Cloud Rap
Anchor moment: Walker Chambliss coins 'cloud rap' to describe Lil B and Main Attrakionz — sub-genre gets a name
Musical signatures
Hazy, ambient, often pitched-down vocal samples and washed-out synth pads; minimal trap-derived drum programming; reverb-drenched, dreamlike atmospheres; lyrically introspective, abstract, or flexing — often delivered in a detached, half-sung cadence.
Pioneers
- lil-b
- asap-rocky
- clams-casino
- main-attrakionz
- spaceghostpurrp
Associated scenes
- soundcloud-era
Moments in this sub-genre 1
Notes
Term widely credited to Main Attrakionz and Clams Casino's productions for Lil B and A$AP Rocky circa 2010–2011; the style was incubated on early-2010s blog and Tumblr cultures.
Citations 2
- B
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