What is crunk?

Answer 1

By Steve Jones, USA TODAY
Hip-hop's hottest trends have a habit of bubbling up from the underground. Now it's crunk music, with its rowdy exhortations to get buck-wild, that has busted up through the concrete. (Beyond words: : Hear and see crunk's stars.)

Killer Mike's crunk album Monster arrived in March.


When performed live or played in clubs, crunk's loud, hard-driving beats and rebellious chants inspire rambunctious behavior similar to slam dancing or mosh-pit kinetics, with people yelling, jumping and throwing 'bows. The riotous, anthemic music, which grew out of Atlanta and has been popular in the South for years, has the whole country getting crunk.

With stars such as Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz (Get Low, with the Ying Yang Twins), David Banner (Like a Pimp, with Lil' Flip), Killer Mike (A.D.I.D.A.S.), Bone Crusher (Never Scared, with Killer Mike and T.I.) and T.I. himself (24's) getting major-label backing and heavy radio and video airplay, the party is on. (Related story:Who's who in crunk.)

"Crunk music is something parallel to rock 'n' roll or punk rock because of the energy it gives you," says Lil' Jon, whose Kings of Crunk album is No. 34 after 38 weeks on the chart. "It's designed to get you hyper and to get the party off the hook. The music is so powerful, you can't deny it."

It's also a break from the norm. Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, editor in chief of the DJ-oriented magazine Emixshow, says that although most of the hip-hop industry is grappling with what comes next after Jay-Z and Nas, crunk is filling the creativity vacuum. He says it has worked to the Southern stars' advantage that they have long been underestimated by the rap establishment while developing their own sound and fan base.

"Fans are tired of hearing every schmo rapper talking about what kind of gun he has over the standard beat," Meadows-Ingram says. "The South has put together a sound that, while influenced by the classic East Coast Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa sounds, has all this bounce and bass music, and it has melded into something that is a breath of fresh air."

Rapper Pastor Troy says: "People are just starting to be more receptive to it. All of us artists down here are pulling for each other, trying to break new ground."

Answer 2

its like a crazy style of dancing and/or singing Chris Brown does it really good in the end of his yo video with the preview of gimme that..and Ciara and Lil Jon are crunk artist!

Answer 3

Its like getting hype. You can do it by getting drunk or just being really excited.

Answer 4

im guession a blend of country, rock and punk

Answer 5

it's getting wasted...

Answer 6

its getting really drunk.