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| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + Old-School HipHop, AlternativeRock |
| 4 | ] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | [floatboxright: |
| 7 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 8 | + {{Soul}}, {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, occasional PunkRock, {{Blues}}, CountryMusic and FolkMusic influences on some artists |
| 9 | ] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Alternative hip-hop (also known as alternative rap) is a SubGenre of hip-hop music that is defined in greatly varying ways. Allmusic defines it as a form of hip- that refuses to conform to any of the traditional genres of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap. Instead, alternative hip-hop artists push the boundaries of the medium by blurring genres--drawing from other musical traditions like funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul, alternative rock, punk, reggae, and even folk (though many acts, particularly older ones, do still adhere to a traditional boom bap framework); and focusing on lyrical themes, concepts, and subject matter that mainstream hip-hop tends to ignore. In some circles, the sub-genre is also known as "backpack rap" or "hipster hip-hop", due to its perceived greater appeal to fans of genres like AlternativeRock and Indie. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Closely related to ConsciousHipHop. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ----- |
| 16 | !!Notable Artists: |
| 17 | [[index]] |
| 18 | * [[Music/ThirdBass 3rd Bass]] |
| 19 | * Music/AesopRock |
| 20 | * Music/DieAntwoord |
| 21 | * Music/ArrestedDevelopment |
| 22 | * Music/ASAPRocky |
| 23 | * Music/{{Backxwash}} |
| 24 | * Music/BalmingTiger |
| 25 | * Music/{{Basehead}} |
| 26 | * Music/BeastieBoys (beginning with ''Paul's Boutique'') |
| 27 | ** 1989 - ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' |
| 28 | * Music/{{Beck|Musician}} (among [[GenreBusting many others]]) |
| 29 | ** 1994 - ''Music/MellowGold'' |
| 30 | ** 1996 - ''Music/{{Odelay}}'' |
| 31 | ** 2005 - ''Music/{{Guero}}'' |
| 32 | * Music/{{Blackbear}} |
| 33 | * Music/TheBlackEyedPeas (until their GenreShift to GlamRap/Pop during the recording of ''Elephunk'', but eventually went back to full-blown alternative hip hop in ''Masters of the Sun Vol. 1'') |
| 34 | * Music/BlackSheep |
| 35 | * Music/BigKRIT |
| 36 | * Music/BrandNubian |
| 37 | * Music/{{BROCKHAMPTON}} |
| 38 | * Music/TheCorrespondents |
| 39 | * Music/DannyBrown |
| 40 | * Music/BustaRhymes |
| 41 | * Music/{{Buttress}} |
| 42 | * Camp Lo |
| 43 | * Music/CannibalOx |
| 44 | * Music/{{Caparezza}} |
| 45 | * Music/{{Champtown}} |
| 46 | * Music/ChanceTheRapper |
| 47 | * Music/NenehCherry (along with ContemporaryRAndB, {{Jazz}} and TripHop) |
| 48 | * Music/ChildishGambino |
| 49 | * Music/{{Clipping}} |
| 50 | * Music/{{Clouddead}} |
| 51 | * Music/CompanyFlow |
| 52 | * Music/{{Common}} (also ConsciousHipHop) |
| 53 | * Music/{{Consolidated}} (also AlternativeDance, with pronounced {{Industrial}} influences) |
