mumble rap
nounEtymology
From mumble + rap. First coined by hip hop artist Wiz Khalifa in 2016 during an interview.
Definitions
A microgenre of hip hop with mumbling or unclear vocal delivery by artists, and may…
A microgenre of hip hop with mumbling or unclear vocal delivery by artists, and may generally refer to rappers who do not share the genre's typical emphasis on lyricism.
- Derided by some, artists such as Future and Migos have been wildly successful mumble rap artists.
- The logical culmination of this tendency is today's mumble rap, featuring rhythmically monotonous phrasal and verbal repetition, strongly auto-tuned and, in some cases, literally mumbled.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA