Chopper
Anchor moment: Twista enters Guinness World Records as the fastest English-speaking rapper
Musical signatures
Hyper-fast, double- and triple-time lyrical delivery (often exceeding 700 syllables per minute) over mid-tempo boom-bap or melodic Midwest production; intricate internal-rhyme schemes; often sung-rapped melodic hooks (Bone Thugs lineage).
Pioneers
- bone-thugs-n-harmony
- twista
- tech-n9ne
- krayzie-bone
Associated scenes
- midwest-chopper-scene
Moments in this sub-genre 1
Notes
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 'E. 1999 Eternal' (1995) and Twista's 'Adrenaline Rush' (1997) anchor the foundational period; Tech N9ne extended the style commercially from the Kansas City underground throughout the 2000s.
Citations 2
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