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{{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
(contracted; show full) 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 Stone]]'' |date=March 2, 2000 |accessdate=2008-07-19 }}</ref>Esham's genre of "acid rap" also fits comfortably in the [[hardcore hip hop]] and [[horrorcore]] categories, as it often involves eerie mind-bending lyrics about
 sex, drugs, paranoia, murder, gore, and the [[occult]]. Followers of Esham include [[Eminem]], who was associated with and often placed in the acid rap genre early in his career prior to his widespread popularity.<ref name="Cohen">{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Sara |title=Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond The Beatles |year=2007 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=0754632431 |pages=page 52 |quote=The music journalist and author Dan Sicko describes certain strai(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]]