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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.
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 ...
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Maggotron (born James McCauley, and also known as DXJ, Maggozulu Too, Planet Detroit and Bass Master Kahn) [3] is one of the pioneers of miami bass music. He uses samples from many sources, and is influenced by Parliament , Funkadelic and Earth Wind and Fire among others.
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]
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]
Bass Outlaws was a Miami bass music group that released their first album in 1992 on Newtown Records. Bass Outlaws released 4 studio albums. [ 1 ] Their first album Illegal Bass peaked at 48 on the Billboard charts .