List of rap and 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^{[Note 1]}
• Boom bap
• Chap hop^{[Note 2]}
• Chopped and screwed
• Chopper
• Christian hip hop
• Comedy hip hop
• Contemporary R&B
• Conscious hip hop
• Country rap
• Crunk
• Crunkcore^{[Note 3]}
• Cloud rap
• Drill
• Electro hop
• Emo hip hop
• Experimental hip hop
• Freestyle rap
• Future bass hop
• G-funk
• Gangsta rap
• Persian rap
• Ghetto house^{[Note 1]}
• Ghettotech
• Glitch Hop^{[Note 1]}
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hip hop soul^{[Note 4]}
• Hip house^{[Note 1]}
• Horrorcore
• Hyphy
• Industrial hip hop
• Instrumental hip hop
• Jazz rap
• Jersey club
• Latin trap
• Lo-fi hip hop
• Low bap
• Miami bass
• New jack swing
• Political hip hop
• Pop rap^{[Note 1]}
• Porno rap
• Ragga hip hop^{[Note 5]}
• Rap opera
• Rap rock
  • Rap metal
• Snap music
• Mumble rap
• Stronda music
• Trap
• Trip hop^{[Note 1][Note 3]}
  • Illbient
• Tread rap^{[Note 6]}
• Turntablism
• Underground hip hop
• Urban Pasifika^{[Note 5]}

United States regional scenes

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

Eastern

• East Coast hip hop
• 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
• Gangsta rap – Originally from Philadelphia
• Philadelphia party music/club
• Tread rap – ^{[Note 6]}
• 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
    • Drill music – originated from the South Side of Chicago
  • Detroit hip hop
    • Ghettotech
  • St. Louis hip hop
  • Twin Cities hip hop
  • Horrorcore
  • Chopper (rap)

Southern

• Southern hip hop
• Dirty South – originally from Southern United States
  • Atlanta hip hop
    • Snap music
    • Trap music
  • Bounce music – originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Jigga music – originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • Crunk – originally from Memphis, Tennessee
  • Houston Hip Hop
    • List of Houston rappers
    • Chopped and screwed
    • Slab music
    • Slab music
  • Miami bass – from Miami, Florida

Western

• West Coast hip hop
  • California
    • Chicano rap – originally from East Los Angeles
    • G-funk – originally from Los Angeles, California
    • Mobb music and hyphy – originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
    • Jerkin’ – originally from Los Angeles
    • Ratchet – originally from Los Angeles
    • West Coast trap – originally from Long Beach, California
    • Electro hop – originally from Los Angeles
    • Central Valley Hip Hop – Originated in California‘s Central Valley from the cities of Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, Hanford, Merced, Modesto, Visalia, and more.
      • Syco Muzik – Originally from Bakersfield, California
      • 8 0 5 Star Music – Originally from Bakersfield/Kern County
      • Bass Rap – Originated in Bakersfield California
  • Northwest hip hop – originally from Oregon or Washington
• Native American hip hop

Hawaii

• Na mele paleoleo originated by Sudden Rush

World scenes

Africa

• African hip hop
  • Algerian hip hop
  • Gambian hip hop
  • Ghanaian hip hop
  • Ivorian hip hop
  • Kenyan hip hop
  • Moroccan hip hop
  • Nigerian hip hop
  • Nigerien hip hop
  • Senegalese hip hop
  • South African hip hop
  • Tanzanian hip hop
  • Togolese hip hop
  • Tunisian hip hop
  • Zambian hip hop
  • Zimbabwean hip hop

Asia

Asian hip hop Bangladeshi hip hop Burmese hip hop Chinese hip hop Filipino 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 Thai hip hop Taiwanese hip hop Vietnamese hip hop

Europe

European hip hop Albanian hip hop Austrian hip hop Belgian hip hop Bosnian hip hop British hip hop Bulgarian hip hop Croatian 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 Scottish 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
  • Egyptian hip hop
  • Iranian hip hop
  • Israeli hip hop
  • Kurdish hip hop
  • Lebanese hip hop
  • Palestinian hip hop
  • Saudi hip hop
  • Turkish hip hop
  • Yemeni hip hop

North America

• North American hip hop
  • Canadian hip hop
  • Cuban hip hop
  • Dominican hip hop
  • Haitian hip hop
  • Mexican hip hop
  • Salvadoran hip hop

Oceania

• Oceanian hip hop
  • Australian hip hop
  • New Zealand hip hop

South America

South American hip hop Brazilian hip hop Colombian hip hop Uruguayan hip hop

World genres influenced by hip hop

• Afroswing – From London
• Bongo Flava – Originally from Tanzania
• Cumbia rap – from Colombia
• Funk carioca – from Brazil
• 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
• Spanish Reggae – from Panama
• Reggaeton – from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
• Songo-salsa
• Trip hop (or Bristol sound) – from Bristol, England, United Kingdom
• Urban Pasifika – from New Zealand