Chicago Bop
Chicago bop is an upbeat, dance-driven style of Chicago rap from the early 2010s, named after the bop dance and unrelated to bebop jazz.
Bop tracks use shiny synthesizer melodies, heavy bass and Auto-Tuned, singsong vocals. The style spread around 2013 through dance videos, and writers often described it as a cheerful answer to drill, the darker Chicago rap of the same years, with which it shares much of its production. Its focus on dancing and melody, not menace, is what marks it out.
Artists it is known for: Sicko Mobb, DLOW.
- Family
- Jazz & Blues
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Chicago, early 2010s
- Also called
- bop, bop music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have chicago bop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Chicago Bop artists
Chief Keef
Hi-C
Soulja BoyThe chicago bop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
- Red Bull Music Academy Daily: Sicko Mobb on Bop
- The Fader: DJ Moondawg Shows Chicago's Bright Side with We Invented the Bop 2
- Wikipedia: DLow
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.