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belong to Rapcore genre. Rap core is a music genre that fuses many elements
of hip hop music with the instrumentation of hardcore punk and/or heavy
metal. It is also used to refer to the substyles of rap-rock and rap-metal.
Influences from funk music can also be heard in some rapcore tracks,
especially in the rhythm. Rap-Metal seeks to fuse the most aggressive
elements of hardcore rap and heavy metal, and became an extremely popular
variation of alternative metal during the late '90s. With few exceptions,
rap-metal is far and away the domain of white musicians coming to the
form from the metal side of the equation. Prior to the initial emergence
of rap-metal, there had been several successful fusions of rap with
hard rock guitar -- Run-D.M.C.'s collaboration with Aerosmith on a remake
of the latter's "Walk This Way," the Beastie Boys' Licensed
to Ill -- but the true birth of rap-metal was Anthrax's comic 1987 single
"I'm the Man," which combined a heavy guitar riff (actually
the melody of "Hava Nagila") with full-fledged, surprisingly
competent rapping. Funk-metal outfits like the Red Hot Chili Peppers
and Faith No More dabbled in the style, but the intense hardcore tone
commonly associated with '90s rap-metal was established by another Anthrax
record, a 1991 remake of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise"
that featured members of PE itself. Some metal bands had come to associate
hardcore rap with the street-tough urban attitude they wanted to project,
and after "Bring the Noise," they suddenly found it possible
to experiment with fusing the two. Many of these efforts focused not
on the linguistic and rhythmic complexity of rap, but on the cathartic
intensity that could be achieved by sort of shout-rapping the lyrics
instead of singing them. In spite of projects like 1993's much-hyped
Judgment Night soundtrack -- which featured all-star teamings of artists
from the rap and rock worlds -- crossover collaborations faded as the
'90s wore on. At the same time, rap-metal began to draw influences from
alternative metal -- specifically, bands like Helmet, White Zombie,
and Tool, who relied on crushingly heavy sonic textures more than catchy
songwriting or immediately memorable riffs. The thick sound and the
lack of melodic emphasis fit rap-metal's concerns perfectly. With the
exception of Rage Against the Machine's angry left-wing politics, most
rap-metal bands during the mid- to late '90s blended an ultra-aggressive,
testosterone-heavy theatricality with either juvenile humor or an introspective
angst learned through alternative metal; the vocalists drew from hip-hop
MC traditions in varying degrees. Some alt-metal bands, spearheaded
by Korn, incorporated hip-hop beats into their music, but full-fledged
rap-metal always featured a rapper as frontman. Limp Bizkit became rap-metal's
most popular band during the late '90s
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, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers,
311 and Faith No More, but 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. The band
Zebrahead was recently popularized for their mixture of rapcore and
funk/techno elements.