A style of hip-hop music with high energy, repetitive chants, and heavy electronic beats; to get excited or energized, especially at a party or event.
Emerged in early 2000s Southern hip-hop, particularly in Memphis and Atlanta. Possibly derived from drunk + crazy, or from the sound of the music itself; popularized by artist Lil Jon around 2003.
Crunk is a relatively recent word that shows how music genres can birth entirely new vocabulary—it jumped from slang to dictionary entries in less than a decade, proving modern culture moves faster than language traditionally did!
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