Avanthop is a style of music with roots in genres such as hip hop, rock, jazz, folk and electronic music. Avanthop is also known as avant-garde hip hop. This subgenre of hip hop emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and is mostly seen as a reaction to mainstream hip hop, which is seen as superficial. The result is a cross-over of several different styles.

==Labels==
Many of the labels that produce avanthop are also involved in other genres of music.

* Anticon
* Big Dada
* Black Canyon Music
* Def Jux
* Fake Four Inc.
* Lex Records
* Mush Records
* Rhymesayers Ent.
* Stanford House Records

==Avanthop artists==

* 13 & God
* Aesop Rock
* Alias
* Antipop Consortium
* Bike For Three
* Blank
* Bleubird
* Buck 65
* Busdriver
* Cage
* Cannibal Ox
* cLOUDDEAD
* Doseone
* Dosh
* Eyedea & Abilities
* Jel
* Josh Martinez
* Odd Nosdam
* Passage
* Pedestrian
* Prefuse 73
* Quixotic
* Sage Francis
* Sixtoo
* Sleep
* Sole (& The Skyrider Band)
* Subtle
* The Weather
* Why?