Cloud rap (also known as trillwave) is a genre of hip hop music which through its methods of composition intends to produce a hypnagogic, dream-like aesthetic. Cloud rap takes influences from Southern hip hop where many compositions make use of stylistic factors typical of the genre, such as heavy use of drum machines and other trap music elements. What sets cloud rap apart from more contemporary forms of hip hop however is its seemingly antipodal approach to the latter – while hip hop artists generally want to reflect through their instrumentation an image of bravado, cloud rap artists display themselves as being true to themselves. Techniques employed by cloud rap artists to create this effect include ethereal, hypnogogic instrumentation and long harmonic vocalization that can either be