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type beat

/taɪp biːt/

type beat noun: an instrumental made with the intention of emulating the style and sound of a particular musical artist or producer.

Noun

type beat (plural type beats)

  1. (informal, neologism) An instrumental made with the intention of emulating the style and sound of a particular musical artist or producer.
    • An often overlooked undercurrent of contemporary rap production is around a singular phrase: “Type Beat.” Aspiring producers self-consciously emulate the styles of a singular rapper or producer in the hopes that the artist’s fans like it, and more importantly the artist themselves might enjoy it....2017 February 10, David Turner, “How Making “Type Beat” Rap Productions Became a Legit Career Path”, in Vice, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024
    • “Type beats” have become more prevalent than ever. In December, Post Malone announced that he hopes to have a “Post Malone-type beat contest” at some point in the future. MJ Nichols landed a placement on 6ix9ine’s Day69 after the rapper’s team searched for “6ix9ine type beat” on YouTube.2018 May 9, Elias Leight, Jacques Morel Jr., lesleysteele, “How “Type Beats” Have Changed Hip-Hop Production”, in Genius, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2024
    Synonyms:
    style beat

Examples of type beat in a sentence

  • Then they upload it to YouTube with that simple tag “type beat.”2017 February 10, David Turner, “How Making “Type Beat” Rap Productions Became a Legit Career Path”, in Vice, archived from the original on...
  • This video introduced him to type beats, instrumentals that attempt to replicate the sound of a scene that are labeled to grab the attention of aspiring rappers trying to catch the wave.2018 September 4, Alphonse Pierre, “How Selling and Leasing ‘Type Beats’ Is Making Unknown Producers Rich”, in Pitchfork, archived from the...

Synonyms of type beat

  • style beat

Forms of type beat

pluraltype beats

Origin of type beat

Compound of -type (“-like”, suffix) + beat.

Words that rhyme with type beat

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about type beat

What does type beat mean?
Type beat means an instrumental made with the intention of emulating the style and sound of a particular musical artist or producer.
How do you use type beat in a sentence?
Then they upload it to YouTube with that simple tag “type beat.”
What part of speech is type beat?
Type beat is a noun.
How do you pronounce type beat?
Type beat is pronounced /taɪp biːt/.
What is the plural of type beat?
The plural of type beat is type beats.

Words near type beat in the dictionary

  1. type areas
  2. type As
  3. type B
  4. type bar
  5. type bars
  6. type beat
  7. type beats
  8. type Bs
  9. type C
  10. type checker
  11. type checkers

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