mumble rap

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mumble rap

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Etymology edit

From mumble + rap. First coined by hip hop artist Wiz Khalifa in 2016 during an interview.^[1]

Noun edit

mumble rap (uncountable)

(music) A microgenre of hip hop with mumbling or unclear vocal delivery by artists, and may generally refer to rappers who do not share the genre's typical emphasis on lyricism.
Hypernyms: hip hop, rap

Coordinate terms: emo rap, cloud rap, SoundCloud rap, trap music
- 2018, Nick J. Sciullo, Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture, page 40:
  Derided by some, artists such as Future and Migos have been wildly successful mumble rap artists.
- 2019, Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, page 201:
  "Mumble rap" is the most active and vigorous scapegoat rap has had in years, in part because the internet — particularly social media — has created a landscape for it to thrive and be a hotly debated topic, engaging in the ideas of language and whether or not rappers should have to adhere to them, or whether or not this so-called mumble rap is actually pushing the genre forward, past some of its bowing to establishments.
- 2020, Macklin Smith, Aurko Joshi, Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat, page 256:
  The logical culmination of this tendency is today's mumble rap, featuring rhythmically monotonous phrasal and verbal repetition, strongly auto-tuned and, in some cases, literally mumbled.
- 2020, Adrian Besley, Billie Eilish: From e-girl to Icon‎^[2], Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:
  There was an exciting proliferation of punk rap, mumble rap, emo rap and trap-influenced SoundCloud artists.

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^ Kathy Iandoli (2016 December 21) “The Rise of ‘Mumble Rap’: Did Lyricism Take a Hit in 2016?”, in Billboard‎^[1]: “The phrase du jour became “mumble rap,” first coined by Wiz Khalifa in June during an interview with Hot 97’s morning show Ebro in the Morning. “We call it mumble rap,” Wiz explained of the newer generation’s lyrical style.”

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English mumble rap.

Noun edit

mumble rap m (invariable)

(neologism) mumble rap

[1] Kathy Iandoli (2016 December 21) “The Rise of ‘Mumble Rap’: Did Lyricism Take a Hit in 2016?”, in Billboard‎^[1]: “The phrase du jour became “mumble rap,” first coined by Wiz Khalifa in June during an interview with Hot 97’s morning show Ebro in the Morning. “We call it mumble rap,” Wiz explained of the newer generation’s lyrical style.”

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