| 54 | * Music/CoolKids |
| 55 | * Music/TheCoup (also ConsciousHipHop) |
| 56 | * Cunninlynguists |
| 57 | * Music/CypressHill |
| 58 | ** 1993 - ''Music/{{Black Sunday|Album}}'' |
| 59 | * Music/DaBushBabees |
| 60 | * [[Music/{{Dalek}} Dälek]] |
| 61 | * Music/DasRacist |
| 62 | * Music/DeLaSoul (UrExample) |
| 63 | * Music/LanaDelRey |
| 64 | ** 2012 - ''Music/BornToDie'' |
| 65 | ** 2019 - ''Music/NormanFuckingRockwell'' |
| 66 | * Music/DelThaFunkeeHomosapien (TropeCodifier) |
| 67 | ** Music/Deltron3030 |
| 68 | * Music/{{Dessa}} |
| 69 | * Music/DeathGrips |
| 70 | * Music/{{Diafrix}} |
| 71 | * Music/DigablePlanets |
| 72 | * Music/DigitalUnderground |
| 73 | * Music/DisposableHeroesOfHiphoprisy (combined with {{Industrial}} Music, bizarrely enough) |
| 74 | * Music/DoctorSteel |
| 75 | * Music/{{Doomtree}} |
| 76 | * Music/EarlSweatshirt (possibly on ''Doris'', definitely on ''I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside'' and ''Some Rap Songs'') |
| 77 | ** 2018 - ''Music/SomeRapSongs'' |
| 78 | * Music/ElP |
| 79 | * Music/EpikHigh |
| 80 | * Eyedea |
| 81 | * Music/{{Flobots}} |
| 82 | * Music/FlyingLotus, including Captain Murphy |
| 83 | * Music/FortMinor |
| 84 | ** 2005 - ''Music/TheRisingTied'' |
| 85 | * Music/TheFugees |
| 86 | ** 1996 - ''Music/TheScore'' |
| 87 | * Music/GEazy |
| 88 | * Music/GangStarr |
| 89 | * Music/GoodieMob |
| 90 | * Music/{{Grandson}} |
| 91 | * Hieroglyphics (TropeCodifier) |
| 92 | * Music/LaurynHill |
| 93 | ** 1998 - ''Music/TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill'' |
| 94 | * Music/TheHistorianHimself |
| 95 | * Music/HoboJohnson (mixed with PopPunk, slam poetry, and who knows what else) |
| 96 | * Music/{{Hopsin}} |
| 97 | * Music/JCole |
| 98 | * Music/JDilla |
| 99 | ** 2006 - ''Music/{{Donuts}}'' |
| 100 | * Music/{{JPEGMAFIA}} |
| 101 | * Music/JungleBrothers |
| 102 | * Music/{{Jurassic 5}} |
| 103 | * Music/KFlay |
| 104 | * Music/{{KIZ}} |
| 105 | * Music/KidCudi |
| 106 | * Music/KidsSeeGhosts |
| 107 | * Music/KiloKish |
| 108 | * Music/KittyPryde |
| 109 | * Music/KendrickLamar |
| 110 | ** 2012 - ''Music/GoodKidMAADCity'' |
| 111 | ** 2015 - ''Music/ToPimpAButterfly'' |
| 112 | * Music/LeadersOfTheNewSchool |
| 113 | * Music/LilUglyMane |
| 114 | * Music/LittleBig |
| 115 | * Music/LittleBrother |
| 116 | * Music/LittleShannonDudley |
| 117 | * Music/{{Lizzo}} |
| 118 | * Music/LupeFiasco |
| 119 | * Music/LusciousJackson (mixed with AlternativeRock) |
| 120 | * Music/{{MIA}} |
| 121 | ** 2005 - ''Music/{{Arular}}'' |
| 122 | ** 2007 - ''Music/{{Kala}}'' |
| 123 | * Music/MFDoom |
| 124 | ** ''Music/{{Madvillainy}}'' [As Madvillain with Madlib] (2004) |
| 125 | * Music/MacMiller |
| 126 | * Music/ModSun (early work) |
| 127 | * Music/MosDefAndTalibKweliAreBlackStar |
| 128 | ** Music/MosDef |
| 129 | ** Music/TalibKweli |
| 130 | * Music/MyssKeta |
| 131 | * Music/{{Myzery}} |
| 132 | * Music/RicoNasty (also RapRock and TrapMusic) |
| 133 | * Music/{{OFWGKTA}} |
| 134 | * Music/OliverTree |
| 135 | * Music/OutKast (started to overlap with NeoSoul circa ''Aquemini'') |
