Historical time periods

Roots of hip hop Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

* Old school hip hop * New school hip hop * Golden age hip hop

Subgenres

Alternative hip hop Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. AllMusic defines it as comprising " hip hop groups that refuse to confor ...

** Hipster hop * Boom bap *

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* British hip hop ** Road rap * Chopped and screwed * Chopper * Cloud rap * Comedy hip hop * Crunk ** Crunkcore * East Coast hip hop * Freestyle rap * G-funk * Hardcore hip hop **

Dirty rap Dirty rap (also known as porno rap, porn rap, sex rap, booty rap, or pornocore) is a subgenre of hip hop music that contains lyrical content revolving mainly around sexually explicit subjects. The lyrics are often overtly explicit and graphic ...

Gangsta rap Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, emerged in the mid- to late 1980s as a controversial hip-hop subgenre whose lyrics assert the culture and values typical of American street gangs and street hustlers. Many gangsta rappe ...

*** 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 Political hip hop is a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning hip hop into a call for political and/or social action and a form of social and/or political activism. Inspired by 1970s political artists su ...

* Progressive rap * Religious hip hop **

Christian hip hop Christian hip hop (originally gospel rap, also known as Christian rap, gospel hip hop or holy hip hop) is a subgenre of contemporary Christian music and hip hop music. It emerged from urban contemporary music and Christian media in the United S ...

Jewish hip hop Jewish hip hop is a genre of hip hop music with thematic, stylistic, or cultural ties to Judaism and its musical traditions. Characteristics Jewish hip hop artists have come from a wide variety of countries and cultures. Elements of reggae, kl ...

* Snap music * Southern hip hop * Trap music ** Drill music ***

Brooklyn drill Brooklyn drill is a regional subgenre of drill music, centered in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, that began as derivative of the drill music scene in Chicago and later became derivative of UK drill with its 808 percussion and sliding notes by ...

*** UK drill ** Latin trap ** Phonk ** Plugg **

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* Turntablism * Underground hip hop * West Coast hip hop

Fusion genres

* Country rap * Electro * Emo rap * Hip hop soul * Hip house * Industrial hip hop * Jazz rap *

New jack swing New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary sound of R&B. Spearheaded by producers Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle, new jack swing was mos ...

* Pop rap *

Punk rap Punk rap is hip hop music influenced by the rebellious ethos, and sometimes musical characteristics, of punk rock. The genre has been described as being influenced by styles such as trap music, punk rock, heavy metal and lo-fi music. One o ...

* Ragga hip hop *

Rap opera A rap opera or hip hopera is a musical work in hip hop style with operatic form. The terms have been used to describe both dramatic works and concept albums, and ''hip hopera'' has also been used for works drawing more heavily on contemporary R&B ...

Rap rock Rap rock is a fusion genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rock's most popular subgenres include rap metal and rapcore, which include heavy metal and hardcore punk-oriented influences, resp ...

** Rap metal *** Trap metal ** Rapcore * Trip hop

Derived genres

Electronic *

Breakbeat Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK ...

Baltimore club Baltimore club, also called Bmore club, Bmore house or simply Bmore, is a fusion of breakbeat and house genres. It is often referred to as a blend of hip hop and chopped, staccato house music. It was created in Baltimore, Maryland, United States ...

** Florida breaks * Ghetto house ** Ghettotech *

Glitch hop Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the 1990s. It is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitch-based audio media and other sonic artifacts. The glitching sounds featured in glitch tracks usually come from audio recording de ...

* Grime * Illbient * Latin freestyle * Wonky Rock *

Nu metal Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, sometimes called aggro-metal) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial, and grunge. Nu met ...

World * Funk carioca * Reggaeton **

Alternative reggaeton Alternative reggaeton is a subgenre of reggaeton that emerged from the reggaeton movement as a reaction to its repetitive and monotone dembow rhythm, and the predominant stereotypical gangsta content that became predictable. The result was a comp ...

