Curated category
2000s in music
- Internet rapIn 1997, Canibus dropped the track DJ Clue Freestyle and declared he would battle opponents on the net as well as in the flesh.
- House musicHouse music was born in the dark of Chicago's underground club scene, somewhere between a disco record and a drum machine.
- Nu metalNu metal arrived on the 18th of August 1998, when three albums dropped on the same day: Korn's Follow the Leader, Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause, and…
- Cloud rapCloud rap began with a castle in the clouds. In 2009, rapper Lil B sat down with music writer Noz for an interview. He pulled up a CGI image of a castle…
- CrunkcoreCrunkcore arrived in the mid-2000s as one of the stranger collisions in popular music. A microgenre known by at least four names - crunkcore, crunk punk…
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap began its life under a different name: reality rap. That original label tells you something honest about what the genre's founders believed they…
- Rap metalRap metal arrived not with a manifesto but with a question nobody had asked yet: what happens when you put a DJ and a shredding guitarist in the same room?
- EmoEmo is a genre of rock music that began as a small, passionate subculture in Washington, D.C., and grew into one of the defining sounds of the early…
- Contemporary R&BContemporary R&B has roots in the African-American musical communities of the 1970s, and it has never stopped moving. It began as a fusion of rhythm and…
- Indie rockIndie rock began its life as a legal description, not a sound. On the 15th of January 1983, a Billboard magazine writer named Roman Kozak published an…
- Mashup (music)A mashup takes two or more already-recorded songs and blends them into something new. It usually means stitching one track's vocals onto another track's…
- Electronic dance musicElectronic dance music, known the world over simply as EDM, began in the nightclubs and warehouses of the late twentieth century and grew into a global…
- Country musicCountry music got its name in an unlikely way. For decades, the genre was called hillbilly music, and only in the 1940s did the term "country music" catch on.
- J-popJ-pop, the abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music", entered the mainstream of Japan in the 1990s, but the story behind it stretches back more than a…