Faith No more .

Scott Ian of Anthrax (who was instrumental in creating the genre) believes that Rage Against the Machine invented the genre. However, the band Urban Dance Squad merged rap and metal before Rage Against the Machine in 1986.

In 1987 the heavy metal band Anthrax combined hip-hop with heavy metal for their EP I'm the Man . Then they worked in 1991 together with Public Enemy on a remake of the song Bring the Noise by Public Enemy, which combined hip-hop with thrash metal . Also in 1991 the hip-hop group PID took part in the song Spineless (album: Psycho Surgery ) by the thrash metal band Tourniquet . The following year, rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot teamed up with the band Metal Church for his single Iron Man from 1988, which was vaguely based on Black Sabbath 's single of the same name . In 1990 the rapper Ice-T founded the heavy metal band Body Count . During the Lollapalooza tour in 1991, the band played half rap songs and half metal songs. Stuck Mojo and Clawfinger , which were both founded in 1989, are also considered pioneers of the genre.

Mainstream popularity (1990s - early 2000s)

In the 1990s, rap metal became a popular style of music. For example, the song Epic by Faith No More was a great success and reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 hit parade. In 1993, the Judgment Night soundtrack was released, which included several collaborative works by rappers and rock bands. The album Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine of 1996 rose on the Billboard 200 chart at number one, and her third studio album, The Battle of Los Angeles , debuted also in first place and was able to sell 430,000 panels in the first week. Every album by the band has at least been awarded platinum. Biohazard played on the main stage at Ozzfest alongside Ozzy Osbourne , Slayer , Danzig , Fear Factory and Sepultura . In support of their album, Biohazard toured with Suicidal Tendencies as co-headliners on a short European tour.

On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released the album Devil Without a Cause by rap metal musician Kid Rock along with the single Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 the Old School) and Kid Rock took part in the Vans Warped Tour to make his album support. Welcome 2 the Party and Devil Without a Cause sold slowly, although the 1998 Warped Tour in Northampton, Massachusetts sparked regional interest in Massachusetts and New England . This interest led to high airtime, the single I Am The Bullgod , on Massachusetts rock radio stations WZLX and WAAF in the summer and fall of 1998 . In early December 1998, while working as a DJ in a club, he met MTV presenter Carson Daly and became friends with him. Kid Rock was able to persuade Daly to get him an appearance on MTV, which then took place on December 28, 1998 on the station in the show MTV Fashionable Loudin in Miami, Florida . He got attention by performing and even stole the show from Jay-Z. In May, Kid Rock's sales rose with the release of its third single, Bawitdaba, and in April 1999, Devil Without a Cause received the gold record . As predicted by him, platinum followed the next month. Kid Rock's first big tour was the Limptropolis tour, where he was with Staind Opener for Limp Bizkit . He was able to consolidate his fame with his appearance at the Woodstock 1999 Festival on July 24th, at which point he had already achieved double platinum. The next single, Cowboy , a mix of Southern Rock, Country and Rap, was an even bigger hit and even made it into the Top 40. The song even became the theme song for WCW wrestler Jeff Jarrett . Kid Rock's next single, the blues ballad Only God Knows Why , was the album's biggest hit, reaching number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 hit parade. The single was one of the first songs to use auto-tune . When the last single from the album Wasting Time was released, the album had already sold seven million times. Devil Without a Cause was platinum by the RIAA a total of eleven times by April 17, 2003. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album sold a total of 9.3 million times as of 2013. Kid Rock was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammys, but lost to Christina Aguilera . With Bawitdaba he was nominated in the category Best Hard Rock Performance, but won the song Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica . In 1998 Ice Cube released his album War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) , which contained elements of Nu Metal and Rap Metal on some tracks. The album hit number 7 on Billboard 200 when it launched and sold 180,000 copies in the first week.

Rap metal band Limp Bizkit

The genre began to receive criticism at its commercial peak in 1999, particularly after the troubled Woodstock 1999 Festival, which featured many rap metal and nu / alternative metal artists. The pop-punk musician Jeff Brogowski told the newspaper The Morning Call in 1999, "This macho rap-metal bands are just very malicious. See what happened at Woodstock (last summer). All the violence, the looting and the fires. Something strange is going on. Maybe it has something to do with economic prosperity. It's going to be worse than it was back in the 80s when so many bands were so cocky. "

The 1999 album by nu-metal band Limp Bizkit Significant Other went to number 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 643,874 copies in the first week of its release. Another 335,000 copies were sold in the second week. The following album by the band Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water set a record for the highest sales of a rock album in the first week after release with over a million copies sold in the United States. 400,000 of those sales were from day one, making it the fastest-selling rock album of all time. The record was previously by Pearl Jam with the album Vs. held for seven years. In the same year, Papa Roach's label debut Infest became a platinum hit. Cypress Hill incorporated heavy metal influences into their 2000 album Skull & Bones , which included six tracks featuring rappers B-Real and Sen Dog from a band made up of Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers and Dino Cazares and Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk . B-Real also formed the rap metal band Kush with Wolbers, Fear Factory drummer Raymond Herrera and Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter . According to B-Real, Kush is more aggressive than other bands in the genre. SX-10 , which was founded by Sen Dog in 1996, also performed with rap rock and rap metal.

Rap metal band POD's album The Fundamental Elements of Southtown went platinum in 2000 and was ranked 143rd best-selling album of 2000. In late 2000, Linkin Park released their debut album Hybrid Theory , which was both the best-selling debut album by an artist in the 21st century Century, when it became the best-selling nu-metal album of all time. The album was also the best-selling album in all genres in 2001 and achieved higher sales than the works of well-known pop artists such as the Backstreet Boys or N'Sync , which gave the band a Grammy Award for their second single Crawling . The fourth single, In the End , released in late 2001, became one of the most recognizable songs of the first decade of the 21st century. The rap rock band Crazy Town also achieved mainstream success in the nu-metal genre with their 1999 album The Gift of Game . In particular, her number one hit Butterfly , which landed at number one on many charts including the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2001, stayed on the Hot 100 charts for 23 weeks. It was also number one on the Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Dance Singles hit lists, as well as number six on the Rhythmic Top 49, number two on the Top 40 mainstream charts and number four on the Top 40 tracks. Her album The Gift of Game reached number nine on the Billboard 200 hit list. The album sold more than 2.5 million times worldwide. That year, Saliva's Every Six Seconds came out, which also became a commercial success and debuted at number six on the Billboard 200. In 2001, POD's Satellite album went triple platinum and reached number six on the Billboard 200 chart.

See also

Individual evidence

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