Talk:Phonk

In pop-culture and the mainstream

 * Freddie Dredd, Canadian Phonk rapper breaking out from the underground through TikTok memes; songs Opaul, Cha Cha, GTG
 * https://mashable.com/article/love-i-know-tiktok-song-freddie-dredd/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Envelopery (talk • contribs) 04:59, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the suggestion. In my opinion, something like this should go into Freddie Dredd, not Phonk. The fact that a phonk artist moved into the mainstream is more relevant to the artist himself rather than to phonk. Nehme1499 (talk) 07:32, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

A section for notable artists?
I think there should be a list for notable artists. 207.195.86.112 (talk) 16:42, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Only artist with Wikipedia pages should be made part of lists. As of now, only DJ Yung Vamp has one. Regardless, there are a few written in prose in the Characteristics section. Nehme1499 17:38, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No, because Manual of Style/Music says "Music genre articles should not contain lists of performers." What you do instead is create a new list article. Binksternet (talk) 20:30, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Yokai on YouTube
I have removed a bunch of sources that are videos self-published on YouTube by someone named yokai. Yokai is not a known expert, so there's no reason that self-published sources would be acceptable; see WP:SELFPUB. Binksternet (talk) 20:30, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Given that phonk is such a new and niche genre, there aren't going to be any worldwide / notable "experts". Quite a few phonk artists shared his videos (,, are just a few examples), indicating that his views are in line with the wider phonk community. Nehme1499 20:50, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is still based on WP:Reliable sources, even when a new topic is developing. Wikipedia's role is to let WP:SECONDARY sources describe and analyze the topic. If that means less information offered to the reader, so be it. Binksternet (talk) 20:55, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yokai's videos are secondary sources regarding phonk, though. I'm not using videos, made by him, which talk about himself. He's analysing and describing situations related to phonk using primary sources (SoundCloud data, statements by artists, ecc…) Nehme<b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 21:01, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yokai fails WP:SELFPUB, secondary or not. Binksternet (talk) 21:05, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yokai is also a phonk artist known as Von Storm, and has been part of a phonk supergroup called Holy Mob, and he has been interviewed in a few articles, so he is a real source in my opinion HelloThereQuestionablePerson (talk) 16:51, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I've re-added Phonk Beta and DJ Squeeky, as those are covered by Lucid Monday (I'm not clear on why they were removed in the first place). DJ Smokey is covered by Vice. The information added to the drift phonk paragraph is supported by Trax Magazine. All these sources were already present in the article, and were not subject of contention. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 12:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Phonk Beta and DJ Squeeky don't have biographies on Wikipedia, so their removal is supported by WP:LISTPEOPLE. If you write the article first, you'll have less pushback.
 * I also removed the Bandcamp article because it does not mention phonk anywhere.
 * I also removed unsupported genres from the infobox. Binksternet (talk) 14:33, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * WP:LISTPEOPLE strictly relates to stand-alone lists (not names in prose), so I've added the names back. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 17:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * It would be nice if, instead of constantly trimming, both of you first discussed you changes here. This ordeal is very one-sided (I have to retract my edits, otherwise I'm banned. I have to discuss here, otherwise I'm banned. You guys can just go ahead and trim as you please?) <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 17:24, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * You're experienced enough to know how to properly source content. I'm not going to detail each and every edit when the onus is on you per WP:BURDEN. You have two editors who are completely unrelated disagreeing with you, potentially others as well. I don't think it's one sided considering, well, it's multiple people telling you you're wrong. CUPIDICAE💕  17:25, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The citations are there, and I believe they are reliable, appropriate, and should thus remain in the article. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 17:27, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, just because a subject doesn't have a Wikipedia article doesn't mean that their opinion is completely irrelevant. An interview with a phonk artist is definitely a good secondary source for material. If anything, they are arguably the most authoritative sources for information on the genre. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 17:29, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The WP:LISTPEOPLE guideline includes embedded lists. There's also the guideline at Manual_of_Style/Music which says music genre articles should not have lists of artists. Our readers are best served when we describe what someone did for the genre, why they are important. Listing someone in passing does not educate the reader. Binksternet (talk) 17:31, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * By that logic, an interview with someone who fancies themselves a good soccer player on a high school team is suitable for inclusion in Soccer. CUPIDICAE💕  17:32, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is based mainly on WP:SECONDARY sources, which means the phonk artist is a primary source and not so useful. What we need as a strong foundation are music journalists and such analyzing the genre. Binksternet (talk) 17:35, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The soccer player analogy does not hold. Skank Mane was actually interviewed by someone, a random guy who likes soccer probably won't be looked at by anyone. I don't see how PRIMARY applies: SM isn't talking about himself, or something closely connected to him. He's describing the aesthetic movement of phonk. The fact that he listens to G-Funk, on the other hand, is PRIMARY information that shouldn't be included (I wouldn't add something to the effect of "Phonk artists used to listen to G-funk"). <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 17:41, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Btw, I'd argue that both of you violated WP:3RR, but I digress... <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 17:42, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Different from the EDM genre?
Is the recent (to me) lo-fi EDM genre related? 2603:7080:9445:3AF0:1CF7:F964:F591:33ED (talk) 03:34, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you link a few example? <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 09:44, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Kordhell
 * https://open.spotify.com/track/6qyS9qBy0mEk3qYaH8mPss?si=ee932cab517c449e
 * https://open.spotify.com/track/3bpR5jv8uzraDgq5YpHwDw?si=95de33603b394773
 * KUTE
 * https://open.spotify.com/track/5FX30idriKlEIRYTxpNf65?si=bafe3cd22fa44ede
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xdiiiq3PRM 2603:7080:9445:3AF0:8CC5:3435:E147:3499 (talk) 04:41, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

