List of hip-hop genres

Hip hop music can be subdivided into subgenres, fusions with other genres and regional hip hop scenes.

Historical Time Periods

• Roots of hip hop
• Old school hip hop
• Golden age hip hop
• New school hip hop

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

• Midwest hip hop
  • Cleveland hip hop
  • Rez Music Hip Hop
  • Columbus hip hop
  • St. Louis hip hop
  • Chicago hip hop
    • Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
  • Detroit hip hop
    • Ghettotech
  • Twin Cities hip hop

Eastern

• East Coast hip hop
  • Brick City club - from Newark, New Jersey
  • New York hip hop
    • Queens hip hop
    • Manhattan hip hop
    • Staten Island hip hop
    • Bronx hip hop
  • Philadelphia hip hop
  • Pittsburgh hip hop
  • Baltimore Club- from Baltimore, Maryland

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
    • Chopped and screwed
  • 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
• Native American hip hop

World Hip hop

Main article: 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