| 136 | * Music/ThePharcyde |
| 137 | * Music/PlanB |
| 138 | * Music/PMDawn |
| 139 | * [[Music/{{POS}} P.O.S.]] |
| 140 | * Music/PublicEnemy (although more PoliticalRap, they helped codify this genre and they're often lumped into this category by modern hip hop fans) |
| 141 | ** 1988 - ''Music/ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldUsBack'' |
| 142 | ** 1990 - ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet'' |
| 143 | * [[Music/QTip Q-Tip]] |
| 144 | * Music/QueenLatifah (relatively early in her career, at least) |
| 145 | * Music/RegalPinion |
| 146 | * Music/RizzleKicks |
| 147 | * Music/TheRoots (potential UrExample along with De La Soul, though the latter was releasing material years before they were) |
| 148 | ** 1993 - ''Music/{{Organix}}'' |
| 149 | ** 2006 - ''Music/GameTheory'' |
| 150 | ** 2011 - ''Music/{{undun}}'' |
| 151 | * Music/RunTheJewels |
| 152 | * Sadistik |
| 153 | * Music/SageFrancis |
| 154 | * Music/{{Santigold}} |
| 155 | * Music/SelfInsert passionately fuses hip-hop into mechanical and deconstructive contexts by using extreme digital voice modification and loud, aggressive electronic instruments. |
| 156 | * Music/ShabazzPalaces |
| 157 | * Creator/JadenSmith |
| 158 | * Music/SoulCoughing |
| 159 | * Music/SoulsOfMischief (TropeCodifier, also see Hieroglyphics) |
| 160 | * Music/{{Space}} |
| 161 | ** 1996 - ''Music/{{Spiders|Album}}'' |
| 162 | * Music/{{Spearhead}} |
| 163 | * Music/{{Spose}} |
| 164 | * ''Music/StraightOuttaOz'' |
| 165 | * Music/TheStreets (combined with [[ElectronicMusic UK Garage]]) |
| 166 | * [[Music/StereoMCs Stereo MC's]] |
| 167 | * Music/{{Stetsasonic}} |
| 168 | * Music/SwollenMembers |
| 169 | * Music/TDCruze |
| 170 | * Music/ThatHandsomeDevil |
| 171 | * Music/THEESatisfaction |
| 172 | * Music/TinieTempah definitely has some shades of this. |
| 173 | * Music/{{Torae}} when he isn't straight old school. |
| 174 | * Music/TravisBarker's collaborative works with rappers usually land here, combining hip-hop with AlternativeRock and PopPunk. |
| 175 | * Music/ATribeCalledQuest (TropeCodifier) |
| 176 | ** 1991 - ''Music/TheLowEndTheory'' |
| 177 | ** 1996 - ''Music/BeatsRhymesAndLife'' |
| 178 | * Music/TwentyOnePilots |
| 179 | * Music/TylerTheCreator |
| 180 | ** 2019 - ''Music/{{Igor}}'' |
| 181 | * Music/{{Us3}} |
| 182 | * Music/{{Watsky}} |
| 183 | * Music/ChrisWebby |
| 184 | * Music/KanyeWest: One of the most unique examples, combining alternative hip hop with GlamRap to create his own individual style with a desire to push the envelope production wise on each album he creates, also well known for the Taylor Swift incident. |
| 185 | ** 2004 - ''Music/TheCollegeDropout'' |
| 186 | ** 2010 - ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'' |
| 187 | ** 2013 - ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' |
| 188 | ** 2016 - ''Music/TheLifeOfPablo'' |
| 189 | * [[Music/{{Why}} Why?]] (alt hip-hop is apart of this band's GenreRoulette, along with indie rock and acoustic folk) |
| 190 | * Music/SaulWilliams |
| 191 | [[/index]] |
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