Breakbeats

noun, slang

Hip-hop slang · Rap Dictionary

Definition

Sections of songs that are simplified to just drums and percussions.

Examples

1

We danced all night to breakbeats.

2

I rain acid, grate your crew to steak meat The stakes increase on breakbeats, your fleet fleets run" - Ras Kass, Remain Anonymous.

3

You stumble through breakbeats but you'll never fade me Scared straight 'cause you hate, when I motivate" - 2Pac, Scared Straight.

4

Who you know worth 50 million, still rappin on breakbeats?" - Logic, YSIV.

5

Bread and butter, breakbeats to Bam Bam Jump off the jim before I jack my johnson" - Redman, Hardcore.

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