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
• Slab music
• 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 Digicore 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 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) Florida Miami bass - from Miami Georgia Trap - from Atlanta Snap - from Atlanta Plugg - from Atlanta Louisiana Bounce - from New Orleans Jigga music - from Baton Rouge Tennessee Crunk - from Memphis Memphis rap - from Memphis Phonk - from Memphis Texas Country rap Chopped and screwed form Houston Slab music

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 Romani hip-hop Chicano rap

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 Zeckenrap 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 Samoan 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