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SoundCloud rap

SoundCloud rap noun: a short-lived subgenre of hip hop mixing trap, lo-fi, and electronic music.

Noun

SoundCloud rap (uncountable)

  1. A short-lived subgenre of hip hop mixing trap, lo-fi, and electronic music.
    • It was just another unpredictable, bruising night in the world of SoundCloud rap — a swelling subgenre that takes its name from its creators’ preferred streaming service — which in the last year has become the most vital and disruptive new movement in hip-hop thanks to rebellious music, volcanic...2017 June 22, Jon Caramanica, “The Rowdy World of Rap’s New Underground”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • SoundCloud rap is characterized by its distinct sound, which is typically a mix of trap, lo-fi, electronic, and hip-hop music. Artists of this genre are also known for the short length of their songs, their popular social media presences, and sometimes their dangerous drug use, especially Xanax.2018, Vanessa Oswald, Hip-Hop: A Cultural and Musical Revolution, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 80

Origin of SoundCloud rap

After the audio streaming platform SoundCloud, where this genre initially spread.

Questions about SoundCloud rap

What does SoundCloud rap mean?
SoundCloud rap means a short-lived subgenre of hip hop mixing trap, lo-fi, and electronic music.
What part of speech is SoundCloud rap?
SoundCloud rap is a noun.

Words near SoundCloud rap in the dictionary

  1. soundclash
  2. soundclashes
  3. soundclip
  4. soundclips
  5. SoundCloud
  6. SoundCloud rap
  7. SoundClouded
  8. SoundClouding
  9. SoundClouds
  10. sounded
  11. sounded off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SoundCloud rap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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