Plugg has been described as "near-ambient and intoxicating", a strong departure from the popular styles of the day.
MexikoDro and his fellow Beatpluggz members gained viewership via the SoundCloud platform, where plugg picked up an underground following. Plugg was inspired by Zaytoven, Project Pat, Juicy J, Gucci Mane, the snap rap group D4L and the Paper Mario Nintendo soundtrack.
Plugg first emerged around 2013 as a cohesive production style of the collective called Beatpluggz incuding Atlanta-based producers MexikoDro and StoopidXool. Origins of plugg music are traced to the gospel and soul-influenced production style of Zaytoven and other southern rap influences, such as OutKast, as well as to loosely related subgenre of hip-hop called Chicago bop, which is a euphoric, fast-paced subgenre of drill music. Zaytoven, whose beats heavily influenced emergence of plugg music Rapping flows, used in plugg, range from aggressive to relaxed and mellow. Vocally, plugg ranges from instrumental beats without vocals, to songs with either rapping or mellow singing. the way it’s intended: as a day-long trance in your isolated abode". As described by a critic, plugg is best intended to be heard alone, " experience. Instead of hi-hats in mainline trap, plugg drumming mainly employs beat skips, crash cymbals and punctuated accent snares on half-beats. multi-instrumental harmonies and melodies, sparse, disjoint and relaxed drum programming with few hi-hats. and catchy, described as having overall lush and jazzy atmosphere, ethereal
Unlike mainline trap, which is defined by bombastic production and rattling hi-hat drum patterns, plugg is said to be dreamy, laidback, atmospheric, spacey, airy, minimal Plugg (also spelled plug ) is a subgenre of trap music, that stems from the production style of Zaytoven, later polished and expanded by beatmakers from Beatpluggz collective, mainly by MexikoDro, StoopidXool and PoloBoyShawty in the mid-2010s via online distribution on platform SoundCloud.
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