Crunk

:This article is about the hip hop music subgenre and its related state of the mind. For information on the swear word, see Krunk (profanity).

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Hip hop music - Swear word - Krunk (profanity)

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Crunk is a specific type of hip hop music, based out of the southern United States, particularly Atlanta, Georgia, and

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Hip hop music - Southern - United States - Atlanta, Georgia

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Memphis, Tennessee. While most crunk-style music could be called Dirty South or southern rap, the reverse is not necessarily true. Eightball & MJG for example have a more Southern funk sound.

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Memphis, Tennessee - Dirty South - Southern rap - Eightball & MJG - Funk

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Unlike the East Coast style of Hip-Hop, Crunk (sometimes spelled Krunk) music is a mix of repetitive chants and drum machine rhythms, the Roland TR-808 being especially popular. Many of the drum machines and the rhythms they produce were previously well-known in specialty genres of dance music. The delivery of the lyrics, as with other Southern rap, is based on a rhythmic bounce which is very effective in clubs. In fact, several crunk songs have been banned in venues due to how wild the crowds can get.

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Drum machine - Roland TR-808

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Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz often claim to be the Kings of Crunk while Lil' Scrappy is referred to as the Prince of Crunk.

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Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz - Lil' Scrappy

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Chyna Whyte is sometimes known as the Queen of Crunk, and Ciara is often referred to as the Princess of Crunk. While these artists have embodied the term crunk in the hip-hop industry, the term was more widely exposed when Lil' Jon named his albums "Kings of Krunk" and "Crunk Juice".

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Chyna Whyte - Ciara

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In the hip hop world, crunk rappers have been criticized for lacking any lyrical content and all using essentially the same beats and styles. Others, while agreeing that the subject of the lyrics are all more or less identical, say that the music is specifically designed for the rowdy clubs in which it thrives, and serves this purpose admirably. In any case, crunk has established itself as a major sub-division of hip-hop and should enjoy greater success due to the increased number of crunk albums being released.

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Crunk Artists include:

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• Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz
• Lil' Scrappy
• Trillville
• Ying Yang Twins
• Chyna Whyte
• Bone Crusher
• Three 6 Mafia
• Ciara
• White Dawg
• Pitbull
• 8 Ball & MJG
• Yo Gotti
• Bo Hagon
• Youngbloodz
 
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