The article you posted further proves how dumb the term alternative rap is and how most people don't know shyt about hip hop. Who the fukk wrote that dumb ass article?
Hip hop wouldn't even exist without other genres. Based on this article than The Message was "alternative". And you can tell some white dude who prolly isn't even a fan of the music wrote.
The reason I keep bringing up Dr. Dre is for context purposes. If Organized Noize was doing the same thing as Dre wouldn't that make him alternative rap as well? what makes them alternative rap and him not? Please answer the question
I'm not answering your dumb ass question. If you're still asking what alternative hip hop is after all I've provided, you are in fact too lazy to be wasting time on. So I'm done with this convo. It's fukking inane at this point. You're clearly not well read when it comes to this hip hop shyt and for some emotional reason you're not putting in any effort. I'm here posting receipts - interviews, links to better explain shyt. And you're sitting here on some child shyt like: 'no! What about [insert any rap group that is NOT Outkast]'
You've brought nothing to the table but deflections. Zero comprehension, zero details on the actual topic. I don't mind you disagreeing with me but you gotta do way better than this.
I can't for the life of me understand how someone can't see the obvious. There are LEVELS to this hip hop shyt and there always have been. Just because something has a hip hop drum in it doesn't make it 100% hip hop - in fact, shyt might not even be hip hop at all. Just because something has rhymes in it doesn't make it 100% hip hop. There are degrees to which people use hip hop in their music. Outkast use hip hop to a lesser degree than Mobb Deep. And you can tell by how aggressive/not aggressive the drums/melodies are (hip hop at its core is aggressive, raw) and how the song is structured (verses, scratch chorus or nah, lack of a chorus, sing songy hooks, use of bridges or nah, etc). Hip hop is a feeling. You listen to this genre long and deep enough you just know who's doing hip hop for real, who's kinda doing it, and who's pretending to do it while not even being in the ballpark.





There are posters on here that are younger than you and I who clearly have a better grasp on hip hop than all the old shytposters in The Booth.
