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Rucka Rucka Ali.
Emo is a style
of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship
and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated
in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington,
D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore"
or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as
Rites of Spring and Embrace. As the style was echoed
by contemporary American punk bands, its sound and meaning
shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie
rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such
as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid
1990s numerous emo acts emerged from the Midwestern
and Central United States, and several independent record
labels began to specialize in the style...
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