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Acid rap
{{Infobox Music genre
|name=Acid rap
|bgcolor=crimson
|color=white
|stylistic_origins=[[Blues]]<br />[[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]<br />[[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]<br>[[Psychedelic music]]<br />[[Rock music|Rock]]
|cultural_origins=Late 1980s [[United States]]
|instruments=[[Rapping]] - [[Drum machine]] - [[Turntablism|Turntables]] - [[Sampler (musical instrument)|Sampler]] - [[Keyboard instrument|Keyboard]]
|popularity=Underground
|derivatives     = [[Horrorcore]] - [[nu metal]] - [[rap rock]] - [[rap metal]]⏎
|local_scenes    = [[Midwest hip hop]]
}} 

'''Acid rap''' is a subgenre of [[alternative hip hop]] in which lyrics are often cryptic, abstract or abnormal, [[trippy]] or [[psychedelic]], spacey, dark or sinister, and sometimes drug or [[science fiction]]-related, with eerie or spaced-out drumbeats and instrumentation. It can sometimes include direct or indirect references to science fiction, outer space, and futuristic themes, such as [[Afrofuturism]], space or time travel, an(contracted; show full), almost cartoon-like version of urban deprivation in Detroit' (cited in Cohen and Strachan, 2005).}}</ref><ref name="BehindthePaint174">{{cite book |last=Bruce |first=Joseph |authorlink=Joseph Bruce |coauthors=Hobey Echlin |editor=Nathan Fostey |title=ICP: Behind the Paint |origdate= |origyear=2003 |origmonth=August |edition=2nd Edition |publisher=Psychopathic Records |location=Royal Oak, Michigan |isbn=034544762X |pages=pages 174—185 |chapter=The Dark Carnival }}</ref> 


  Esham has been cited as one of the innovators of the genre,<ref name="AMGHipHop">{{cite book |editor= |others= |title=All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop |year=2003 |isbn=0879307595 |publisher=Backbeat Books |pages=pages 160—163 }}</ref><ref name="McLeod">{{cite news |first=Rodd |last=McLeod |title=The Wicket World of Natas |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5923056/the_wicket_world_of_natas |publisher=''[[Rolling Sto(contracted; show full)

Alternative names for acid rap include "space rap," "stoner rap," and "trip hop," though trip hop usually refers to the ambient Bristol music genre.

==References==
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[[Category:Hip hop genres]]