Rapcore
Rapcore is a
musical genre that fuses the
instrumentations and the vocal elements of
punk,
heavy metal,
hip hop, and sometimes of
funk.
The term is also used to refer to the substyles of
rap-rock and
rap-metal.
Rapcore developed in the mid to late 1980s alongside similar
crossover music genre
funk metal.
The roots of the style can be found in albums by bands such as
Anthrax,
Public Enemy,
Run DMC,
Beastie Boys,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Biohazard,
311,
Suicidal Tendencies and
Faith No More. The first dedicated rapcore band was probably the little-known
Dutch group
Urban Dance Squad, who inspired the founders of
Rage Against the Machine .
Typical in rapcore is either the use of political themes, employed by bands such as
Rage Against the Machine,
Inner Surge,
End7,
Senser, and
Aztlan Underground, or fun/aggression-oriented artists like
Kid Rock,
Limp Bizkit,
Crazy Town,
Linkin Park and
The Bloodhound Gang. Moreover, The band
Zebrahead was recently popularized for their mixture of rapcore and funk/
techno elements.
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311*
Aztlan Underground*
Bloodhound Gang*
Body Count*
Butterfingers*
Crazy Anglos*
Crazy Town*
Cypress Hill*
Deadend United*
D.N.Animation*
Dog Eat Dog*
Downset*
E-Town Concrete*
East West*
FM Static (Thousand Foot Krutch's side punk project)
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Fort Minor*
Guano Apes*
H-Blockx*
Hollywood Undead*
Ill system *
Insane Clown Posse *
Insolence*
John Reuben*
Kid Rock*
KJ-52*
Kottonmouth Kings*
Limp Bizkit*
Linkin Park*
maNga*
Methods of Mayhem*
Molotov*
Necro*
One Minute Silence*
Otep*
P.O.D.*
Papa Roach*
Pillar*
Prahfitz Ov Inzaniti*
Primer 55*
Project Wyze*
Puya*
Rage Against The Machine*
Red Hot Chili Peppers*
Reveille*
Senser *
Shuvel *
Suffer H*
Thousand Foot Krutch*
TobyMac*
Travail*
Trik Turner*
Twiztid*
Urban Dance Squad*
Zebrahead*
Nu Metal*
Allmusic.com page for Rap metal
