Flava Type Beat - Old School Boom Bap Instrumental

Boom Bap - Flava Instrumental (Boombap, Hip Hop, Nineties, Nostalgic, Old School Beat)

Old school boom bap type beat with dusty vinyl noise, stabby sampled chords and punchy 90s drums, made for raw, confident rap verses.

About this Boom Bap Type Beat

Flava is an old school boom bap type beat built from the drums up: a hard kick, a snare that cracks without any gloss, hi hats that stay busy underneath and open hats plus a crash to mark the turnarounds. Over that sits a loop of sampled stabs and chords, a bass line that walks under the kick and a layer of vinyl noise that keeps the whole thing sounding like it came off a record rather than a laptop. The mood moves between flirty and frantic, which is why it suits a verse that talks its way in and then gets loud.

Nas type beat, Griselda type beat: the lane it walks

If you have been hunting for a boom bap type beat that respects the era, this is the pocket. Nothing here is quantised into shine and there is no modern bounce underneath: it is the same swing a nas type beat or a wu tang type beat lives on, with the dust of a griselda type beat and the loop-first discipline of an mf doom type beat. A rapper who writes in bars instead of hooks settles into it straight away, because the stab carries the hook, the drums do the talking and the low end leaves a clear seat for the voice.

Where it fits in a track

This one is made for verses. It opens clean enough to sit first on a tape, holds through two or three sixteen-bar runs without wearing out and takes a scratched hook or a sung bridge without losing its footing. Anyone digging through a 90s hip hop type beat or an old school boom bap type beat will recognise the references: sampled chords, a bass that answers the kick and percussion that pushes rather than decorates. It also works under a posse cut, since the pocket stays steady and the drums leave space between the snare and the next bar.

The rest of the catalogue moves from boombap and nineties hip hop into trap, R&B and electronic instrumentals, so the next beat you need is probably already there, with instant delivery and clear licence options.