List of hip hop genres

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

*Acid rap
*Alternative hip hop
*Bounce music
*Brazilian funk
*Christian hip hop
*Conscious hip hop
*Contemporary R&B**
*Country-rap
*Crunk
*Dirty rap and Pornocore
*Electro*
*Electro-hop*
*Freestyle music
*Freestyle rap
*Game-Hop
*Gangsta rap
*Ghettotech*
*Ghettotronic
*Grime*
*Hardcore hip hop
*Hip hop soul***
*Hip house*
*Horrorcore
*Instrumental hip hop
*Jazz rap
*Mafioso rap
*Merenhouse*
*Neo soul
*Nerdcore hip hop
*New jack swing
*Pop-rap**
*Rap metal
*Rap rock
*Rapcore
*Swing hip-hop (SWAP)
*Snap music
*Turntablism

"*: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 regional scenes and genres that came from them.

Midwest

*Midwest hip hop
**Chicago hip hop
***Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
***Ghettotech
**Twin Cities hip hop

Eastern

*East Coast hip hop
**Brick City club - from Newark, New Jersey
**Baltimore Club- from Baltimore, Maryland
**New Jersey hip hop

outhern

**Atlanta hip hop
**Dirty South
**Houston hip hop
***Chopped and screwed
**Crunk
**Miami bass - from Miami, Florida
**New Orleans hip hop
**Snap music - originally from Atlanta, Georgia

Western

*Gangsta rap
*G-funk - originally from Los Angeles
*Chicano Rap - originally from East Los Angeles
*Hyphy - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
*Mobb Music - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
*Native American hip hop

World Hip hop and Genres influenced by Hip hop

*Naija hip hop - from Nigeria
*Reggaetón - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
*Songo-salsa
*Timba - from Cuba
*Urban Pasifika - from New Zealand
*Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
*Ragga - from Jamaica
*Grime - from London
*Cumbia rap - from Colombia
*Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol, England
*Hip life - hip hop and highlife from Ghana
*Low Bap - originally from Greece
*Merenrap - from the Dominican Republic
*norwegian hip hop from norway
*Tamil hip hop from Malaysia


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