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Digicore is an internet microgenre of hip-hop and electronic music that developed alongside hyperpop in the late 2010s and early 2020s. It draws on trap, emo rap, nightcore and cloud rap, and shares stylistic ground with Drain Gang and 100 gecs rather than PC Music's "bubblegum bass" artists.
Artist lonelee, founder of the record label teardrop digital, coined the modern use of "digicore" in late 2019 to replace the earlier term "draincore." Quinn was the first artist associated with lonelee's label.
Yungster Jack and David Shawty are widely credited as pioneers of digicore. BrooklynVegan credited the pair as "responsible for the Soundcloud scene's transition from emo rap to hyperpop."
The digicore scene traces to 2018, when a figure named Dalton started a Minecraft and Discord server that became a hub for artists such as Quinn, Kmoe, Glaive, Ericdoa and Midwxst. The style was originally called "draincore" before the name changed to "digicore" by 2019.
Digicore differs from hyperpop mainly through its heavier reliance on trap-based production, though the two scenes overlap. In 2025, NPR's Sheldon Pearce described hyperpop as digicore's "parent genre," writing that "digicore is hyperpop, but hyperpop isn't necessarily digicore."
Helix Tears and Novagang are two of digicore's founding SoundCloud collectives. Helix Tears was formed in 2018 by Blackwinterwells, and Novagang was formed between 2018 and 2019 by an artist known as Prblm.