List of hip hop genres explained

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

Historical time periods

• Roots of hip hop
• Old school 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
    • Dark Plugg
    • Dream plugg
    • Pluggnb
    • hyperplugg
  • 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
• 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

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