This song comes under the category genre of Hip-Hop/Rap. In the late 1970s, hip-hop first appeared in the South Bronx neighbourhood of predominantly African American New York City. This genre was formerly known as Disco Rap. There was a widespread popularization of Hip Hop in the 1980s- 90s.  The main instruments used for this genre are turntables; DJ mixer; drum machine; music sequencer; synthesizer and the keyboard. The musical genre incorporated rhyming speech, which emerged as the movement's longest-lasting and most significant artistic expression (Tate).

Purp released "Elastic," a song that is unmistakably influenced by the warm, bubbling beat of vintage Chicago dance music. It includes Chicago house music-inspired elements. In the song, Purp raps with grace and ease over a choppy yet catchy beat that features a classic Billy Squire sample among other things (Breihan, 2018). It is a way of perceiving, honouring, experiencing, comprehending, confronting, and making comments on life and the universe. In other words, hip hop is a way of life—a culture. This was also a dance party culture that attracted other sorts of art such as DJing, Rapping, Breaking, Writing, Theatre and Literature and Knowledge of Self (McCollum & Resnick, 2019).