Style recipe for Suno v5
Boom Bap
Boom bap from the 1990s: punchy kick, cracking snare, soul sample loop, raw and nostalgic in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.
History
Boom bap is named after the sound it makes: boom for the kick drum, bap for the snare. The words first landed on record in 1984, when T La Rock ad-libbed them to mimic the beat on "It's Yours", and the phrase stuck after KRS-One called an album Return of the Boom Bap. It was the sound of East Coast hip-hop, rooted in New York, through the golden age of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The recipe is spare on purpose: a hard acoustic kick on beats one and three, a snapping snare on two and four, heavily swung programming, vinyl samples run through an Akai MPC or an SP-1200, and a mix that shoves the drums in the listener's face. With so little going on in the beat, the rapper carries the song, often without a chorus, telling stories about gang violence, gentrification and life in segregated neighborhoods. DJ Premier and Pete Rock became the defining producers, and DJ Premier liked to build his hooks out of scratched vocal snippets. Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and Mobb Deep rapped over it, and modern hip-hop still leans on its kick-and-snare backbone.
The recipe
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Tag breakdown
Every descriptor in this style, listed one at a time.
| # | Tag |
|---|---|
| 1 | Boom bap |
| 2 | 1990s |
| 3 | raw |
| 4 | nostalgic |
| 5 | defiant |
| 6 | punchy kick |
| 7 | cracking snare |
| 8 | soul sample loop |
| 9 | vinyl scratches |
| 10 | chopped horns |
| 11 | sub bass line |
| 12 | hi-hat shuffle |
| 13 | four bar loop |
| 14 | scratch hook chorus |
| 15 | male lead vocal |
| 16 | gruff throaty |
| 17 | low mid |
| 18 | streetwise grit |
| 19 | punchline flow |
| 20 | gritty voice |
| 21 | on beat cadence |
| 22 | hard-hitting drums |
| 23 | sample chops |
| 24 | crunchy sampler grit |
| 25 | drums over samples |
| 26 | thick and crunchy |
| 27 | dusty sample grain |
| 28 | small room drums |
| 29 | plate snare reverb |
| 30 | swung sixteenth shuffle |
| 31 | head nod pocket |
| 32 | drums drop briefly |
| 33 | sample stabs punctuate |
| 34 | kick pushes verse |
| 35 | polished professional master |
| 36 | wide dimensional stereo |
| 37 | 90 BPM |
| 38 | for street tracks |
A 38-tag, 631-character recipe carrying a male vocal, set to 85–95 BPM.
Artists in this style
- Mary J. Blige
- IAM
- Method Man
- Logic
- Fugees
- LL Cool J
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Joey Bada$$
- Common
- Raekwon
- Gang Starr
- RZA
- Гуф
- KRS-One
- Westside Gunn
- Big Pun
- Eric B. & Rakim
- Big Daddy Kane
- Каста
- Benny the Butcher
- Смоки Мо
- Conway the Machine
- alyona alyona
- 9th Wonder
- Us3
- Pete Rock & CL Smooth
- Gravediggaz
- Rapsody
- Триагрутрика
- People Under the Stairs
- Ras Kass
- Jean Grae
- Bad Balance
Substyles
- Golden Age Hip-Hop1990s · 88–98 BPM
- Boom Bap Instrumental1990s · 86–94 BPM
- Boom Bap Jazz Fusion1990s · 84–92 BPM
- Boom Bap Revival2020s · 86–94 BPM
- Boom Bap Soul2000s · 84–92 BPM
- Underground Boom Bap2000s · 86–94 BPM
- Gangsta Boom Bap1990s · 86–96 BPM
- West Coast Boom Bap1990s · 88–96 BPM
- Reggae Boom Bap2000s · 85–95 BPM
- Boom Bap Lofi2010s · 80–92 BPM