List of hip-hop genres
Appearance
Hip hop music can be subdivided into subgenres, fusions with other genres and regional hip hop scenes.
Historical Time Periods
Derived Styles
- Abstract hip hop
- Acid rap
- Alternative hip hop
- Bounce music
- Brazilian funk
- Christian hip hop
- Conscious hip hop
- Contemporary R&B
- Country-rap
- Dirty rap
- Electro*
- Electro-hop*
- Emo rap
- Freestyle music
- Freestyle rap
- Gangsta rap
- Ghetto rock
- Ghettotech*
- 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
- Pornocore
- Rap Metal
- Rap rock
- Swing hip-hop (SWAP)
- Turntablism
*:Genres of hip-hop that are connected with rave culture
United States Regional Scenes
American regional scenes and genres that came from them.
Midwest
Eastern
Southern
- Southern rap
- Memphis hip hop
- Dallas hip hop
- Portsmouth hip hop
- Athens hip hop
- LaGrange hip hop
- Opa-locka hip hop
- Decatur hip hop
- Port Arthur hip hop
- Albany hip hop
- College Park hip hop
- Mobile hip hop
- Baton Rouge hip hop
- Shreveport hip hop
- Norfolk hip hop
- Batesville hip hop
- Miami hip hop
- Fort Myers hip hop
- Memphis rap
- Atlanta hip hop
- Dirty South
- Houston hip hop
- Crunk
- Miami bass - from Miami, Florida
- New Orleans hip hop
- Snap music - originally from Atlanta, Georgia
Western
- West Coast hip hop
- Los Angeles hip hop
- Compton hip hop
- Long Beach hip hop
- G-funk - originally from Los Angeles
- Chicano Rap - originally from East Los Angeles
- San Francisco hip hop
- Hyphy - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Mobb Music - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Los Angeles hip hop
- Native American hip hop
World Hip hop
- 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