United States regional scenes

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

Eastern

* East Coast hip hop ** New Jersey hip hop ** New York City *** Boom bap - from New York City *** Hardcore hip hop - from New York City *** Mafioso rap - from New York City ** Philadelphia hip hop ***

- from Philadelphia ***

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- from Philadelphia ** Washington, D.C. **

- from

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, Maryland

Midwest

** Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois ** Chopper - from

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, Cleveland, Chicago **

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- from the South Side of Chicago ** Detroit hip hop *** Ghettotech **

Minneapolis hip hop Twin Cities hip hop, also referred to as Minneapolis hip hop, is sub-genre of rap music that originates from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Minnesota. History Hip hop culture in the Twin Cities can be traced ...

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** Horrorcore

Southern

* Southern hip hop (Dirty south) ** Atlanta hip hop ***

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Trap A trap is a mechanical device used to capture or restrain an animal for purposes such as hunting, pest control, or ecological research. Trap or TRAP may also refer to: Art and entertainment Films and television * ''Trap'' (2015 film), Fil ...

Houston hip hop Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memph ...

*** Chopped and screwed ** Louisiana ***

- from New Orleans, Louisiana *** Jigga music - from

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, Louisiana ** Tennessee *** Crunk - from Memphis, Tennessee *** Memphis rap - from Memphis, Tennessee *** Slab music ** Miami bass - from Miami, Florida

Western

* West Coast hip hop ** California *** Chicano rap - from

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*** Electro hop - from Los Angeles *** G-funk - from Pomona, California *** Mobb music and hyphy - from the San Francisco Bay Area **** Jerkin' - from Los Angeles ***

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- from Los Angeles *** West Coast trap - from Long Beach, California *

Northwest hip hop Northwest hip hop is hip hop or rap music that originates from the Pacific Northwest of North America, encompassing major cities such as Portland (Oregon), Seattle (Washington), and other towns. Northwest hip hop music mixes elements from various ...

- from Oregon or Washington

Hawaii

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- from

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By descent

Asian American hip hop The influence and impact of hip hop was originally shaped from African American and Latino communities in the South Bronx. In the last several decades, the movement has become a worldwide phenomenon which transcends different cultural boundarie ...

* Latino hip hop * Native American hip hop

World scenes

Africa

* African hip hop **

Algerian hip hop Algerian hip hop music, as a genre, includes the hip hop music of both native Algerians and Algerians abroad. Algerians living abroad have contributed much to this genre, especially in France, where they are also considered part of the French hip ...

** Angolan hip hop **

Beninese hip hop Hip hop music is a genre developed in the 1970s by African Americans in New York City. It began to spread around the world in the 1980s, and became a major part of Beninese music after a 1992 concert by Senegalese-French rapper MC Solaar. At th ...

** Botswana hip hop **

Egyptian hip hop Egyptian hip hop is a form of hip hop music in Egypt that draws inspiration from both regional and global events. History Hip-Hop music reached Egypt when Andrew A. El-Sayid (OsamaBinRappin), a rapper from West Covina, California took Dr. Dr ...

** 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 Port Harcourt, a city of Rivers State located to the south of Nigeria, has a thriving music scene encompassing both native African and foreign-influenced genres. It plays host to numerous radio stations, prominent recording studios, such as the Str ...

Nigerien hip hop Rap Nigerien is a hip hop music style that first appeared in Niamey, Niger, at the end of 1998. Rap Nigerien Rap Nigerien is a mélange of different languages spoken in Niger. Sampled music is often mellow, and is mixed with the traditional mus ...

Senegalese hip hop Senegalese hip hop is a form of hip hop that originated in Senegal in the early 1980s. When hip hop first hit the scene in Africa, it went from merely being a fad, to a more social and political movement. Amongst the most influential leaders of ...

South African hip hop Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread African American influence. In 1985, hip hop reached Senegal, a French-speaking country in West Africa. Some of the first Senegalese rappers were M.C. Lida, M.C. So ...

Tanzanian hip hop Tanzanian Hip-hop, which is sometimes referred to Bongo Flava by many outside of Tanzania's hip hop community, encompasses a large variety of different sounds, but it is particularly known for heavy synth riffs and an incorporation of Tanzania ...

