Talk:Rapcore

This needs serious editing...NOW!
Okay, so looking over this article, I read something that went something like this:

"some bands in this genre are known for rapping in their songs, such as Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit".

Wait...if we are calling this RAPcore, shouldn't ALL BANDS be known for using RAP vocals? It's ridiculuos to say something is rapcore if the band doesn't even rap.

As for Linkin Park being rapcore...how? Oh, sure, some say that Chester sounds like a hardcore vocalist at times, but other than that, I have yet to see one source [By the way, the source that labels Linkin Park as Rapcore is an article in RAP-METAL] call them Rapcore.

D33PPURPLE (talk) 16:05, 26 March 2009 (UTC)D33PPURPLE

Enphesise on punk with rap vocals
Rapcore was a term used amongst hardcore punk songs when certain groups used rapping as vocals. Example is Suicidal Tendencies on the song "Join the Army" from way back in 1987. Other examples of groups to do "rapcore" are Agnostic Front, Sick of it all and Leeway. Heavy Metal that uses Rap would be called "rap metal" and Rock that uses rap would be rap rock. Please. Who made this article up?

As for Beastie Boys being mentioned. Sure they started off as Hardcore Punk but they put their instruments down and turned into Hip Hop. Sure they were using rock music in their songs but so did most early Hip Hop acts as dance music (as in house, Garage etc) didn't exist and rock, Soul & Jazz were the main musics in the American pop charts. The first New York DJs all went mad for mixing in Apache by the Shadows. Look it up and properly research then you will find it all there and also gain a simple understanding of what Hip Hop is. Run DMC were massive for calling themselves the "Kings of Rock". This did not make them remotely a rock fusion act as they were solely "Hip Hop". The whole point of Hip Hop was it was able to steal from other music types by using recordings and sampling. The music was electronically produced music and didn't require instruments to be played (this was just before the computer age). Gang Star did the same only sampling and mixing with Jazz music as did Jazzy Jeff. Later acts of a West Indian interest such as the Ragga Twins did it with reggae.

Blondie did the first rap rock song. The song was still rock and was never regarded as being Hip Hop. Anthrax probably did the first real rap Metal song.

Example of Rapcore songs

AGNOSTIC FRONT - For My Family

Sick of it all - just look around (ft everlast)

Leeway - Kingpin

Madball - Infiltrate the System

Rapcore??? Are you serious??
Okay, I have heard of rap metal and rap rock, but never rapcore or rap-punk. And with it's bare mention in society anywhere (with the exception of the hardcore kids who seems to make anything with "core" in it popular), why should it be here? And no, Rapcore is not Rap metal, rap rock, and rap punk combined into one genre. It's a stupid idea.

And Anthrax? You mention anthrax as Rapcore? Rap Metal with "Bring the Noise" (which they had to add Public Enemy temporarily), but Heavy Metal usually (they did one song Rap Metal, that does not mean they "pioneered" Rap Metal [or in this case "rapcore"]).

All I'm saying is that there is no point in having this article. Every band who seems to be rapcore can already be defined under another genre perfectly fine.

98.28.143.9 (talk) 16:28, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Ignore this comment above me.

98.28.143.9 (talk) 16:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Well said. Rap-core is an umbrella term for Hardcore Punk with rapping style vocals in it. i.e. Suicidal Tendencies - "Join The Army" or Sick of it all - "just look around" are the first two that spring to mind. Rap / metal or Rap / rock has nothing to do with rapcore. Genres ending in -core is a reference to Hardcore Punk spin-offs. Metalosaurus (talk) 21:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

info from now redirected articles
= would rapcore be part of metalcore, since metalcore is a mixture of heavy metal and hardcore punk, while rapcore is a mixture of heavy metal, rap, and hardcore punk why was no info merged from the rap rock and rap metal articles before they were redirected to this page? i'll work on this when i get some time, if someone doesn't do it before (revisions of both articles prior to the redirect;, ) --MilkMiruku 11:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Cypress Hill, rapcore?
Is it right to consider Cypress Hill a rapcore group? I know they do do some rock rap songs but in essence they are a rap group and mostly do rap music, instead of this hybrid of rap and rock. 6:00 UTC February 26, 2006
 * It's possible to be in two genres at once.--Urthogie 09:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * They're not rapcore. Straight up hip-hop. If you care enough, it's more Hispanic hip-hop than general (East Coast) hip-hop. MOD  13:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Straight up hip hop? Obviously your knowledge of Cypress Hill is minimal at best. They had half a double album (Skull & Bones) of rapcore material, plus numerous other tracks on other albums (Trouble, Catastrophe and Amplified, just off the top of my head). They've incorporated rock into their music for a long while now. To consider Cypress Hill a rapcore group is perfectly reasonble, as previously said; you can be in more than one genre at once. - Ezenden 02:31, 07 August 2006

I have to agree that doing a few songs that fit into rapcore doesn't make a band rapcore, unless it's a large amount of songs, I know too little of Cypress Hill to be an authority but if they have, say, less than 10% rap songs with rock mixed into it for example, I think it's better to label them hip hop and let it be stated on their own page that they sometimes mix hip hop with rock.

