List of hip hop genres

Hip hop music can be subdivided into various subgenres, fusions with other genres, and regional hip hop scenes.

Historical time periods

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

Derived styles

Alternative hip hop Avant-garde hip hop Breakbeat^1 Britcore Boom bap Chap hop^6 Chopped and screwed Chopper Christian hip hop Contemporary R&B Conscious hip hop Country-rap Crunk Crunkcore^4 Cloud rap Drill Emotional Rap Electro hop^1 Experimental hip hop Freestyle rap G-funk Gangsta rap Ghetto house^1 Ghettotech^1 Glitch hop^1 Grime^1 Hardcore hip hop Hip hop soul^3 Hip house^1 Horrorcore

Hyphy Industrial hip hop Instrumental hip hop Jazz rap Jersey club Low Bap Lyrical hip hop Mafioso rap Mobb Nerdcore hip hop Noise rap New jack swing Political hip hop Pop-rap^1 Porno rap Ragga hip hop^5 Rap opera Rap rave Rap rock Rapcore^4 Rap metal Snap music Modern Club Hip Hop Stronda music Trap Trip hop^1 4 Turntablism Underground hip hop Urban Pasifika^5

¹Genres of hip hop that are connected with rave culture
²Mix of pop, hip hop, soul, rhythm and blues, and gospel
³subgenre of contemporary R&B and mix of hip hop and soul
⁴Mix of Electronicore and hip hop
⁵Mix of hip hop and traditional Caribbean or Polynesian genres
⁶Combination of hip hop with stylistic elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures and stereotypical English obsessions such as cricket, tea and the weather.

United States regional scenes

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

Eastern East Coast hip hop New York City Boom bap - Originally from New York City Mafioso rap - Originally from New York City Hardcore hip hop - Originally from New York City Jersey club from Newark, New Jersey Philadelphia Gangsta rap - Originally from Philadelphia Philadelphia party music/club Baltimore club Originally from Baltimore, Maryland Go-go Originally from Washington, D.C. List of hip hop musicians from New York City New Jersey hip hop Philadelphia hip hop Hip hop in Washington, D.C. Virginia hip hop Midwest Midwest hip hop Chicago hip hop Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois Detroit hip hop Ghettotech St. Louis hip hop Twin Cities hip hop Horrorcore Chopper (rap)

Southern Southern hip hop Dirty South - originally from Southern U.S. Atlanta hip hop Snap music Trap music Bounce music - originally from New Orleans, Louisiana Crunk - originally from Memphis, Tennessee Houston hip hop Chopped and screwed Miami bass - from Miami, Florida Western West Coast hip hop Bakersfield Hip Hop - Originally from Bakersfield also referred to as:Central California Hip hop, San Joaquin Valley Hip Hop, Central Valley Hip hop, or Kern County Hip Hop. Central California Hip Hop - Originally from the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Coast from the cities of Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz. Central Valley Hip Hop - Originally from Sacramento County, Butte County, Colusa County, Glenn County, El Dorado County, Fresno County, Kings County, Madera County, Merced County, Placer County, San Joaquin County, Shasta County, Stanislaus County, Sutter County, Tehama County, Tulare County, Yuba County, Yolo County, and Kern County. Chicano rap - originally from East Los Angeles, California Gangsta rap G-funk - originally from Los Angeles, California Mobb music & Hyphy - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area in California Jerkin' - originally from Los Angeles Native American hip hop Northwest hip hop - originally from Oregon or Washington Ratchet - originally from Los Angeles, California Electro Hop - originally from Los Angeles, California

World scenes

Africa African hip hop Algerian hip hop Egyptian hip hop Gambian hip hop Ivorian hip hop Kenyan hip hop Moroccan hip hop Nigerian hip hop Senegalese hip hop South African hip hop Tanzanian hip hop Togolese hip hop Zimbabwean hip hop Zambian hip hop Americas American hip hop Brazilian hip hop Canadian hip hop Cuban hip hop Dominican hip hop Haitian hip hop Mexican hip hop Salvadoran hip hop Asia Asian hip hop Nephop (nepali hiphop) WestSide Nephop (nepali hiphop) Bangladeshi hip hop Burmese hip hop Chinese hip hop Filipino hip hop Hong Kong hip hop Indian hip hop Indonesian hip hop Japanese hip hop Korean hip hop Malaysian hip hop Nepalese hip hop Pakistani hip hop Thai hip hop Kurdish hip hop

Europe European hip hop Albanian hip hop Austrian hip hop Belgian hip hop Bosnian hip hop British hip hop Bulgarian hip hop Czech hip hop Danish hip hop Dutch hip hop Finnish hip hop French hip hop German hip hop Greek hip hop Hungarian hip hop Icelandic hip hop Irish hip hop Italian hip hop Macedonian hip hop Norwegian hip hop Polish hip hop Portuguese hip hop Romanian hip hop Romany hip hop Russian hip hop Serbian hip hop Slovenian hip hop Slovakian hip hop Spanish hip hop Swedish hip hop Swiss hip hop Turkish hip hop Ukrainian hip hop Vatican hip hop

Middle East Middle Eastern hip hop Arabic hip hop Egyptian hip hop Iranian hip hop Israeli hip hop Lebanese hip hop Palestinian hip hop Oceania Oceanian hip hop Australian hip hop New Zealand hip hop

World genres influenced by hip hop

• Bongo Flava - Originally from Tanzania
• Cumbia rap - from Colombia
• Grime - from London, though more connected to rave culture.
• Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana
• Igbo rap - from Southeast Nigeria
• Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
• Low Bap - originally from Greece
• Merenrap - from the Dominican Republic
• Motswako - from Botswana and South Africa
• Reggae Español/Spanish Reggae - from Panama
• Reggaeton - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
• Songo-salsa
• Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol, England
• Urban Pasifika - from New Zealand

See also

• Batik Tribe