Crunk
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Crunk is a subgenre of hip-hop that originated in the southern United States, particularly the Atlanta, Georgia area. Crunk combines elements of the Dirty South, electronic dance music and bass music into a very electronic, club-ready sound that, unlike the Dirty South, forgoes influences of soul and funk. This genre is formative for the nowadays very popular Trap.
The founders and first commercially successful artists in the early 1990s were Three 6 Mafia, Lil Jon with Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album, and Master P. Crunk reached the German mainstream audience in 2004 when R'n'B singer Usher's single Yeah!, produced by Lil Jon, spent four weeks at #1 in the German charts.
Crunk is simply produced: It is mostly based on drummachine-generated synth rhythms (notably the use of a Roland TR-808) and heavily accented deep bass. Simple keyboard and synth sounds (often garish SuperSaw tones on newer tracks) are added as sound effects. Over these instrumentals there is rapping, singing and - especially typical for crunk - screaming.
The term crunk comes from the English "crazy" and "drunk". The exclamation "Get Crunk", on the other hand, comes from the word crank "...because if you're going to be crank you might as well be crunk." (quote from the movie "Hustle & Flow"). This exclamation is often combined with "Get Buck", i.e. "Get Crunk, Get Buck"; for example in the song by "Al Kapone" a well-known crunk rapper: "Get Crunk, Get Buck" or by Lil Scrappy in "No Problem".
Selection of representatives of the genre
Artists who helped found the style
- Lil Jon
- Three 6 Mafia
- Master P
- Ying Yang Twins
- White Dawg
Other artists
- Pitbull
- Mystical
- DJ Khaled
- Unk
- Lil Scrappy
- Young Buck
- Pastor Troy
- Tony D
- Family Force 5
- P$C
- Petey Pablo
- Slim Thug
- Chamillionaire
- Paul Wall
- bone crusher
- Dirrrty Franz
- 6ix9ine
- Duke Deuce
Crunk mixed with other genres
- Crunk'n'B is a mixture of R&B and crunk (e.g. Yeah! by Usher).
- Crunkchata is a neologism of Toby Love and is a mixture of Bachata and Crunk or Contemporary R&B (e.g. Stripper Pole by Pitbull & Toby Love).
- Reggaecrunk is a mixture of reggaeton and crunk (e.g. Chevere by Voltio & Notch)
- Crunkcore stands for a mixture of crunk and hardcore, where the lyrics are screamed or shouted (e.g. Brokencyde, Dot Dot Curve, Jakewolf).