I think I've answered my own question. Yes, we're talking about the same thing. I just can't quite hear the hiphop and Memphis rap influences just yet.2603:7080:9445:3AF0:8CC5:3435:E147:3499 (talk) 04:46, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * These tracks go under "Drift phonk", though they are (unfortunately) more commonly known as just "phonk" (which, rightly so, confuses a few listeners as yourself with Memphis phonk). <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 10:07, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Phonk as a symbol of ukrainian resistance
i think a section should be added to talk about phonk and it's significance in ukrainian culture during the 2022 invasion DParkinson1 (talk) 11:19, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Are there sources talking about this? <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 11:53, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * unfortunately not. i can link you thousands of ukraine phonk videos that are basically mocking mr putin's invasion, but no one has written anything you could cite on wikipedia. DParkinson1 (talk) 20:22, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Drift shouldn't be listed as a subgenre of Phonk
Drift should be seen seperate from Phonk. They're not even close to being alike and this article confuses alot of people. You can still talk about Drift as being commonly associated to Phonk because of TikTok, but listing it as a subgenre gives people the insentive of referring to Drift as just "Phonk" which is a huge problem for the Phonk scene 92.117.48.110 (talk) 07:08, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It technically still is a subgenre (as per several sources), though I agree with your sentiment. I've changed the article a bit to reflect the current situation. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 11:08, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The original phonk is a hip hop genre. Drift phonk is an EDM genre. Separating these two genres with different pages would help clarify this as drift is a sub genre of phonk, borrowing elements of Memphis phonk stylistically.
 * The source you provided also considers drift phonk to be a subgene of phonk: . <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 10:34, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I guess it's worth reworking article into "phonk" as a meta-genre referring to few various post-Memphis trends. The one is hip hop's "rare phonk", which the article is currently describing as plain phonk, and the another is EDM's "drift phonk" with a ton of microtrends. Check the scheme on Forbes.com. Solidest (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

It's a subgenre, technically, but it should be a different article nonetheless. Bruhpedia (talk)

It is a subgenre, but it shouldn't have a separate page. Subgenres shouldn't have separate pages unless they are very notable by themselves and there's a lot (I mean a lot) to say about them. Judging by the size of Drift phonk section, if split, it will forever remain a stub to be eventually merged back again (as previously happened to numerous DNB subgenres). This phonk trend will of course end, just like all EDM/hip-hop trends come and go. Temporary phenomenon, a microgenre, needs to have exactly one article dedicated to it! 178.121.41.213 (talk) 23:57, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Additionally, there are more subgenres, such as dirt phonk, rare phonk, raw phonk, and jungle phonk. When listening to these other subgenres, drift phonk really sticks out as not just different, but a separate genre. The music is completely different, with house style beats and the prominent use of the 808 cowbell, and very minimal or no use of rap samples. Drift phonk also has completely different aesthetics to the rest of phonk. Phonk has an emphasis on nostalgia, especially nostalgia for Millenials and Gen Zs. Lots of album covers are drawn in MS Paint, and movies from the 90s and 2000s are sampled. Drift phonk, is associated more with drifting, cars, weightlifting and "sigma" stuff. I think these other subgenres should be included in the list of subgenres, and in the section for drift phonk, it should be mentioned that drift phonk isn't considered the same genre by lots of people. Furthermore, the opening to the article should not mention the use of the 808 cowbell, since the genre as a whole doesn't use it that often. That was quite long, but it sets out my issues with the article, as a phonk fan. HelloThereQuestionablePerson (talk) 17:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree, but we need reliable sources covering this in order to change the article to reflect that. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 23:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Writ 2 - Academic Writing
— Assignment last updated by SolidBill (talk) 08:13, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

List "Phonk House/House Phonk" and "Rage Phonk" as popular subgenres/styles of Drift Phonk
House Phonk is basically Drift Phonk, but with a 4/4 beat throughout the track, instead of a typical trap beat.

See these examples:

https://soundcloud.com/kslv_noh/disasters-end

https://soundcloud.com/kslv_noh/destiny

https://soundcloud.com/kslv_noh/heist

Rage Phonk is typically atonal and fastpaced/aggressively distorted.

