Bounce

Bounce is a type of Hip Hop that developed in the housing projects of New Orleans in the early 1990s and is defined by a bassy, midtempo beat with a double-time hi-hat pattern on top alongside steady, syncopated eighth-note clap rhythms. This contrast between the two speeds proved effective as Dance music, lending the genre its 'bounce' title. Beats were commonly put together with the use of drum machines, particularly the Roland TR-808 and later the MPC2000. Originally mixed live for dancing at block parties in the late 1980s, songs were usually centered around call-and-response or chants, emphasizing repetitive vocals and sexual themes. It is also frequently accompanied with twerking, with its clap rhythms meant to resemble the sound of buttocks slapping as they were introduced on Cheeky Blakk’s “Twerk Sumthin'.”