Emo Rap
Anchor moment: Lil Peep releases 'Crybaby' mixtape — emo rap coalesces
Musical signatures
Trap drum programming layered with sampled or live electric-guitar arpeggios and chord progressions drawn from 2000s emo and pop-punk; sung and half-sung melodic delivery, often heavily Auto-Tuned; lyrically focused on depression, heartbreak, anxiety, addiction, and self-harm.
Pioneers
- lil-peep
- juice-wrld
- xxxtentacion
- trippie-redd
- lil-uzi-vert
Associated scenes
- soundcloud-era
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Notes
Lil Peep's mixtapes (2015–2017) are widely cited as the canonical breakthrough; the genre was deeply tied to SoundCloud and the early-to-mid 2010s 'SoundCloud rap' wave.
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