See these examples:

https://soundcloud.com/kslv_noh/override

https://soundcloud.com/kslv_noh/disaster

https://soundcloud.com/kslv_noh/chase

The two are used alot in the Drift Phonk scene and are not exclusive to eachother; and I think adding them would help for people who are unexperienced with the genre. 77.191.54.57 (talk) 17:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * We need reliable sources (like news articles) if we want to add information. Tracks on Soundcloud are not sources. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 12:15, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: English 112 - Freshman Composition
— Assignment last updated by Alice.lous (talk) 18:04, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Phonk House
Phonk House is a subgenre of phonk. Iftesum (talk) 06:31, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Someone vandalized the infobox
Mentions of SGP's phonk were removed from infobox, but the "aggressive phonk" and "chill phonk" gibberish was added instead. They aren't mentioned in the article. Someone also added this long ass list of countries where phonk is supposedly popular, where absolute most of those countries go unmentioned in the text. 178.121.41.213 (talk) 23:46, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

do spaceghost purp and 3-6 actually know what phonk is or is this retconned?
do spaceghost purp and 3-6 actually know what phonk is or is this retconned? Deadavenger0 (talk) 18:25, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Purrp popularized the word "phonk", as he released tracks titled "Pheel tha Phonk", "Bringin' tha Phonk", and "Keep Bringin' tha Phonk". Three Six Mafia aren't phonk artists, they were pioneers to what we now call "phonk" (but back then was Southern hip hop). <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 21:43, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks that actually clears it up hugely. i love spaceghost purp and think he is revolutionary . never realized he actually was the one popularizing the term. asap mob bit his style and threw him to the dirt, those vultures. purp is goated Deadavenger0 (talk) 22:14, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * clearly i cant read LOL. good stuff Deadavenger0 (talk) 22:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

1990s or 2010s/late 2000s?
Reading the history section, you see this: Phonk took inspiration from trap roots in the Southern United States in the mid 1990s. Artists or musical groups like DJ Screw, X-Raided, DJ Spanish Fly, DJ Squeeky, and the collective Three 6 Mafia all helped pioneer the foundations for the genre to emerge many years later, with the Houston chopped and screwed seen as the precursor to the genre. Artists such as SpaceGhostPurrp revived the sound in the form of Phonk in th early 2010s.

Looking at infobox and then reading this, one would think that phonk emerged directly from the 1990s Memphis (or, it may appear rather vague to a reader whether phonk originated in 90s or late 00s), while it arguable arose from the late 2000s experiments of SGP and co., but those guys were 100% influenced by Memphis rap.

To paraphrase, Memphis rap has "1990s, Memphis" in cultural origins section, and phonk also "1990s, Memphis" in cultural origins section, and this is rather confusing, since sonically they may at times sound very similar, and yes, they are directly related, but this may still give an impression that phonk originated in the 1990s in Memphis. 178.121.4.171 (talk) 14:06, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * What solution do you propose? <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 19:45, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * My first idea is "Before 2010s, United States". SGP is from FL, not even from Memphis. It's doubtful whether he started this wave though all by himself singlehandedly, but it was undoubtedly him who capitalized on the sound and brought it up in early the 2010s, even invented a new name for it in the early 2010s, so phonk undoubtedly emerged either during the early 2010s (not later) or somewhen before 2010s. That's all we can say reliably about SGP's contribution, but by saying "Before 2010s" we also allude to the fact that phonk descended directly from 1990s Memphis rap. But at the same time "before 2010s" alludes to SGP as well, without conflating Memphis rap and phonk origins. That's vague, but still says it all according to sources, I think so. 178.121.5.171 (talk) 20:06, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * According to the infobox's documentation, the "cultural_origins" parameter refers to . At this point, I would just put "Early 2010s, United States", as we are specifically talking about Phonk, not the precursor to the genre (Memphis rap). What do you think? <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 08:02, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I've watched "soundcloud 2022 highlights" video from Soundcloud staff link yesterday (that's a reliable source, right?) and see what they have there: in the video itself you can see that origins of phonk are in "1990s United States", but during the same exact timeframe in the video when this graph is being shown, the narrator tells us that phonk "emerged during the [late] 2000s". SGP started moving in 2010, and that's according to the article about him, but then that's a bit debatable whether 2010 was in the 2000s or in the 2010s (most will say 2010s). In other words the debate should (in my opinion) rightfully be about whether it's precisely the late 2000s or [early] 2010s when phonk emerged. But that's a lot of pedantry in the end [unnecessarily non-constructive pedantry, if you ask me] and so I wholeheartedly agree that "Early 2010s, United States" is 99,99% better than confusing "1990s" and would solve all the problems I asked about when started this talk section. I totally agree with your solution! 178.121.5.171 (talk) 10:12, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I've just read the second paragraph of the lead section and with the done edits it now reads out of place, as the first sentence in it describes Memphis rap. Maybe it should be rephrased akin to "An immediate pre-cursor of phonk, memphis rap, developed in the 1990s..." or so. 178.121.5.171 (talk) 11:27, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree. I’ll be busy this week so I won’t be able to edit. Feel free to be BOLD and edit yourself. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#27B382">1499</b> 13:25, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Why is phonk house considered a fusion genre and not a a subgenre?
Why is phonk house considered a fusion genre and not a a subgenre? XxLALANotListeningxX (talk) 21:41, 8 March 2024 (UTC)