Raider Klan

Raider Klan (stylized as RVIDXR KLVN) was an American hip hop collective formed in the Carol City neighborhood of Miami Gardens, in 2008.

[7] AllMusic described Raider Klan's Southern hip hop style as "gritty" and "macabre",[1] and Miami New Times described their music as "trad[ing] in the battering sounds of SoundCloud rap, a blood-raw strand of hardcore hip-hop largely pioneered in South Florida".

rap collectives to integrate the style of early-Three 6 Mafia into their music, a pattern subsequently embraced throughout the hip hop scene, namely in the form of ASAP Mob and Drake.

[13] In 2018 article by Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre described Raider Klan members and affiliates such as Denzel Curry, Chris Travis, Xavier Wulf and Bones as pioneers of the Soundcloud rap movement.

[14] The group's form of lyrical self expression was cited by Genius as influential to emotional rappers like XXXTentacion and Lil Uzi Vert.

[16] Rolling Stone described the music of Soundcloud rappers XXXTentacion, Lil Pump, Ski Mask the Slump God, Smokepurpp and WifisFuneral as derived from Raider Klan's material.

[17] From the beginning of their career, Raider Klan made use of hieroglyphs-inspired text, in which most vowels in English language sentences were substituted with "V" or "X", and stylized in all capitals.