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- Identifying Dilla’s connection to lo-fi hip-hop’s sound isn’t difficult to do but his significance to its aesthetic isn’t as obvious. The convergence of anime and hip-hop music defines the look of lo-fi hip-hop but it isn’t the first example of the two being brought together. Almost two decades before, Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and Toonami became cultural tastemakers for combining bumpers and commercials — anime and non-anime alike — with music from then-unknown artists and bands.
That same nostalgia that defines lo-fi hip-hop’s sound also defines its aesthetic.