Meanings
alternative triphop · alternative trip-hop
- uncountableA genre of slow electronica combining elements of hip hop with melodic, often psychedelic, sounds and impressionistic lyrics.
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Trip-hop, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. The genre can be described as a slower and dub-influenced reworking of African American hip-hop, aptly described by writer Phil Johnson as “dubbed-up hip-hop derived music...beats whose customary urgency is deconstructed into dreamy, erotic soundscapes.”
2013, Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 235
Origin
Journalistic coinage as a blend of trip (“drug-induced hallucinations”, alluding to psychedelic music) + hip-hop.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Russian трип-хоп
- трип-хоп (trip-xop)Translations
Cite this entry
trip hop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trip%20hop
“trip hop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trip%20hop. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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