Former Detroit music journalist for the Detroit Metro Times, Hobey Echlin describes ghettotech as a genre that combines "techno's fast beats with rap's call-and-response."[2] It features four-on-the-floor rhythms and is usually faster than most other dance music genres, at roughly 145 to 160 BPM. Vocals are often repetitive, crude, and pornographic. As DJ Godfather puts it, "the beats are really gritty, really raw, nothing polished."[3]
A Detroit ghettotech style of dancing is called the jit. This dance style relies heavily on fast footwork combinations, drops, spins and improvisations. The roots of jit date back to Detroit jitterbugs in the 1970s.[5] Chicago's equivalent dance style is Juke, where the focus is on footwork dating back to the late 1980s.[3][6]
^Echlin, Hobey (2016). "Inner-City Blues: The Story of Detroit Techno". In Liebler, M.L. (ed.). Heaven was Detroit. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 368. ISBN9780814341223.
