File under “techno that pumped so much iron it became as ripped as Joey Swoll.” A decade later, phonk is now completely unrecognizable—detached from its subcultural rap roots and any kind of ...

[Victor Diaz] figured there had to be a better way, so he went on and created PHONK, the self-contained creative scripting toolbox for Android. PHONK is installed like any other app, and allows ...

The album is structured as a DJ-set-meets-mixtape, hosted by phonk producer DJ Smokey — who, he says early on, “recommends you listen to this album from start to finish.” Andy Warhol follows ...

But the sound really goes back to the ’90s: Memphis rap was the key influence for them and many other phonk heads like DJ Smokey, who would rewire Playa Fly and Kingpin Skinny Pimp vocals with ...