Boom Bap Beats.

Dusty Drums and Sampled Soul

Boom bap takes its name from the sound of the kick and snare that define it: a hard, swung pattern with dusty, vinyl-sampled drums and a jazz or soul loop over the top, typically 85 to 95 BPM. It is the pocket most lyrical rap has been written over for thirty years.

• A heavy kick and cracking snare, swung rather than quantised.
• Drums sampled from vinyl, keeping the noise floor and saturation intact.
• Jazz, soul and library samples chopped into two or four-bar loops.
• An upright or filtered electric bassline walking under the loop.

Writing Over Boom Bap

The swing means your flow can lean slightly behind the grid without sounding late, which is why boom bap suits dense, multisyllabic writing and storytelling verses. Keep the hook simple; the loop is already doing melodic work.

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