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Britcore
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English
Etymology
From en Brit -core<id:music>.
Noun
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en music genre A fast subgenre of UK rap that emerged in the late 1980s.
en-GB Steve Yates Rhymin' and stealin' The Guardian 2005-01-23 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jan/23/popandrock.llcoolj 0261-3077 But by 1988 the dominant UK offshoot of American hip hop isn't reggae-rap but ‘Britcore’, a hyper-speed blizzard of noise indebted to Public Enemy.
en United Kingdom