For the limited purposes of this article, "lo-fi" means "instrumental hip-hop playlists on YT" more or less. No doubt that plenty of other genres have experimen

For the limited purposes of this article, "lo-fi" means "instrumental hip-hop playlists on YT" more or less. No doubt that plenty of other genres have experimented with the textures of cheap recording gear, whether that's Jandek[1] or King Tubby[2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby