Rapcore

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Rapcore
Stylistic origins:	Rock Hip hop Punk Heavy metal Funk
Cultural origins:	Mid-to-late 1980s, United States
Typical instruments:	Sampler - Bass guitar - Electric guitar - Drums - Keyboard - Turntables - Rapping - Vocals
Mainstream popularity:	Has gained some mainstream popularity through bands such as Urban Dance Squad and Rage Against the Machine. <tr><th align="left" valign="top">Derivative forms:</th><td valign="top">Nu metal</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="darkblue" colspan=2 valign="top">Subgenres</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Rap-rock Rap-metal</td></tr><tr><th align="center" bgcolor="darkblue" colspan=2 valign="top">Other topics</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan="2" valign="top">Hip hop music - History of hip hop music - Timeline of hip hop - Timeline of heavy metal</td></tr>

Rapcore is a musical genre that fuses the instrumental and vocal techniques of hip hop, punk, heavy metal and sometimes funk.

The term is also used to refer to the substyles of rap-rock and rap-metal.

[edit] Genre history

Rapcore developed in the mid to late 1980s, alongside the similar crossover music genre funk metal.

The roots of the style can be found in albums by bands such as Anthrax, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biohazard, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., 311, Suicidal Tendencies and Faith No More. The first full-dedicated rapcore acts to obtain some mainstream popularity, were the groups Urban Dance Squad and Rage Against the Machine (respectively from Netherlands and California), in the early 1990s^{[citation needed]}.

Typical in rapcore is either the use of political themes, employed by bands such as Rage Against the Machine, downset., Senser, and Aztlan Underground, or fun/aggression-oriented artists like Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Crazy Town, Linkin Park and The Bloodhound Gang. Moreover, the band Zebrahead was recently popularized for their mixture of rapcore and funk/techno elements.

Hip hop/Rap

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