The main purpose in using electronic instruments for the production of the music was to take the tedious repetition of the beat out of the creative process. The original artist recognised by the hip hop industry as the first to experiment with these samples in boom bap was DJ Marley Marl. Musical programmers used digital sampling synthesizers to create more complex layers of sampled sounds and multi-layered drumbeats.
Some examples of percussion instruments included were shakers, tambourines, bongos, and cowbells.
Over time more percussion instruments were added to add to the complexity of the beat. The focus originally was on the simplicity of the beat whereas in later developments of the subgenre electronic samplers and beatmakers were used to generate the iconic beat. The original songs produced within the subgenre used the actual sounds of kick drums and hard-hitting snare drums or samples from vinyl records. The success of the album popularised the term boom bap. The subgenre became increasingly better known when KRS-One released an album under the title Return of the Boom Bap. He states the term was used by the wider hip-hop community as a term to describe all hip hop and the beat that is produced for it. DJ Premier suggested that boom bap existed before the production of "It's Yours". The term later became a universal name for the subgenre of hip hop as a whole. This was the first recorded onomatopoeic expression of the beat. T La Rock spoke in an off-script fashion, using the words "boom bap" to mimic the sound of the rhythm. The term boom bap originated in 1984 when it was used by T La Rock to describe the beat of the kick drum and the snare in the song "It's Yours". Key producers include DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, Large Professor, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, J Dilla, Statik Selektah, RZA, Q-Tip, The Alchemist, Daringer, Black Milk, Apollo Brown, 9th Wonder, Havoc, Da Beatminerz, Buckwild, Lord Finesse, Diamond D, and Showbiz. the Rugged Man, Boot Camp Clik, Griselda, Wu-Tang Clan, Jay-Z, Common, A Tribe Called Quest and The Notorious B.I.G. Prominent hip hop artists that incorporated "boom bap" in their music include Craig Mack, Run-DMC, Nas, LL Cool J, Gang Starr, KRS-One, Mobb Deep, R.A. The style is usually recognized by a main drum loop that uses a hard-hitting, acoustic bass drum sample on the downbeats, a snappy acoustic snare drum sample on the upbeats, and an "in your face" audio mix emphasizing the drum loop, and the kick-snare combination in particular. The term "boom bap" is an onomatopoeia that represents the sounds used for the bass (kick) drum and snare drum, respectively. Boom bap is a subgenre and music production style that was prominent in East Coast hip hop during the golden age of hip hop from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
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