** Togolese hip hop ** Zambian hip hop ** Zimbabwean hip hop

Asia

Asian hip hop Asian may refer to: * Items from or related to the continent of Asia: ** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia ** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia ** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...

Azerbaijani hip hop Azerbaijani hip hop ( az, Azərbaycan hip-hopu) is the musical genre which became popular in Azerbaijan in mid-1990s. It's a mix of native meykhana genre of Azerbaijani music with Western hip hop. History The first Azerbaijani hip-hop song "Dü ...

Bangladeshi hip hop Bangladeshi hip hop is a genre of music and culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music developed in Bangladesh. It is heavily influenced by American hip hop, and started in the early 1990s. In recent years, artists have used lyrical ...

** Burmese hip hop ** Chinese hip hop ** Hong Kong hip hop **

Indian hip hop Indian hip hop is a genre of popular music developed in India. Desi hip hop is a term for music and culture which combines the influences of hip hop and the Indian subcontinent; the term desi referring to the South Asian diaspora. The term has als ...

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Desi hip hop Desi hip hop is a term for music and culture which combines the influences of hip hop and the Indian subcontinent; the term ''desi'' referring to the South Asian diaspora. The term has also come to be used as an alternative for rap music and even ...

** Indonesian hip hop **

Japanese hip hop Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan. It is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records in the early 1980s. Japanese hip hop tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, ...

** Korean hip hop **

Malaysian hip hop The Malaysian hip hop is a hip hop music performed in Malaysia. Many of Malaysian hip hop artistes performed songs mostly in English, but also rhymed in their native Malay language. History Malaysian hip hop music started in the late 1980s an ...

** Nepalese hip hop **

Pakistani hip hop Pakistani hip hop is a music genre in Pakistan influenced heavily from merging American hip hop style beats with Pakistani poetry. The genre was initially dominated in English and Punjabi, but in recent years has expanded to Urdu, Sindhi ...

** Pinoy hip hop (Philippine hip hop) ** Singapore hip hop **

Sri Lankan hip hop Sri Lankan Hip Hop is a part of the Asian hip hop culture. This multilingual genre features Sinhala, Tamil and English. History The first hip hop artists in Sri Lanka to gain popular recognition were Brown Boogie Nation (a G-funk-style gro ...

** Taiwanese hip hop **

Thai hip hop Thai hip hop is hip hop music made in Thailand. Thai hip hop is distinguished from American hip hop by not only sound and language, but also by the culture from which the music is made. History The origin of Thai hip hop can be traced in Thailand ...

** Cambodian hip hop

Europe

* European hip hop **

Albanian hip hop Albanian hip hop refers to hip hop from artists from Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and surrounding areas where the Albanian language Albanian ( endonym: or ) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of lang ...

Austrian hip hop Austrian hip hop is not a genre of hip hop music, but covers all hip hop music from Austria. The majority of Austrian hip hop acts do Underground hip hop, as the big radio stations in Austria have no airtime for native hip hop. The only radio st ...

** Belgian hip hop ** Bosnian and Herzegovinian hip hop ** British hip hop *** Celtic hip hop ***

Leeds hip hop Leeds hip hop or New Yorkshire hip hop is the style of hip hop found in the epicentre of the New Yorkshire hip-hop movement that originated in West Yorkshire, England during the 2000s. Leeds hip hop has been noted as a revival of the purist for ...

*** Scottish hip hop ** Bulgarian hip hop ** Croatian hip hop ** Czech hip hop **

Dutch hip hop ::''This article is written from a predominantly Netherlands viewpoint – neglecting much of the Belgian (Flanders) scene, let alone Dutch- or mixed-language rap/hip hop in the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, nor Suriname!'' ...

Finnish hip hop Finnish hip hop or rap ( fi, suomiräp, räp) or (''suomirap, rap'') is a variant of hip hop music from Finland. The rapping (räppääminen) is mainly done in Finnish. Many rappers use Helsinki slang words; general slang and Finnish dialects a ...

