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Clouddead (styled as cLOUDDEAD) [4] [5] was an American experimental hip hop group, consisting of Doseone (Adam Drucker), Why? and Odd Nosdam (David Madson)The group's name came from a nonsensical knock-knock joke Drucker's sister told him when she was five years old.
Cloud rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that has several sonic characteristics of trap music with a hazy, dreamlike and relaxed production style. [3] [4] Rapper Lil B and producer Clams Casino were early pioneers of the style. [3] [4] The term "cloud rap" is derived from its internet origins and ethereal style. [5]
Stevie Chick of NME wrote, "This music takes the most abstract fallout of trip-hop as its starting point, working in white noise, telephone pranks and post-rock textures to create a disorientating mush you'll spend weeks getting lost in." [5] Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! stated that "Clouddead follows more along the lines of Frank Zappa or Captain Beefheart than it does hip-hop, but it remains ...
Grice and Glover met in the seventh grade when they were both kicked out of math class, and began recording raps together. The two have continued to collaborate and have become known as significant players in the "cloud rap" movement, which features "a splinter sound that's ethereal and often hooked around cascading synth lines and amorphous beats".
Alternative hip hop. Experimental hip hop; Hipster hop; Boom bap; Bounce; British hip hop. Road rap; Chopped and screwed; Chopper; Christian hip hop; Cloud rap; Comedy hip hop
Lee Arthur Carter (born October 7, 1971), known professionally by his stage name Viper, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. [1] He is regarded as one of the originators of cloud rap.
McCartney was born on August 17, 1989, in Berkeley, California, [5] and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. [6] He adopted the name Lil B, and began rapping at age 15 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack.
Kevin Pouya (born December 20, 1994), [1] known mononymously as Pouya, is an American rapper from Miami, Florida. [2] Considered as a pioneer of the early underground rap scene that began on Soundcloud in 2012, [3] along with discovering the well known hip-hop duo Suicideboys in their early career, [4] Pouya has developed a long-lasting core fanbase as an independent artist.