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
• Chopped and screwed
• Christian hip hop
• Conscious hip hop
• Country-rap
• Crunk
• Crunkcore
• Electro hop*
• Electro music*
• Folk Hop
• Freestyle music
• Freestyle rap
• G-Funk
• Gangsta rap
• Ghetto house*
• Ghettotech*
• Grime*
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hip hop soul***
• Hip house*
• Hip pop*

• Horrorcore
• Hyphy
• Industrial hip hop
• Instrumental hip hop
• Jazz rap
• Lyrical hip hop
• Mafioso rap
• Nerdcore hip hop
• New jack swing
• Political hip hop
• Pop-rap**
• Ragga
• Reggaeton
• Rap opera
• Rap rock
  • Rapcore
  • Rap metal
• Snap music
• Turntablism
• Underground hip hop

* Genres of hip-hop that are connected with rave culture
** Mix of pop, hip-hop, soul, rhythm and blues and gospel
*** subgenre of contemporary R&B and mix of hip-hop and soul

United States regional scenes

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

Eastern

• East Coast hip hop
  • Baltimore club - from Baltimore, Maryland
  • Brick City club - from Newark, New Jersey
  • Hardcore hip hop
  • Mafioso rap
  • New Jersey hip hop

Conscious Rap

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

Southern

• Southern hip hop
• Dirty South - originally from Southern U.S.
  • Atlanta hip hop
    • Snap music
  • Bounce music - originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Crunk - originally from Memphis, Tennessee
  • Houston hip hop
    • Chopped and screwed
  • Miami bass

Western

• West Coast hip hop
  • 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

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

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
  • 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

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
  • Russian hip hop
  • Serbian hip hop
  • Slovenian hip hop
  • Spanish hip hop
  • Swedish hip hop
  • Swiss hip hop
  • Turkish hip hop
  • Ukrainian 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
• Hiplife - hip hop and highlife from Ghana
• 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