Atabagrime: How Puterrier revolutionized music by mixing genres

If you consume Funk and are aware of the new trends that Hip Hop has brought in recent years, you will surely have heard about it. Puterrier is originally from the north of Rio de Janeiro and went viral on TikTok last year, distinguishing himself as a versatile and impactful artist.

The hit “Putaria 2000” was an official trend in short videos. “Marolento,” featuring Borges, currently has more than 19 million streams.

The artist made himself known from the Brasil Grime Show and, from a click of ideas, had the idea of ​​mixing Rio funk with grime, becoming the precursor of Atabagrime.

“The idea of ​​mixing funk with grime came at a very crucial time in my life, where I took a break to understand myself as an artist. At that time I was going to funk parties a lot and I also discovered Brasil Grime Show , that’s when I thought ‘why not combine Rio funk with grime?’.

There were already other artists in the scene who did this like Vandal, SD9, I listened to their sound a lot, but I realized that they used more grime, which is electronic music, than funk, and I did the opposite, I added 80 % funk and 20% grime, that’s what Febem does with São Paulo funk, while I do atabagrime, which is Rio’s atabaque with grime.” Puterrier explains.

Despite the satisfactory numbers, the artist explains that it took some work to introduce the new musical genre to the market, saying that he uses different strategies to win over the public and have a good reception from fans at each show and release.

“At first I felt the audience was reluctant, I think because it’s a new beat, a different kind of thing, it’s very fast. I added more funk and gradually managed to win over the Atabagrime fans.

Even today on the show, in some lesser known songs, I see that there are some people who seem a little scared and I understand why there are so many beats, but then I win the audience over in other ways, recently I played a sample of “Crazy in Love”, by Beyoncé, and the kids really liked it, everyone relaxes when they play this and I’m also preparing some elements of Rio’s culture to bring to the stage, I find these outlets for people to identify with not only the sound, but with me and the concept I want to convey.

From this creative point of view, Puterrier impresses with releases and a strong rhythm of shows, breaking it all down with funk songs, becoming that wild card for event producers more focused on hip hop. The boy plays both, there is nothing to do.

Source: Terra

Earl

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