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Miami bass · 808 sub · Latin crossover
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Story, bloodline and 8 names

Miami bass came out of car audio: 808 kick drums tuned for a trunk. 2 Live Crew then took an obscenity conviction to a federal appeals court and won — a First Amendment case that protects rap lyrics to this day. Later the city became the pipeline between American rap and Latin music.

Bloodline · 1 stop from The Bronx
  1. 1973The Bronx
  2. 1985Miami

Electro's 808 met Caribbean sound-system culture in a city full of both — then Miami tuned the kick drum for car trunks and never turned it back down.

Next stopsSan Juan, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta

Luke RecordsSlip-N-SlideMaybach MusicWe the Best
Roster
1986
2 Live Crew

Miami bass, and the landmark obscenity case they won on appeal.

YTW
1997
Trick Daddy & Trina

Slip-N-Slide's pair; the city's definitive local voices.

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2004
Pitbull

Cuban-American Miami rap that became global pop.

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2006
Rick Ross

Maybach Music: opulence as a production aesthetic.

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2006
DJ Khaled

Made the compilation-as-personality into a business model.

YTW
2011
SpaceGhostPurrp / Raider Klandeep cut

The Memphis-worshipping collective that seeded the whole SoundCloud era.

YTW
2016
Denzel Currydeep cut

Carol City; the technically fiercest of the SoundCloud generation.

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2018
City Girls

Yung Miami and JT — Miami bluntness at streaming scale.

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