Kompa

Another way to spell compas. Literally meaning "beat" or "rythym" in Spanish. Kompa is a Haitian music genre with the stylings of Cuban contradanza, Son Cubano, jazz elements and African rhythms, and Dominican merengue. Unike Zouk, it is sung in mostly Haitian Creole.

Kompa is the national music of Haiti

New York and Miami have the best Compas festivals in North America.

Kompa by se pa pou dat November 30, 2009

Kompa

An easy way to explain kompa is that it is the Haitian version or r&b. A beat with piano, drums, guitar, and sometimes with saxophones or trumpets. Some say that dancing to kompa is like having sex on the dance floor because when dancing to kompa, your abdominal area is mostly used like grinding or just moving side to side on/with your partner.

Kompa is the best Haitian music because the beat is so smoothing !.

Kompa by bruhstawp February 22, 2020

Kompa

when you get lots of pimples on your face

that kid got kompa

Kompa by shdiashdi May 19, 2004

KOMPA

A type of portuguese person that lacks intellectual acuity.

És mesmo um kompa seu autista do caralho

KOMPA by Amigodokompa November 30, 2019

Kompa and Beat 

Kompa and Beat commonly abbreviated as K&B, is a sub-genre of Kompa, also spelled Compas, originating from Haiti, which combines elements of Kompa, Zouk, Gospel, Pop, R&B, Hip Hop, Reggae, Country, R, Latin, and Electronic Dance Music.

She sings up-tempo KomPop songs as well as Kompa and Beat.

Kompa and Beat by Negre Marron Records September 1, 2018

Kompa-Room-Live

Kompa-Room-Live is the Haitian style of the Boiler Room (a global online music broadcasting platform commissioning and streaming)
The difference between the two are: Kompa-Room-Live only showcase up and coming Haitian DJs and only play the latest Kompa and Beat hits in front of a live audience on an open dance floor.

During the live Kompa-Room-Live session the DJ is filmed and recorded using an Omnidirectional_camera which shoots in 360° format that's connected to a personal computer which broadcast to Haitian and Beat Music fans on Youtube and Facebook Livall over the world.

During Kompa-Room-Live the attendees are positioned in front of the DJ booth while dancing, which is really the main attraction at Kompa-Room:

I really love watching Kompa-Room-Live online.

Kompa-Room-Live by Negre Marron Records October 23, 2018

KOMPA DRILL 

KOMPA DRILL often mistakenly referenced as CREOLE-Trap, is a combination of Haitian Kompa, and Sample Drill music.

Characteristic features of KOMPA DRILL production include rap-talk-singing, Flow, “kata” (rim shot) (tresillo, live drums, (typically 80 to 120 beats per minute, or BPM), catchy short riff, Autotune, loops, 808 glides, ear-catching and singable melodies with manipulated Background vocal.

KOMPA DRILL uses replayed samples of older Kompa tracks by composing derivative version of the sample played live by an actual studio or session musician, thus giving it a nostalgic yet modern twist.

Key stylistic elements:

Call and Response, Chant-Rap, Vocalese, Ostinatos and rapped lyrics originated from the real-life experiences (often rap-sing in Haitian French-Creole, Crenglish, and CreoSpañol, FranSpañol which usually feature a guest artist or who 'd contribute a guest verse.

Other elements include a 12 bar bridge section played with a 5/4 timing over Rasin Mizik, (Haitian roots music with more pop-based melodies).

The lyrical content of Kompa drill music tends to be bawdy, cryptic, gritty pithy, provocative and full of voye pwen,” or “sending a point.”

A notable label of this kind of Kompa Drill Music is Negre Marron Records, an Int-y Independent internet record label which was founded in New York City ) 2018) by Rene Guemps.

I wonder if KOMPA DRILL producers will go after sample clearance from the right holders for all the Kompa instrumentals and vocal samples that they interpolate on their tracks Ante or post-Factum?

KOMPA DRILL by Negre Marron Records December 7, 2022