List of hip-hop genres

List of genres of subgenres, micro, and umbrella terms of rap music.

Historical time periods

• Roots of hip hop
• New school hip hop
• Golden age hip hop

Subgenres

• Alternative hip hop
  • Experimental hip hop
  • Hipster hop
• Boom bap
• Bounce
• British hip hop
  • Road rap
• Chopped and screwed
• Chopper
• Christian hip hop
• Cloud rap
• Comedy hip hop
• Crunk
  • Crunkcore
• East Coast hip hop
• Freestyle rap
• Funk carioca
  • Funk ostentação
• Frat rap
• G-funk
• Hardcore hip hop
  • Dirty rap
  • Gangsta rap
    • Mafioso rap
  • Horrorcore
  • Memphis rap
• Hyphy
  • Jerkin'
• Instrumental hip hop
• Latin hip hop
  • Chicano rap
• Lofi hip hop
• Miami bass
• Mumble rap
• Nerdcore
  • Chap hop
• Political hip hop
  • Conscious hip hop
• Progressive rap
• Religious hip hop
  • Christian hip hop
  • Jewish hip hop
• Snap music
• Southern hip hop
• Trap music
  • Drill music
    • Brooklyn drill
    • UK drill
  • Latin trap
  • Phonk
  • Plugg
    • Pluggnb
  • Rage
  • Tread rap
• Turntablism
• Underground hip hop
• West Coast hip hop

Fusion genres Country rap Electro Emo rap Hip hop soul Neo soul Hip house Industrial hip hop Jazz rap New jack swing Pop rap Punk rap Ragga hip hop Rap opera Rap rock Rap metal Trap metal Rapcore Trip hop

Pluggnb Derived genres Electronic Breakbeat Baltimore club Florida breaks Footwork Ghetto house Ghettotech Glitch hop Grime Illbient Latin freestyle Wonky Rock Nu metal World Funk carioca Reggaeton Alternative reggaeton Mahraganat

United States regional scenes

American hip hop regional scenes and hip hop related genres that came from them.

Northeastern East Coast hip hop New Jersey hip hop New York City hip hop Boom bap - from New York City Hardcore hip hop - from New York City Mafioso rap - from New York City Philadelphia hip hop Tread rap - from Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Baltimore club - from Baltimore, Maryland Midwestern Midwest hip-hop Chopper - from Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago Drill - from the South Side of Chicago Detroit hip hop Minneapolis hip hop Omaha hip hop Horrorcore Scam rap

Southern Southern hip hop (Dirty south) Atlanta hip hop Snap Trap Houston hip hop Chopped and screwed Louisiana Bounce - from New Orleans, Louisiana Jigga music - from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Tennessee Crunk - from Memphis, Tennessee Memphis rap - from Memphis, Tennessee Slab music Miami bass - from Miami, Florida

Western West Coast hip hop California Gangsta rap - from Los Angeles Chicano rap - from East Los Angeles Electro hop - from Los Angeles G-funk - from Pomona, California Mobb music and hyphy - from the San Francisco Bay Area Jerkin' - from Los Angeles Ratchet - from Los Angeles West Coast trap - from Long Beach, California Northwest hip hop - from Oregon and Washington Hawaii Na mele paleoleo - from Hilo, Hawaii By descent Asian American hip hop Latino hip hop Native American hip hop

World scenes

Africa African hip hop Algerian hip hop Angolan hip hop Beninese hip hop Botswana hip hop Egyptian hip hop Gambian hip hop Gh hiphop (Ghanaian hip hop) Ivorian hip hop Kenyan hip hop Mauritian hip hop Moroccan hip hop Namibian hip hop Nigerian hip hop Port Harcourt hip hop Nigerien hip hop Senegalese hip hop South African hip hop Tanzanian hip hop Togolese hip hop Zambian hip hop Zimbabwean hip hop Asia Asian hip hop Mongolian hip hop Azerbaijani hip hop Bangladeshi hip hop Burmese hip hop Chinese hip hop Hong Kong hip hop Indian hip hop Desi hip hop Indonesian hip hop Japanese hip hop Korean hip hop Malaysian hip hop Nepalese hip hop Pakistani hip hop Pinoy hip hop (Philippine hip hop) Singapore hip hop Sri Lankan hip hop Taiwanese hip hop Thai hip hop

Europe European hip hop Albanian hip hop Austrian hip hop Belgian hip hop Bosnian and Herzegovinian hip hop British hip hop Celtic hip hop Scottish hip hop Bulgarian hip hop Croatian hip hop Czech hip hop Dutch hip hop Finnish hip hop French hip hop German hip hop Greek hip hop Hip hop tuga (Portuguese hip hop) Hungarian hip hop Icelandic hip hop Irish hip hop Italian hip hop Macedonian hip hop Montenegrin hip hop Norwegian hip hop Polish hip hop Romanian hip hop Romany hip hop Russian hip hop Serbian hip hop Slovak hip hop Slovenian hip hop Spanish hip hop Swedish hip hop Swiss hip hop Ukrainian hip hop

Middle East Middle Eastern hip hop Arabic hip hop Iranian hip hop (Persian hip hop) Israeli hip hop Lebanese hip hop Palestinian hip hop Saudi Arabian hip hop Tunisian hip hop Turkish hip hop Yemeni hip hop North America Canadian hip hop Toronto sound (hip hop) Cuban hip hop Dominican hip hop Haitian hip hop Mexican hip hop Salvadoran hip hop Oceania Australian hip hop New Zealand hip hop South America Latin hip hop South American hip hop Brazilian hip hop Brasília hip hop Colombian hip hop Chilean hip hop

Ethnic fusion genres

African

• Bongo Flava - from Tanzania
• Boomba music - from Kenya
• Genge - from Kenya
• Hip hop galsen - from Senegal
• Hipco - from Liberia
• Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana
• Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria
• Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
• Motswako - from Botswana and South Africa
• Zenji flava - from Tanzania

European

• Afroswing - from London
• Gyp-hop - from Romania
• Low bap - from Greece
• Romany hip hop - by Romani people of Europe
• Songo-salsa - from Spain

North American

• Merenhouse - by Dominican residents of New York City
• Na mele paleoleo - from Hawaii
• Nuyorican rap - by Puerto Ricans of New York City

South American

• Cumbia rap - from Colombia
• Stronda - from Rio de Janeiro
• Vigilante rap - from Brazil

Oceanian

• Urban Pasifika - from New Zealand

See also

• Hip hop culture
• List of hip hop festivals
• List of hip hop musicians
• List of electronic music genres
• List of hip hop record labels
• Rapping
• List of subcultures

References