It's a fusion of Classic/Alternative-Rock, Funk Rock, Hip-Hop & Soul combined with soulful overtones as well as melodic choruses. Music considered to soulful to be completely rock and to alternative rock to be R&B Hip-Hop.
The word was introduced by Urban Rock Band The Rocturnals formerly known as KansasCali in early 2000 to describe their style of music.
The difference between rock music and urban rock music is that urban rock is a little more melodic & bottom heavy.
The type of music that calms you and listen in the dark at 3 am when your in your feels. Artists including Jhene Aiko, Bryson tiller and Giveon produce this type of music.
You: I can’t sleep and it’s 3am
*im gonna play some urban contemporary music to put me in my feels*
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)