User:Scarymolecul/sandbox

The Trip Hop genre continues to evolve in a variety of directions; Trip Hop defined as music "characterised by a reliance on breakbeats and a sample-heavy, often moody sound," and "electronic dance music usually based on a slow hip-hop beat and incorporating hypnotic synthesized and prerecorded sounds," can be heard in popular music that plays on top 40 radio stations all the way to music that resides in the most hidden caves of the interweb that only highly skilled hackers have listening access to. Considering that the last bit about the hackers is an exaggerated, self-deluding fantasy, lets explore some musical examples: Young Thug representing top 40 in the left corner of the ring, and Kelela representing the underground to the right. Young Thug can be heard playing from any top 40 radio station in America at almost any given moment, and yet when you listen to his version of hip hop that has been described as "noise rap" that "[unpredictably] bends sound at his whim," you can see that the ambiguous Trip Hop genre has made its mark on the big leagues.