Talk:Crunk

Other contemporaneous usages

If I'm not mistaken, Conan O'Brien used to have a gag promoting "crunk" as a nonsense word to replace censorable language, and there was a character on the "Justice Friends" segments of Dexter's Laboratory, called The Infraggable Krunk. As far as I know, these usages were unrelated (even to each other); but I have wondered if it wasn't just a coincidence, since the music seems to have developed and become popular roughly around the same time as episodes of those shows first aired. B7T (talk) 10:38, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Source for Conan/Late Night Link

Additional Source - Robert Smigel discussing "Crunk" as a pre-Late Night (1993) submission by prospective writer Dino Stamatopoulos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPE_5fx-AIQ

Per Dino: The word, made up to get around censors by Dino as "Cunk" to sound like "Cunt" was part of his 21 submissions to Smigel to become a writer on Late Night. This idea stood out to Smigel as his favorite, and was changed to "Crunk". Similarity to Rap scene Crunk was a coincidence.

Also, I know there's an interview of Snoop Dogg during the 93-94 time frame where Conan "introduces him" to the word Crunk (where it is I don't know), much like Lil Jon explains Crunk to Conan on his current TV show ( http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xi2pun_211411234321_webcam ) , saying "he's heard this word for years but doesn't know what it actually means," which supports that the word on the Late Night show was just a comedy writer's imagination.

If this is significant enough to Wikify, have fun.

Herb Riede (talk) 15:37, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Rename Crunk to Club Music?

The term "Crunk" is definitely out of style. Ariesk47 (talk) 22:19, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

This article refers to the term of its title. Club music is a much more generic term. I vote no.Voila-pourquoi (talk) 00:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

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• From Flockaveli: Amidon, David (November 18, 2010). "Waka Flocka Flame: Flockaveli". PopMatters. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
• From Goodies (album): Burrell, Jalylah (2005-02-10). "Ciara: Goodies". PopMatters. PopMatters. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
• From Radioactive (Yelawolf album): Amidon, David. "Yelawolf: Radioactive". Popmatters. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
• From Promise (Ciara song): http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/ciara-ciara-the-evolution/
• From Blunderbuss (album): Sawdey, Evan. "Jack White: Blunderbuss". PopMatters. Retrieved 24 April 2012.

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A lot of the text in here is so flowery as to be practically meaningless.

> An archetypal crunk track frequently uses a dominant groove composed of a nuanced utilization of intricately multilayered keyboard synthesizers organized in a recurring pattern, seamlessly shifting from a lower to a higher pitch that encompasses the song's primary central rhythm, both in terms of its harmonic and melodic aspects

This sounds like it amounts to “a typical crunk track is grounded in a rhythmic groove, often using synthesisers to carry a repeating melody line, with multilayered harmonics for texture”. But that’s just like most any kind of club music.

Could someone with a particular knowledge of the genre please rewrite this to mean something? 80.47.90.40 (talk) 20:41, 16 October 2024 (UTC)