Curated playlist
2000s in music
- Internet rapInternet rap, also called online rap, began as hip-hop that traveled through the blogosphere in the late 2000s. The British magazine Dazed once said of Lil B, "he's the father of 'Internet rap' and probably follows you on Twitter". The…
- House musicFrankie Knuckles began splicing records because the music ran out before dancers wanted to stop.
- Nu metalThree nu metal albums came out on August 18, 1998. Billboard later called it the "Biggest Day in Nu-Metal History".
- Cloud rapCloud rap got its name from a castle in the clouds. Lil B described the image in a 2009 interview.
- CrunkcoreCrunkcore mixed screaming, Southern hip-hop beats and dance music. Critics scorned it, yet it fed hyperpop.
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap first went by a different name: reality rap. Schoolly D and Ice-T said they described a world they knew.
- Rap metalIn 1987, Anthrax became one of the earliest bands to deliberately mix hip hop and heavy metal.
- EmoAt Rites of Spring shows in the mid-1980s, audience members sometimes wept.
- Contemporary R&BIn 2004, all twelve Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs came from African-American artists.
- Indie rockIndie rock began as a bookkeeping label, not a sound. A Billboard writer coined the phrase in January 1983.
- Mashup (music)Harry Nilsson's 1967 Beatles "cover" was not a cover at all. One guitar chord fit many Beatles songs.
- Electronic dance musicGhost production means a hired producer makes a track that a DJ releases under their own name.
- Country musicThe steel guitar in country music traces back to Hawaii, not Appalachia. Country's sound was a braid of many traditions.
- J-popJapan once argued over whether rock music could be sung in Japanese. The band Happy End proved it could.