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Cloud rap
Other names	Trillwave
Stylistic origins	Hip hop
Cultural origins	2000s
Other topics
Vaporwave

Cloud rap (also known as trillwave)^[1]^[2] is a genre of hip hop music which through its methods of composition intends to produce a hypnagogic, dream-like aesthetic.^{[citation needed]}

History

No definitive point in time can be pinned down as being the inception of cloud rap; however, rapper Lil B is often credited as being the initial pioneer of its style, related to the idea of being "based".^[3] The genre received mainstream recognition through the release of artist A$AP Rocky's album Long. Live. ASAP which featured multiple songs that would fall into the genre of cloud rap.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Colly, Joe. "Wiz Khalifa: Taylor Allderdice | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. pitchfork.com. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
^ Weingarten, Christopher (May–June 2012). "Louder than Bombs". SPIN: 78. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
^ Amarca, Nico. "Cloud Rap: The Spacey, Cyber-Born Hip-Hop Subgenre". Highsnobiety. highsnobiety.com. Retrieved 11 July 2016.

Hip hop

Culture

History

Subgenres

General	Alternative Hipster hop Boom bap Bounce British Road rap Chipmunk soul Chopped and screwed Chopper Cloud rap Comedy Crunk Crunkcore East Coast Freestyle rap Hyphy Jerkin' Instrumental Latin Chicano rap Lofi Miami bass Mumble rap Nerdcore Chap hop Political Conscious Progressive rap Religious Christian Jewish Snap music Southern Turntablism Underground
Hardcore	Dirty rap Gangsta rap Mafioso rap G-funk Horrorcore Memphis rap
Trap music	Afro trap Drill Brooklyn drill Jersey drill Sample drill UK drill Latin trap Phonk Plugg Rage Tread UK trap

Fusion genres

General	Country rap Electro Emo rap Hip hop soul Hip house Industrial Jazz rap New jack swing Pop rap Psychedelic rap Punk rap Ragga Rap opera Rap rock Trip hop
Rap metal	Trap metal Nu metal
Regional	Afroswing Bongo flava Boomba music Cumbia rap Genge Hip hop galsen Hipco Hiplife Igbo rap Kwaito Low bap Motswako Na mele paleoleo Nuyorican rap Romany hip hop Songo-salsa Scam rap Stronda Urban Pasifika Vigilante rap Zenji flava

Derivatives

Electronic	Breakbeat Baltimore club Florida breaks Ghetto house Ghettotech Glitch hop Grime Illbient Freestyle Wonky
Other	Funk carioca Reggaeton Alternative reggaeton

Regional scenes

African	Algerian Angolan Beninese Botswana Gambian Ghanaian Ivorian Kenyan Malawian Mauritian Moroccan Namibian Nigerian Port Harcourt Nigerien Senegalese South African Tanzanian Togolese Zambian Zimbabwean
Asian	Armenian Azerbaijani Bangladeshi Burmese Chinese Indian Desi Indonesian Japanese Korean Malaysian Mongolian Nepalese Pakistani Philippine Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thai
European	Albanian Austrian Belgian Bosnian and Herzegovinian British Celtic Scottish Bulgarian Croatian Czech Dutch Finnish French German Greek Portuguese Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Macedonian Montenegrin Norwegian Polish Romanian Romany Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Ukrainian
Middle Eastern	Arabic Egyptian Iranian Israeli Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Arabian Tunisian Turkish Yemeni
North American	United States: East Coast Baltimore New Jersey New York City Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Midwestern Chicago Detroit Minneapolis/St. Paul Wisconsin Omaha Southern Atlanta Memphis Miami West Coast Northwest Alaska Asian American Latin Native American Outside the US: Canadian Cuban Dominican Haitian Mexican Salvadoran
Oceanian	Australian New Zealand
South American	Brazilian Brasília Chilean Colombian

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+'''Cloud rap''' (also known as '''trillwave''')<ref name=Pitchfork>{{cite web|last=Colly|first=Joe|title=Wiz Khalifa: Taylor Allderdice {{!}} Album Reviews |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16434-taylor-allderdice/|work=Pitchfork|publisher=pitchfork.com|accessdate=15 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=SPIN>{{cite journal|last=Weingarten|first=Christopher|title=Louder than Bombs|journal=SPIN|date=May–June 2012|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBqo82GMV18C&pg=PA78&dq=cloud+rap&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5kLYUtaJKPPnsASMvYDgCQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=16 January 2014}}</ref>  is a genre of [[hip hop music]] which through its methods of composition intends to produce a [[hypnagogic]], dream-like aesthetic.{{cn|date=January 2017}}
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