List of alternative rappers

This is a list of alternative hip hop artists and their most influential recordings. Note that this list contains several artists listed alone and under the name of their former group, such as Pharaohe Monch and his crew, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

See also: list of rappers, hip hop, rapping

• Arrested Development (3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of...
• Basehead (Play With Toys[?])
• Black Eyed Peas (Behind the Front)
• Black Sheep[?] (A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing[?])
• Blackalicious (Blazing Arrow[?])
• Brand Nubian (One for All[?])
• The Brand New Heavies (The Brand New Heavies[?])
• The Broun Fellinis[?] (Aphrokubist Improvisations, Vol. 9[?])
• Buckshot Lefonque[?] (Buckshot Lefonque[?])
• Common (Like Water for Chocolate[?])
• Company Flow (Funcrusher Plus[?])
• De La Soul (3 Feet High and Rising)
• Dead Prez (Let's Get Free)
• Def Jef (Just a Poet With a Soul)
• Digable Planets (Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)[?]
• Dilated Peoples (The Platform[?])
• Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury[?])
• Dream Warriors (And Now, the Legacy Begins[?])
• Freestyle Fellowship[?] (Inner City Griots[?])
• Gang Starr (Daily Operation[?])
• Grand Puba[?] (Reel to Reel[?])
• Guru (Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1)
• Hi-Tek (Hi-Teknology[?])
• Imani Coppola[?] (Chupacabra[?])
• Intelligent Hoodlum[?] (Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum[?])
• Jeru the Damaja[?] (The Sun Rises in the East[?])
• Jungle Brothers (Straight Out the Jungle[?])
• Jurassic 5 (Quality Control[?])
• Justice System[?] (Rooftop Soundcheck[?])
• Lyrics Born[?]
• Main Source[?] (Breaking Atoms[?])
• Monie Love[?] (Down to Earth[?])
• Mos Def (Black on Both Sides)
• Organized Confusion[?] (Organized Confusion[?])
• Pharoahe Monch[?] (Internal Affairs[?])
• Paris (The Devil Made Me Do It[?])
• The Pharcyde (Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde[?])
• Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth[?] (Mecca and the Soul Brother[?])
• Poor Righteous Teachers (Holy Intellect[?])
• Q-Tip[?] (Amplified[?])
• Queen Latifah (All Hail the Queen)
• The Roots (Things Fall Apart[?])
• Sister Souljah[?] (360 Degrees of Power[?])
• Spearhead[?] (Home[?])
• Talib Kweli (Reflection Eternal)
• A Tribe Called Quest (The Low End Theory)
• US3[?] (Hand on the Torch[?])
• X-Clan (To the East, Blackwards[?])