phrase Street Slang

brown beat

· phrase · nola / bounce

Cameron Paul's 1987 drum loop — bounce's second foundational sample.

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The drum break from Cameron Paul's 1987 'Brown Beats' breakbeat record, the other DNA strand of New Orleans bounce alongside the Triggerman. Producers and DJs layer it under chants and call-and-response to keep the second-line bounce in the pocket.

“That track is pure Brown Beat under the chant.”
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brown beat In A Sentence

That track is pure Brown Beat under the chant.

Origin & Usage

Cameron Paul's 'Brown Beats' (1987, Mixx-It Records); absorbed into NOLA bounce production in the early 1990s.

Variants brown beats
Tags #nola#bounce#hip-hop#samples

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