Nu R&B

Nu R&B is a subgenre of alternative R&B that combines elements of other music genres such as hardcore hip hop, drill music, industrial music, grime and neo-soul. Nu R&B rarely features elements common with more hip hop-influenced forms of R&B such as the usage of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on "harsher" funk rhythms. Vocal styles in nu R&B include singing, rapping, toasting and screaming.

Nu R&B began to see a rise in mainstream popularity in 2019 as a opposition to the rise of trap music, a genre of which many nu R&B performers - such as Charly Bampfield, Laurène and Adelaide Morgan - have been known to be against.