Snap music

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[[ Snap music is a subgenre of southern rap music that emerged from Atlanta, Georgia. The genre of music soon became popular and artists from other southern states began to emerge. Tracks commonly consist of only a 808 (bass or kick drum), hi-hat, bass, snapping, a main groove, and a vocal track. Invented for use at nightclubs, it is unusually languid for normal dance music, with a slow tempo. There is some debate over the true origin of Snap, with rap outfits Dem Franchize Boyz, K-Rab, D4L, and producer Mr. Collipark, claiming to be the creators.

Snap dance is a subcategory of pop dance that started in Atlanta, Georgia. The basic idea is that dancers snap their fingers to the snap sound to musical accents while doing various basic dance moves in between.

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Although D4L and Dem Franchise Boys have always laid claim to the invention of snap music, it was actually created by Roland Thick in 2001. The album was Real Life and the song was titled Knock Knock on Homegrown Records. It has been disputed by a lot of outside unreliable sources claiming to be an authority on the issue, but it has been determined by the real hiphop community to be Roland Thick as the real creator of what is now known as "snap music". "The groups D4L and Dem Franchize Boyz are ushering in the "snap music" sound, which incorporates very simplistic beats and finger snaps. There's a dance to go along with this music as well. "The freshest movement going on right now is the finger-snap movement," Mr. Collipark says." ^[1]