Over the last couple years, one of the country's most exciting music scenes has been the bop movement on the West Side of Chicago. Taking the unhinged, Auto-Tuned glee of artists like Soulja Boy and Chief Keef and blowing it out to cartoonish extremes at super high speeds, bop is like a bubblegum pop distortion of hip-hop. Not only is it fun as hell to listen to, it's also a major dance craze across the city's West Side (check out the final minute of the video below for an example). Chicago may be known for the dark, downcast sounds of South Side drill music, but bop is the West Side's upbeat, colorful answer.The indisputable luminaries of the bop movement are Sicko Mobb, the teenage, red-dreadlocked duo of Lil Trav (longer hair) and Lil Ceno (shorter hair), whose song "Fiesta" was one of last year's breakout hits in Chicago. Also key is DJ Nate, a footwork production prodigy whose 2012 song "Gucci Goggles" is one of the first, if not the first, genuine bop hits. Recently, Nate has been producing songs for Sicko Mobb, and the combination is killer. "House Party," off Sicko Mobb's upcoming sophomore mixtape, dropped a couple days ago, bringing together Nate's frenetic production and Sicko Mobb's instinctive hook-writing skills ("Trav and Lil Ceno 'bout to have a house party!"), and it is fun as hell. Nate gets in a killer verse in the middle, and the whole song is dripping with so much digitized smoothness it could slide in right alongside the experimentalists at the outer fringes of electronic music, like PC Music.Of the video, Sicko Mobb said, "we really had fun making this song and video. DJ Nate is one of Chicago's best producers, so you know it was turnt. We want everyone to turn up and enjoy yourselves off this song." They also promised that Super Saiyan Volume 2, hosted by DJ V Dub, will be dropping before the New Year, presumably just in time for all your New Year's house parties. Get the festivities started below:Follow Kyle Kramer on Twitter.
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