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Sub-genre of house music
Ghetto house
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Stylistic origins
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Cultural origins
| Late 1980s,
Chicago
,
Illinois
, United States
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Derivative forms
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Ghetto house
or
booty house
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
is a subgenre of
house music
which started being recognized as a distinct style from around
1992
onwards.
[1]
It features minimal
808
and
909
drum machine
-driven tracks
[6]
and sometimes sexually explicit
lyrics
.
The template of classic Chicago
house music
(primarily, "It's Time for the Percolator" by
Cajmere
) was used with the addition of sexual lyrics.
[1]
It has usually been made on minimal
equipment
with little or no
effects
. It usually features either a "
4-to-the-floor
"
[7]
kick drum
or beat-skipping
kick drums
such as those found in the subgenre "juke" (full sounding, but not too long or distorted) along with
Roland
808
and
909
synthesized
tom-tom
sounds
, minimal use of
analogue synths
, and short, slightly dirty sounding (both sonically and lyrically)
vocals
samples
, often repeated in various ways. Also common are 808 and 909 clap sounds, and full "
rapped
"
verses
and
choruses
.
Ghetto house music artists include:
DJ Deeon
, Jammin' Gerald,
DJ Funk
, DJ Milton, DJ Slugo, Waxmaster, Traxman, Parris Mitchell.
[8]
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Subgenres
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Chicago juke
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The 2000s saw a rise in juke music (sometimes referred to as
footwork
),
[6]
as a faster variant of ghetto house.
[10]
Chicago juke songs are generally around 150?165 BPM
[7]
with beat-skipping
kick drums
, pounding rapidly (and at times very sparsely) in
syncopation
with crackling
snares
, claps, and other sounds reminiscent of old drum machines.
[10]
The production style is often markedly
lo-fi
, much like
baile funk
. Chicago juke evolved to match the energy of
footwork
, a dance style born in the disparate ghettos, house parties and underground dance competitions of Chicago.
RP Boo
, a former footwork dancer, is generally credited with making the first songs that fall within the canon.
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