Rap Metal Artists
Rapped verses ride distorted guitar riffs and hard-hitting drums, often snapping into shouted choruses with turntable scratches.
11 Rap Metal artists · 10 releases in the last 6 months · Top labels: Warner Records, New Noize Records, Reprise
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About Rap Metal
Rap metal puts rapped vocals over heavy guitar riffs, often with funk-metal rhythm and occasional turntable work. The style joins hip hop’s vocal flow and beat-driven phrasing to metal’s amplified weight, making it more riff-focused and aggressive than rap rock while retaining a direct connection to rap. It sits alongside alternative metal and nu metal, but its clearest marker is the active role of rapping rather than simply borrowing hip-hop production or attitude.
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What is Rap Metal?
Rap Metal is a music genre defined by heavy metal guitar riffs, rapped vocals, funk metal grooves, turntable scratching, and hip hop and metal fusion. Rapped verses ride distorted guitar riffs and hard-hitting drums, often snapping into shouted choruses with turntable scratches.
Where did Rap Metal come from?
Rap Metal originated in United States, late 1980s.
What instruments are used in Rap Metal?
Rap Metal is built mainly from electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, turntables, and sampler.
Which Rap Metal artists are most popular?
Rage Against The Machine, Linkin Park, Falling In Reverse, Papa Roach, and Hollywood Undead are the highest ranked by Spotify popularity of the 11 Rap Metal artists on this page.
Which labels release Rap Metal?
Warner Records, New Noize Records, Reprise, UNFD, and Epitaph have put out the most Rap Metal records in the Tracknack catalogue.
What genres are similar to Rap Metal?
Artists tagged Rap Metal are most often also tagged Alternative Metal, Rock, Nu Metal, Alternative Rock, and Alternative.
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