abstract hip-hop

A highly pretentious and not very widely-used term applied to unconventional hip-hop music (most notably artists associated with anticon, but also such artists as Flying Lotus, Busdriver and Prefuse 73).
Synonyms include experimental hip-hop, avant-garde hip-hop and avant-hop.
Some conservative hip-hop fans claim that such music is not truly hip-hop.

A: "James has got such pretentious music taste!"
B: "I thought he liked rap?"
A: "Nah, he's a total hipster-hopper, he just listens to his lame-ass 'abstract hip-hop' bullshit!"

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abstract hip-hop / nerd rap

The brainier styles of an otherwise much-hated music genre.
These only use mixes, or scratch techniques.

Madvillian... oh, who else? I gotta go check my fav-list..be backies in a jiffy!

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