List of hip-hop genres

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
• Digicore
• Drill music
  • Brooklyn drill
  • UK drill
• 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'
• Jerk
• 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
• Slab music
• Snap music
• Southern hip-hop
• Sigilkore
  • Krushclub
• Trap music
  • Latin trap
  • Phonk
  • Plugg
    • Pluggnb
  • 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
• Psychedelic rap
• Punk rap
• Ragga hip-hop
• Rap opera
• Rap rock
  • Rap metal
    • Trap metal
  • Rapcore
• Trip hop

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
  • 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)
  • Florida
    • Miami bass - from Miami
  • Georgia
    • Trap - from Atlanta
    • Snap - from Atlanta
    • Plugg - from Atlanta
  • Louisiana
    • Bounce - from New Orleans
    • Jigga music - from Baton Rouge
  • Tennessee
    • Crunk - from Memphis
    • Memphis rap - from Memphis
    • Phonk - from Memphis
  • Texas
    • Country rap
    • Chopped and screwed form Houston
    • Slab music

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
• Romani hip-hop
• Chicano rap

World scenes

Africa

• African hip-hop
  • Algerian hip-hop
  • Angolan hip-hop
  • Beninese hip-hop
  • Botswana hip-hop
  • Cape Verdean hip-hop
  • Egyptian hip-hop
  • Gambian hip-hop
  • Gh hip-hop (Ghanaian hip-hop)
  • Guinean hip-hop
  • Ivorian hip-hop
  • Kenyan hip-hop
  • Mauritian hip-hop
  • Moroccan hip-hop
  • Mozambican 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
    • Welsh hip-hop
  • Bulgarian hip-hop
  • Croatian hip-hop
  • Czech hip-hop
  • Dutch hip-hop
  • Finnish hip-hop
  • French hip-hop
  • German hip-hop
    • Zeckenrap
  • 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
  • Toronto sound (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
• Samoan 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
• Nuyorican rap - by Puerto Ricans of New York City

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
• Classic hip-hop