What Do They Mean When They Call Hip Hop “Alternative”?
Watch Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/fight-power-how-hip-hop-changed-world/
Watch Hip Hop & the Metaverse: https://youtu.be/Cs2azOCBF1M
We dive into the world of alternative Hip Hop and explore what it even means for Hip Hop to be called alternative. Our hosts, Arthur and Linda, take a deep dive into the history of the word alternative in music and how it relates to rap and r&b. Covering the journey of artists like The Pharcyde, Odd Future, and Missy Elliott.
To help us understand the concept of alternative Hip Hop, Arthur meets with Robeson “Taj” Frazier, PhD, host of Hip Hop and the Metaverse. Together, they discuss how Hip Hop is plural and how the term alternative has been used in the genre over the years.
In addition, Linda sits down with rising r&b star Jean Deaux to talk about the originality of her music and how she fits into the alternative Hip Hop landscape. Jean Deaux shares her unique perspective on the creative process and how she is carving out her own space in the music world.
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October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
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@sergeigen1
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Oh man , this rabbit hole goes deep
@sj187
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I cane up with "alternative hip hop" to describe my style of music i take part in
@MarshallMathers3000
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Billy Woods
@Simi.Sun_
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
As a HipHop/Sol artist who identifies as alternative… and just as a lover and as a lover of hip-hop and music in general, I love this show! Subscribed 😎. Lol. Thank you! I’m going to play with the track & tag you guys!
@Gilbert440
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Rock is rock and rap is rap. These are two completely different genres. One day people might say country music is the new rap or classical music is the new rap. Also when you search for rock music does that mean you get rap music now instead. Does old rock stop existing or does it get renamed? What’s wrong with rap just being rap? Is it not good enough to be what it was created as?
@TheElectro2009
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Hip hop blows
@borismichajlovic5853
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Maybe I'm just old, but did anybody here even mention Beastie Boys? How about every album past "Paul's Boutique"?
@Snotboxrocked156
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I just look at it as a sub genre of hip hop that folks who arent really into traditional hip hop would listen to.
@envyops
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Alternative Hip Hop became a media term to describe artists that refused to sell themselves ad black stereotypes.
All the white kids thought snoop dogg was the real hip hop and MTV couldn't ruin it.
@ambriehlcrutchfield9786
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I love that you all experimented with creating you alls own song and putting it on SoundCloud!
@alimcb94
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
A tribe called quest
@JaeHavoc
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I did not expect y’all to mention Doomtree next to Missy Elliot and Outkast, but I’m here for it! That being said, I’m also an “alternative “ hip hop artist from Minnesota and just dropped a new album! Check me out!
@Tympeace1
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
His is the most industry pushed doc I've seen. Their was never a alternative hip hop. Hip Hop was inspiration for right and got exploited. Gangster rap was the alternative so don't make it like the fans chose that. That's how the industry took control of rap, but never hip hop. They paid rappers cause the artists didn't accept that BS or it wouldn't be their art. Smh.
@kylemarcum3975
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Is this Alternative Hip Hop?
https://youtu.be/aQaDclN8VjE
@fedoramcclaren4294
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I wonder why folks forget Lil Wayne's first album was released in 1995…
@mfathelyricist
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
These are alternative facts.
@SLFKimosabae
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I don't know if I should give props or feel appalled that Aesop Rock's name wasn't mentioned ONCE in this entire video.
@3.0TMKreaZ
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Why bring up odd Future if y'all were just gonna skip past it and talk about Igor? Also, Tyler the Creator had sampling like Igor as far back as Cherry bomb
@jonnywuzhere5
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I love this channel !!!!! ✨✨✨
@jstnurmind
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Hip hop is a BLESSING
@cosmicghost811
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
The best form of hip-hop.
@owensmith2137
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Big oversight when you lumped Biggie in the same era as Public Enemy when Ready To Die came out 7 years after Yo! Bum Rush The Show, totally different era! 🤦🏻
@BusyAsBee1738
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Oopoi
@leedza
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I'm sure black folk or real hip hop fans didn't coin those terms. It's just the same story of the industry trying to set boundaries for things they don't understand or don't fit commercial formulas they have set.
@mxmirage
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
i would love an evolution of the jungle and dnb breakcore genre that would be so fab!
@robertacosta6633
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
White person or loner troll
Name
@RJ
Racial slurs was just used
On Comment board
@deedwayne2752
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Hip means Conscience, Hop means Movement ~ KRS ONE. Hip (mic in one's hand rapping anything) while Hop (moving as in dancing, nod your head etc)…
@STEPHEN1463
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Hmmmm
@justforfun1647
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
does sidhu moose wala with stefflon don or mist or burna boy or tion wayne fall into this alternative rap category?
@marluvsrap
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
earl sweatshirt
@ceromundo
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Ceromundo makes "Alternative Latin Rap" music. It so Underground the "tortugas Ninjas" need shovels
@gabrielhynes2173
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Surprised that Kool Keith did not get a shout here!
@user50852
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
to me alternative rap is any rap that incorporates other genres more than hip hop itself
@Simonjose7258
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I ❤ Public Television 📺
@_mothmaam_
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Brockhampton too 🥲💞
@josephpullium5026
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
More alternative rappers who influenced today’s mainstream rap:
Kanye West
Travis Scott
Kid Cudi
Kendrick Lamar
SpaceGhostPurp
A$AP MOB
@ReyhanJoseph
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
I thought J Dilla did the passin' me by joint on the Pharcyde record just want somebody to double check them thats all I'm trying to say
@dinocruz3377
October 14, 2024 at 3:32 pm
This is not boxing belts