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
• Breakbeat¹
• Britcore
• Boom bap
• Chap hop⁶
• Chopped and screwed
• Chopper
• Christian hip hop
• Contemporary R&B
• Conscious hip hop
• Country-rap
• Crunk
• Crunkcore⁴
• Cloud rap
• Drill
• Emotional Rap
• Electro hop¹
• Experimental hip hop
• Freestyle rap
• G-funk
• Gangsta rap
• Ghetto house¹
• Ghettotech¹
• Glitch hop¹
• Grime¹
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hip hop soul³
• Hip house¹
• 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-rap¹
• Porno rap
• Ragga hip hop⁵
• Rap opera
• Rap rave
• Rap rock
  • Rapcore⁴
  • Rap metal
• Snap music
• Modern Club Hip Hop
• Stronda music
• Trap
• Trip hop^{1 4}
• Turntablism
• Underground hip hop
• Urban Pasifika⁵

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