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Describe Hashtag Rap Here... TV Tropes! Also called punchline rap, this is a trend in the late 2000's and 2010's in rap, pop, and R&B lyrics where the lyric is followed by a pause, then an unconnected phrase (often a noun phrase) intended to be compared to the preceding lyric, like a hashtag on Twitter. For example, from Bruno Mars' "Gorilla": Not "like a gorilla", or "as hard as a gorilla", or even "I'm a gorilla", just... "gorilla." Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Since it comes at the end of a line, this trope is handy for creating rhymes, and their unconnected nature allows them to be squeezed into just a few syllables without ruining the rhythm. They are also a common vehicle for a Shout-Out, since (just as with a simile) you can use anything at all that can be compared to the preceding line. In many cases ("Gorilla", "Holy Grail", "Barry Bonds", "Jackie Chan"), they're also used as a Title Drop. Various punctuation is used to represent the pause before the "punchline," including commas, colons, and semicolons. On this page, we use dashes. The term "hashtag rap" was coined by Kanye West on FunkMaster Flex's HOT97 radio show in 2010. Despite the name, the trope is not strictly limited to rap. The inventorship of the technique is disputed but goes back to the early '90s, at least — debate over who created it spawned a mild beef between Kanye West, Big Sean, Lil Wayne, Drake and Ludacris in The New '10s, all of whom claimed it was theirs. Kanye, undisputedly the Trope Namer, claimed to have invented the technique in 2007 in his song "Barry Bonds" ("And here’s another hit — Barry Bonds"), and Big Sean claimed he was the first to do it in his 2009 song "Supa Dupa", though he did at least credit Drake, Lil Wayne (who claimed he invented the style in 2005) and Ye for popularising the technique via their posse cut "Forever"note which also featured Eminem, who did not use hashtag rap in his verse. In 2011, Drake accused Ludacris of stealing his style, and Luda responded with the mixtape skit "History Lesson" in which he played examples of hashtag raps used by Kanye in 2007, Cam'ron in 2003, Method Man in 1998, The Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, Q-Tip in 1991... and finally Ludacris, also in 1991, acidly concluding "I must have stole that shit from myself". Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Discussed in these articles: "5 Things You Didn't Know About Hashtag Rap", "A Brief History of Hashtag Rap", "Hashtag rap: a summary" Hashtag rap started to fall out of fashion around 2014 or so, because its overuse in the first half of the decade started to lead to songs sounding like empty word salad, and a move away towards heavier, more danceable, simpler styles with more emphasis on emotion than on lyricism. It continues to appear in The New '20s on occasion, such as Megan Thee Stallion in her guest verse on "Beautiful Mistakes". Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Examples |
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