** French hip hop ** German hip hop **

Greek hip hop Greek hip hop ( el, Ελληνικό χιπ χοπ, ), is the chief genre of rap music in Greece. History The earliest indications of the localized genre date back to 1987 the Maxi-single Deejays's with the group FF.C, though native languag ...

** Hip hop tuga (Portuguese hip hop) ** Hungarian hip hop ** Icelandic hip hop **

Irish hip hop Irish hip hop is the response to the hip hop cultural movement that originated in New York City in the 1970s which, at that time, was most popular in the borough of The Bronx. In the 1980s, breakdancing was the first elements of hip hop culture t ...

Italian hip hop Italian hip hop started in the 1980s. One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Bologna's Isola Posse All Star, then and still today produced by Sandro Orru, who had written the soundtrack to the animate ...

** Macedonian hip hop ** Montenegrin hip hop ** Norwegian hip hop ** Polish hip hop **

Romanian hip hop Romanian hip hop first emerged in 1982, along with the break-dancing movement which became very popular in the 1980s. However, Romanian hip hop was developed in the early 1990s, when American rappers hit the European charts. Most notable Romanian ...

Romany hip hop Romani hip hop is a musical genre from Eastern Europe, formed through a fusion of hip hop with Romani melodies and lyrics. Artists include Kmetoband and Gipsy.cz. Outside of Europe, the Turkish Romani hip hop group Tahribad-ı İsyan was founded ...

** Russian hip hop **

Serbian hip hop Serbian hip hop refers to all genres of hip hop music in the Serbian language. The term is also sometimes used to refer to any hip hop music made by Serbs, including instrumental hip hop, as well as rap songs by members of the Serbian diaspora, ...

** Slovak hip hop ** Slovenian hip hop ** Spanish hip hop ** Swedish hip hop **

Swiss hip hop The Swiss hip hop culture began in the early 1980s. Beginnings Crews The most known, active dancers and crews were: * Fantastic Rockers from Zürich: Power, Fast5, Prince Crime, Chase, Sky * Battle Rockers (formerly known as "Back Street Cre ...

** Ukrainian hip hop

Middle East

Middle Eastern hip hop Middle Eastern hip hop is hip hop music and culture originating in the Middle East. It is performed in many languages such as English, local Arabic dialects, Hebrew, Persian, and French. It is highly influenced by American hip hop. Arab hip h ...

Arabic hip hop Arabic hip-hop is a segment of hip hop music performed in the Arabic-speaking world. Due to variety of dialects and local genres which exist in the localities, Arabic hip-hop music may appear very diverse depending on the country of the song. L ...

** Iranian hip hop (Persian hip hop) **

Israeli hip hop Israeli hip hop refers to hip hop and rap music in Israel. History Although Native Hebrew hip hop gained popularity only during the 1990s, stemming from global influences, traces of it could be found during the mid-1980s. Yair Nitzani, then a ...

** Lebanese hip hop **

Palestinian hip hop Palestinian hip hop reportedly started in 1998 with Tamer Nafar's group DAM. These Palestinian youth forged the new Palestinian musical subgenre, which blends Arabic melodies and hip hop beats. Lyrics are often sung in Arabic, Hebrew, English, ...

** Saudi Arabian hip hop ** Tunisian hip hop ** Turkish hip hop **

Yemeni hip hop Yemeni hip hop is a Yemeni music style and cultural movement related to rap and hip hop culture. It has influences from American hip hop and also from traditional music from the region. It is usually considered to have emerged from mid-2000s and r ...

North America

* North American hip hop ** Canadian hip hop **

Cuban hip hop Hip hop music arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami. During the 1980s hip hop culture in Cuba was mainly centered on breakdancing. But by the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the onset of the Special Period, you ...

Dominican hip hop The music of the Dominican Republic is primarily influenced by West African, European, and native Taino influences. The Dominican Republic is mainly known for its merengue and bachata music, both of which are the most popular forms of music i ...

