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Miami bass (also known as booty music or booty bass) is a subgenre of hip hop music that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The use of drums from the Roland TR-808, sustained kick drum, heavy bass, raised dance tempos, and frequently sexually explicit lyrical content differentiate it from other hip hop subgenres.
He is known for having helped create the Miami bass genre, [1] for establishing one of the first rap groups and rap labels in Southern hip hop, [2] and his sexually crude call and response lyrics which were unique for the time period. [3] [4] He also starred in a short-lived show on VH1, Luke's Parental Advisory.
Miami bass is a popular style of music from the Miami area of South Florida and is embodied by the musical style of local rap stars such as Trick Daddy. [36] Miami bass is a part of the robust music scene in the South Florida metropolitan area, which comprises cities such as Miami, West Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale.
The lyrics to Miami bass were often sexually explicit, and when 2 Live Crew began to achieve national attention, the words in their songs caused controversy; several stores were prosecuted under obscenity laws for selling the disc, and members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing songs from the album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. [7]
The term booty bass can refer to several different, loosely related genres of music: Miami bass – largely based in Miami , but also found throughout Florida and elsewhere in the south. It is essentially the second form of hip hop to come into existence, but was relatively unknown until the 1990s, when the music had become stigmatized because ...
In 2001, he mixed and compiled a CD featuring miami bass classics for Empirewerks Music: Super Bass – Original Old School Booty Shakers. The same year, his compilation Electro Jamz from the Vaults of Jamron Records encompassed miami bass and electro tracks from his early days as a producer and performer. Due to pressure from Pandisc Records ...
DJ Craze (born Arist Delgado; November 19, 1977) is a Nicaraguan American DJ and record producer who plays hip hop, Miami bass, trap, breaks, dubstep, drum and bass, and practices turntablism. [1] He was, until 2020, the only solo DJ in history to win the DMC World DJ Championships trophy three times consecutively (1998–2000). [2]
Florida Breaks draws on hip-hop, Miami bass and electro. It often includes samples of early jazz or funk beats from rare groove or popular film. It often features vocal elements. [2] Compared to the hip-hop on which it is based, [1] the style is faster, more syncopated, and has a heavier and unrelenting bassline. [2]