Crunk. Should I be interested?

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I admit, I don't know my Crunk. But am I missing anything?

I downloaded some stuff a few months ago and I really couldn't tell much difference from other "dirty south" hip-hop I knew. And franky I'm more entertained by OutKast and Timbaland.

What's the big deal? What should I be trying to get hold of? And why?

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm relieved that you're from the UK.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

WHUT!?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

download just any Lil Jon production (Salt Shaker, Get Low, What U Gon Do, I dont give a..., Throw It Up), put your headphones on, turn the volume up (important!), forget all your indie rock aesthetics and just listen...you are gonna get baptized by crunk soon. its just like punk, if you dont feel it, you dont get it...
however, if you want to get to some sofisticated/serious crunk (if it isnt contradiction), try some David Banner (Baptized In Dirty Water, Mississippi THe Album)...

― karl76 (karl76), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no, you have to play it in your car. fuckin loud, brah. seriously, bone crusher's "attenCHUN!" at deafening volumes is just amazing. without toxic levels of bass you're only getting half of the experience.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

it's true, bowel-moving levels of bass are key in an appreciation of crunk. crunk, really though is just a brand name invented by little jon to sell his style of production.

― captain easychord (captain easychord), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh. Possibly the fact I don't drive hinders my enjoyment :-)

Yeah, it was Lil Jon I downloaded. Though I didn't note the names of the tracks. One about "20 hos on a truck, that's nasty" and "get some crunk in your system"

My point is, in around 2000 I was in Atlanta and picked up a couple of things : "Jim Crow" and a "Three-6 Mafia" compilation with people like Gangsta Boo, Big Tymers and Tear the Club Up Thugs. Then over the next couple of years I was downloading stuff like Petey Pablo (who I think is with Timbaland, no?) All this I call "southern" hip-hop.

So far, the "Crunk" I've heard (and actually, it's probably just Lil Jon) sounds like a slightly more monotonous derivitive of this. Monotonous in the sense of the rhythms being less "lively" than the Three-7 stuff and the melodic loops being less plaintive and touching than Jim Crow's.

So I guess my question sort of what easychord answered. Is Crunk a different beast from the rest of southern hip-hop? And if so, what differentiates it?

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

BUBBLECRUNK >>>>>>>>> CRUNK

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The track which sorta "explained" crunk's sonic potential to me: Ying Yang Twins' "Merry Christmas (Ho Ho Ho)".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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