Boom bap drum patterns.

1. 1970s

   1. 1973
      

      Impeach the President

      The Honey Drippers

      Open, cracking snare and kick break; Marley Marl rebuilt it for The Bridge, and boom bap producers have sampled it ever since
   2. 1973
      

      Synthetic Substitution

      Melvin Bliss

      Two-bar Bernard Purdie break; after Ultramagnetic MCs sampled it, it became one of the most sampled songs

2. 1980s

   1. 1984
      

      It's Yours

      T La Rock & Jazzy Jay

      Rick Rubin's 808 production; T La Rock ad-libs 'boom bap' at the end, the earliest recorded use of the name
   2. 1986
      

      Landmark

      The Bridge

      MC Shan

      Marley Marl samples and rearranges the Impeach the President break; cited as the first reconfigured drum-break sample
   3. 1986
      

      Ego Trippin'

      Ultramagnetic MCs

      Ced-Gee's dense, minimal production; first record to sample the Synthetic Substitution break
   4. 1987
      

      Rebel Without A Pause

      Public Enemy

      Bomb Squad lifted the tempo to about 109 BPM against a 98 BPM norm; Flavor Flav played the beat on an electronic drum
   5. 1988
      

      The Symphony

      Marley Marl ft. Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap & Big Daddy Kane

      Marley Marl's sampled-break beat for four Juice Crew MCs; Rolling Stone calls it the first truly great posse cut

3. 1990s

   1. 1990
      

      Looking At The Front Door

      Main Source

      Large Professor's layered SP-1200 drums over a Donald Byrd loop; Breaking Atoms shaped 90s New York sampling
   2. 1991
      

      Buggin' Out

      A Tribe Called Quest

      Q-Tip's first track layering two drum breaks at once; the stripped vocals-drums-bass sound of The Low End Theory
   3. 1992
      

      Landmark

      They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

      Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

      Pete Rock's sax-led Tom Scott loop over a swung break; regularly ranked among hip hop's greatest beats
   4. 1993
      

      Landmark

      C.R.E.A.M.

      Wu-Tang Clan

      RZA's soul loop over hard, bass-heavy, unpolished drums; set the gritty mid-90s New York drum sound
   5. 1993
      

      Return of the Boom Bap

      KRS-One

      Title track of the album that popularised the name; KRS-One framed it as a return to raw kick-and-snare production
   6. 1994
      

      N.Y. State of Mind

      Nas

      DJ Premier sets Kool & the Gang's N.T. drum break under a Joe Chambers piano loop; core Illmatic sound
   7. 1994
      

      Unbelievable

      The Notorious B.I.G.

      DJ Premier chops the Impeach the President drums at Biggie's request; the classic break re-cut for the mid-90s
   8. 1995
      

      Landmark

      Shook Ones, Pt. II

      Mobb Deep

      Havoc sequenced Daly-Wilson Big Band drums on an MPC60 under a slowed Herbie Hancock sample; peak hardcore boom bap

4. 2000s

   1. 2000
      

      Fall In Love

      Slum Village

      J Dilla's unquantized MPC drums mix straight and swung time; his 'drunk' feel reshaped how producers and drummers play

5. 2010s

   1. 2012
      

      Survival Tactics

      Joey Bada$$ & Capital STEEZ

      From the 1999 mixtape, which drew on beats from Lord Finesse, MF Doom and J Dilla; a key 2010s boom bap revival release

6. 2020s

   1. 2020
      

      Scottie Beam

      Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist ft. Rick Ross

      Alchemist's loop-led, slow-rolling production on Alfredo; critics heard 'glacial boom-bap' in the modern underground

Press play to loop each record's busiest two bars. Patterns are machine-detected from the recordings, not verified transcriptions.