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Turns out there's some controversy over the #TripHop label.

The most prominent artists (Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky) have expressed their critical views of the name due to how it was sold by the press as a British "improvement" over American hip hop.

From: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/just-dont-call-it-trip-hop-reconciling-the-bristol-sound-style-with-the-trip-hop-genre/B4944FEFB7C30977DA7CF0CB3AC07465

#GenreOfTheWeek is #BristolSound a.k.a. #TripHop

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