Curated category
2010s fads and trends
- Cloud rapIn 2010, music blogger Walker Chambliss wrote a blog post that introduced the phrase cloud rap to describe the work of Squadda B.
- TikTokByteDance launched Douyin on the 20th of September 2016, a mobile app designed to host user-submitted videos ranging from three seconds to 60 minutes.
- 4chanOn the 1st of October 2003, a fifteen-year-old student named Christopher Poole launched an English-language imageboard from his New York City bedroom.
- Gangsta rapPhiladelphia rapper Schoolly D released a self-titled debut album in 1985 that contained the song "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" This track is widely regarded…
- Rap metalIn 1987, the heavy metal band Anthrax released their extended play I'm the Man. This record fused hip hop with heavy metal for the first time on a major…
- Trap musicIn 1991, the word trap first appeared in hip-hop lyrics to describe a place where drugs were sold. By 1999, producers in Atlanta began crafting a sound that…
- Doge (meme)A 2010 photograph of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu became the visual foundation for an internet phenomenon. Atsuko Sato, Kabosu's owner, posted this image on her…
- Scene (subculture)The year 2002 marked the first known use of the term scene queen, a label older hardcore musicians used to mock attractive women they believed joined the…