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The "Bop" is a dance which people from Chicago have been doing since Be-Bop in the 1950's, but nowadays kids are doing it to crazy sped-up trap music with autotuned vocals and thoroughly Disney/Nintendo-esque melodies.
They also do it to normal rap music as you can see here. This guy's called Lil Kemo and he's known in Chi-town as ''the king of Bop." There's an in-depth piece on Bop from last year on Pitchfork - here it is.
I suppose some people on Dissensus are already aware of Bop. As usual I'm Corpsey-come-lately, having discovered it through listening to a compilation called "We Invented The Bop 2" which I'm reviewing for a forthcoming column in The Wire.
At first I found the mixtape interesting but I wasn't sure if I actually LIKED the music. It's grown on me, though. Fans of Juke/Footwork should be interested, if not enthusiastic. Bop is fast and slightly unhinged ala. Juke, but the sounds are totally synthetic and the Hip-Hop it draws on is stuff like Future, Rich Homie Quan and of course Chief Keef/Lil Durk et al.
As other writers have pointed out, Bop is like the upbeat Ying to Drill's homicidal Yang, despite sharing many lyrical themes. Check out the kids dancing in this video and rejoice to be alive:
Here's some tracks off We Invented The Bop 2 I'm feeling:
Apologies if this been covered elsewhere, and FUCK THE HATERZ in advance.
They also do it to normal rap music as you can see here. This guy's called Lil Kemo and he's known in Chi-town as ''the king of Bop." There's an in-depth piece on Bop from last year on Pitchfork - here it is.
I suppose some people on Dissensus are already aware of Bop. As usual I'm Corpsey-come-lately, having discovered it through listening to a compilation called "We Invented The Bop 2" which I'm reviewing for a forthcoming column in The Wire.
At first I found the mixtape interesting but I wasn't sure if I actually LIKED the music. It's grown on me, though. Fans of Juke/Footwork should be interested, if not enthusiastic. Bop is fast and slightly unhinged ala. Juke, but the sounds are totally synthetic and the Hip-Hop it draws on is stuff like Future, Rich Homie Quan and of course Chief Keef/Lil Durk et al.
As other writers have pointed out, Bop is like the upbeat Ying to Drill's homicidal Yang, despite sharing many lyrical themes. Check out the kids dancing in this video and rejoice to be alive:
Here's some tracks off We Invented The Bop 2 I'm feeling:
Apologies if this been covered elsewhere, and FUCK THE HATERZ in advance.