made a category
Check it out, Category:Rapcore. Please use it.--Urthogie 16:15, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Other influences
Someone should unlock this page and add that other influences for rapcore come from anything by Biohazard and Suicidal Tendencies. Egr, 14/5/2006
 * I'll go and get it unprotected.--Urthogie 13:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Punk rap?
Is there such thing? I know PAX 217, Skindred and MC Lars have done it. Anyone else? &mdash; Phantasy Phanatik | talk | contribs 05:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I added a blurb on The Clash, who as a punk band wrote two rap songs. Jlee562 (talk) 04:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Heavy Metal?
I'm not quite sure that rapcore should be considered a subgenre of heavy metal. While nu-metal, I agree, is a subgenre of heavy metal, I consider rapcore to be much more a fusion of punk and rap. Alot of nu-metal artists have metal overtones to their music, most rapcore artists do not. PEiP 19:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)


 * WP:REF --Chargin&#39; Chuck 21:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Literal Translation
"Rapcore" literally translates to "hardcore punk with rapped vocals". This isn't always the case with rapcore bands, but it can be seen in the name as well as in bands such as Rage Against The Machine and Kid Rock.

This is not a "translation", let alone "literal". A translation is from one language to another, and literal is word for word, such as "¿Cómo estas?" becomming "How [you are]?". Also, this was in a "trivia" section which provides no value to the article.

Joetheodd 03:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

rapcore?
No one says rapcore people say rap-metal like .rapmetal bands include stuck mojo ,limpbizkit,linkin park,bionic jive.

I have never haeard rap rock or rapcore in my life except on wikipedia.

The proper term is rap-metal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.118.200.168 (talk) 00:08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

The bands you referred to are considered Nu Metal, I've always been a large fan of Nu Metal and I've never heard of them referred to as "rap-metal", Nu Metal would be correct. 70.251.68.192 (talk) 08:44, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Stylistic origins
Rap rock quotes Ambrose in The Violent World of Moshpit Culture as stating that rapcore originated from rap rock and fuses hardcore punk with hip hop. Several other sources refer to rapcore as originating from punk and rap rock. There's no evidence that rapcore originated from rap metal. The two genres are completely separate. Sources indicate that rap metal originates from heavy metal, while rapcore originates from punk. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 18:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC))

Lil Jon
Lil Jon ist  am 27.01.1971 in Atlanta geboren. ER ist auch der erfinder des Energi Drink`s.(Crunk) Lil Jon bezeichnet sich auch sellber als King of Crunk. Und er ist ein Usamerikanischer Rapper und Musikproduzent. Lil Jon hat auch mit Solja Boy Musik gemacht. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.159.38.67 (talk) 12:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Rapcore didn't emerge from rap rock.
Rapcore didn't emerge from rap rock. It emerged from hardcore punk. Rapcore is solely hardcore punk music only it uses a rap style vocal. It doesn't use any drum machines or electronic sounds. Rap rock started independent to rapcore. Agreed it can be termed as a subgenre of rap rock as hardcore is a subgenre of punk rock which itself is a subgenre of rock. It emerged from hardcore punk groups of the street gang image from mostly of LA & NY. Image wise the Hip Hop gangster image and NYHC / LAHC are very similar. I guess a few hardcore vocalists just fancied their hand at rapping.

example of bands
there aren't really any rapcore bands but more songs. Groups such as Suicidal Tendencies, Agnostic Front & Sick of it all are example of groups. It is called rapcore as it is hardcore punk where the singer raps instead of sings / shouts.

Nu Metal???!!
Anyone would think this was an article about Nu Metal.

The term "nu metal" was first used for a review of a mid-October 1995 Coal Chamber concert in Spin magazine in the form "new metal". Nu Metal emerged in the mid-1990s and combines grunge music, alternative metal, funk metal, hip hop, and various other heavy metal influences such as industrial, groove and thrash.

Nu metal bands often feature aggressive vocals that range from melodic or emotional singing similar to pop and rock, guttural screaming and shouting from various forms of metal or hardcore punk, and like funk metal; rapping is often used.

Saying rap rock & rapcore were the basis for Nu Metal is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.252.34 (talk) 14:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

rap punk
Is "punk rock" a sourced genre? --Phillip Kragulj (talk) 11:17, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Merge with rap metal or rap rock
Is this genre really needed? to me this genre just seems to be another way of saying rap metal/rap rock. I've also noticed that this term is mainly used in european countries, but rarely elsewhere. This genre is supposedly a fusion between punk and hip hop but it's almost always used for bands like linkin park, papa roach and limp bizkit, who have very little to do with punk rock or hardcore punk, and who have much more in common with metal and hard rock. And any band that actually does mix punk with hip hop (e.g hed pe) can always be put under the rap rock category, since punk rock is a sub-genre of rock music after all. Thoughts?

Rap metal and Rapcore
Adding some information about rap metal into this page about rapcore makes sense as there is a lot of over-lap and similarities between to two genres, however rap metal, unlike nu metal and crunkcore, doesn't have anything directly related to rapcore(or fusions of hardcore/punk and rap) so too much information about rap metal, is un-needed, I agree some is needed as they share similar history and bands like Biohazard can be considered as both, nevertheless there is still too much information about rap metal in this article about rapcore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.81.109 (talk) 21:39, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Metal
I love edit wars when they're conducted by stupid fucks.
 * Hed PE performs a fusion of styles ranging from hip hop and reggae to punk rock, hardcore punk and heavy metal.

And there's all the material you removed including addition of validly removed material such as interwiki links. In mine, you restored an WP:OVERLINK. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:43, 26 June 2014 (UTC)