** Haitian hip hop ** Mexican hip hop **

Salvadoran hip hop Salvadoran rap or Guanaco hip hop is a type of rap music that comes from El Salvador. It is a style of music that emerged from groups such as Pescozada and Mecate in the late 1990s. Salvadoran hip hop arose about 30 years ago following a large mi ...

Oceania

* Oceanian hip hop ** Australian hip hop ** New Zealand hip hop

South America

* Latin hip hop *

South American hip hop South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

Brazilian hip hop Brazilian hip hop is a national music genre in Brazil. From its earliest days in the African-Brazilian communities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the genre has grown into a countrywide phenomena. Rappers, DJs, break dancers and graffiti artists a ...

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Brasília hip hop Hip hop has been present in the "brasiliense" social and musical scene since the late 1980s. It is arguably the second biggest hip hop scene in Brazil. The first generation of rappers included GOG and DJ Jamaika. The second generation initiated wit ...

** Colombian hip hop

Ethnic fusion genres

African * Bongo Flava - from Tanzania * Boomba music - from Kenya * Genge - from Kenya *

Hip hop galsen Following an historical process of appropriation of American popular music by Senegal,For e.g. Jazz as well as Latin American music such as salsa or pachanga were popular in Senegalese cities from the 1940s and until recently. hip hop emerged in t ...

- from Senegal * Hipco - from

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* Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana *

Igbo rap Igbo may refer to: * Igbo people, an ethnic group of Nigeria * Igbo language, their language * anything related to Igboland, a cultural region in Nigeria See also * Ibo (disambiguation) * Igbo mythology * Igbo music * Igbo art * * Igbo-Ukwu, a ...

- from

Southeast Nigeria Igboland (Standard ), also known as Southeastern Nigeria (but extends into South-Southern Nigeria), is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people. It is a cultural and common linguistic region in southern Nigeria. Geographically, it is divided b ...

* Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion *

Motswako Motswako is a Southern African subgenre of hip hop popular in South Africa. It consists of a mix of rap lyrics in both the local language (Setswana) and English layered on a steady beat. Other languages used include Sesotho, Zulu and Afrikaans ...

- from Botswana and South Africa * Zenji flava - from Tanzania European * Afroswing - from London * Gyp-hop - from Romania *

Low bap Low bap is a subgenre of the Greek hip hop music scene that emerged in the mid-1990s as the sound of the prominent Greek hip hop group Active Member. It is characterized by slower tempo and rapping than usual, often combined with lyrics with soc ...

- from Greece *

- by Romani people of Europe *

Songo-salsa Songo-salsa is a style of music that blends Spanish rapping and hip hop beats with salsa music and songo. Well-known exponents include Bamboleo and Charanga Habanera La Charanga Habanera is a timba ensemble from Havana directed by David Calz ...

- from Spain North American * Merenhouse - by Dominican residents of New York City *

- from Hawaii *

Nuyorican rap Nuyorican rap is a fusion genre of hip hop, Latin hip hop, East Coast hip hop and reggaeton that embodies aspects of East Coast Stateside Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) culture and is typically performed by American or Puerto Rican rappers and musician ...

- by

Puerto Ricans Puerto Ricans ( es, Puertorriqueños; or boricuas) are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants, and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants. Overview The culture held in common by most Puerto Ricans is referred t ...

of New York City South American * Cumbia rap - from

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

Stronda Stronda is a subgenre of Brazilian hip hop music and a cross-genre that has elements of hip hop, funk, pop, surf music and rock that started in 2004 specifically in Rio de Janeiro with the group Prexeca Bangers Making music counting your day-to ...

- from Rio de Janeiro * Vigilante rap - from Brazil Oceanian *

Urban Pasifika Urban Pasifika (also known as Urban Pacific and Urban Pacifika) is a New Zealand subgenre of hip hop, that developed primarily among Pasifika New Zealanders in South Auckland. Drawn from alternative hip hop and R&B influences, it was quickly ble ...

- from New Zealand

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