SoundCloud’s SCENES Highlights Rising Plugg Rap Movement
[ad_1] Plugg rap has moved from Atlanta to a global sound thanks to its artists and the internet. Now, SoundCloud, which saw the subgenre bubbling up on its platform and highlighted it in a playlist in 2021, is further supporting the growing movement in its award-winning music discovery series SCENES.Today (June 7), SoundCloud's SCENES takes a deep dive into plugg rap and its key players in the latest episode titled SCENES: Plugg, which dropped on SoundCloud's YouTube channel. Derived primarily from the Dirty South's 808-heavy trap sound that exploded in the early 2000s, plugg rap is an increasingly popular subgenre of hip-hop. With spacey, ambient and often airy-sounding melodies over thick basslines and Southern-influenced drum patterns, plugg rap is in a lane of its own, and its...