Stev0 wrote:
I don't even really have a name for the genre this would fall into.
So I had a look into the vid of the song you're targeting, and it wasn't hard to imagine a guitar version. I think it would still qualify as rap/hiphop (sorry, I still have yet to grasp the distinction between the two), because I've always understood the genre to be entirely about the rhythmically arranged spoken word, not by what accompanies it. So, solo guitar? Why not? I remember years ago hearing a rap/hiphop piece that went far outside the box (such as I knew it), surprising me with outrageously lush and highly sophisticated choral backing - it was as if as if one were in a riot of seductive, otherworldly, gigantic flowers; a transcendent beauty informed the background color throughout. It was one of only two times in memory that a rap piece ever favorably commanded my attention, and it forever changed my perception of the genre's possibilities in that it utterly defied the one-trick pony stereotype, yet no one would have denied that what I was hearing was indeed rap/hiphop, which it most certainly was. Accordingly, I don't see why a super-minimalist approach with a guitar, acoustic or electric, shouldn't be included within its spectrum. It'd give the stuffy old guard a good shaking-up.