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Horrorcore

Horrorcore (also known as shock rap, psycho rap, horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, death rap, or murder rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from certain hardcore hip hop and gangsta rap artists, such as the Geto Boys, who began to incorporate…

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Cultural origins
Early-mid 1980s, United States
Other names
Shock rap · horror hip hop · horror rap · death hip hop · death rap
Stylistic origins
Shock rock · horror fiction · shock value · hardcore hip-hop · gangsta rap

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related to Controversy · 24
Horrorcore → After, Bayfield, Brain, Brooks Brown, Brotha Lynch Hung, Brotha Lynch Hung's, Bubba, Colorado, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Gallegos, However, ICP, In, In September, Insane Clown Posse, Insane Clown Posse's, Joseph Edward, Juggalo, Juggalos
related to Rise in the hip hop genre · 21
Horrorcore → Assassins, Behind, Big, Chuckie, Geto Boys, Grip It, He, Insane Clown Posse, Insane Poetry, Lunatic, Making Trouble, Me, Mind, Mind Playing Tricks, On That Other Level, Paint, The Geto Boys, Trigga-Happy Nigga, Violent, We Can't Be Stopped
related to Origins · 17
Horrorcore → Adventures, Dana Dane's, Dr, Dracula, Ganxsta, Geto Boys, Hyde, Jeckyll, Jimmy Spicer's, LA Weekly, Mr, Nightmares, Psycho Rap, Since, Spicer, Super Rhyme, The
Other names · 7
Horrorcore → death hip hop, death rap, horror hip hop, horror rap, murder rap, psycho rap, Shock rap
related to Characteristics · 7
Horrorcore → According, Entertainment Weekly, If, Mars, Stephen King, The, Wes Craven
Stylistic origins · 5
Horrorcore → gangsta rap, hardcore hip-hop, horror fiction, Shock rock, shock value
related to Present-day horrorcore · 5
Horrorcore → Addiction, African American, Blood, In, There Existed
Cultural origins · 1
Horrorcore → Early-mid 1980s, United States

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horror genre rap hip hop artists lyrics music violent insane also album clown hardcore supernatural imagery murder gravediggaz released geto

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HorrorcoreCultural originsEarly-mid 1980s, United States1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther namesShock rap1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther nameshorror hip hop1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther nameshorror rap1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther namesdeath hip hop1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther namesdeath rap1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther namesmurder rap1.00infobox
HorrorcoreOther namespsycho rap1.00infobox
HorrorcoreStylistic originsShock rock1.00infobox
HorrorcoreStylistic originshorror fiction1.00infobox
HorrorcoreStylistic originsshock value1.00infobox
HorrorcoreStylistic originshardcore hip-hop1.00infobox
HorrorcoreStylistic originsgangsta rap1.00infobox

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