[11] The next year rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot teamed up with Metal Church for his 1988 single "Iron Man", from his debut album Swass, loosely based upon the Black Sabbath song of the same name.

[12][13] Anthrax in 1991 teamed up with Public Enemy for a remake of the latter's "Bring the Noise" that fused hip hop with thrash metal.

For instance, the band Faith No More's song "Epic" was a major success and peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[17] 1993 saw the release of the Judgment Night soundtrack that featured numerous collaborations between rappers, musicians and rock and metal group of bands.

[19] Biohazard played on the Ozzfest mainstage alongside Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer, Danzig, Fear Factory, and Sepultura.

This led to substantial airplay of the single "I Am The Bullgod" during the summer and fall of 1998 on Massachusetts rock staples WZLX and WAAF.

[20] The following single "Cowboy", a mix of southern rock, country, and rap, was an even bigger hit, making the Top 40.

Rock's next single, the slow back porch blues ballad "Only God Knows Why", was the biggest hit off the album, charting at No.

[22] It reached the height of its popularity during 1999,[23] with the Port Huron Times-Herald describing the summer of that year as a "bipolar menu of harsh rap-metal and gooey teen pop.

[25] Pop punk musician Jeff Brogowski told The Morning Call newspaper in 1999 that "these macho rap-metal bands are just so mean-spirited.

Cypress Hill incorporated direct heavy metal influences into their 2000 album Skull & Bones, which featured six tracks in which rappers B-Real and Sen Dog were backed by a band including Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers and Dino Cazares and Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk.

[30] B-Real also formed a rap metal group, Kush, with Wolbers, Fear Factory drummer Raymond Herrera and Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter.

[36] The album was also the best-selling album in all genres in 2001, offsetting sales by prominent pop acts like Backstreet Boys and N'Sync,[37] earning the band a Grammy Award for their second single "Crawling",[38] with the fourth single, "In the End", released late in 2001, becoming one of the most recognized songs in the first decade of the 21st century.

[39][40] The rap rock band Crazy Town also broke into the mainstream success of nu metal with their 1999 album The Gift of Game, especially their number 1 hit single, "Butterfly", which peaked at number 1 on many charts including the Billboard Hot 100 during March 2001, remaining on the Hot 100 for 23 weeks.

[55] It is characterized by distorted beats, hip hop flows, harsh vocals, and can also sometimes feature guitar riffs that are either sampled, synthesized or recorded by an actual guitarist.

[61] Other artists associated with trap metal include Dropout Kings,[62] Bone Crew,[63] Ghostemane,[58] ZillaKami,[64] Fever 333,[65] Ho99o9,[66] City Morgue,[67] Kid Bookie,[68] Kim Dracula,[69] Backxwash,[70] Banshee,[71] Denzel Curry,[72] and $uicideboy$,[52] as well as the early careers of XXXTentacion, 6ix9ine[73] and Ski Mask the Slump God.