List of hip hop genres

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

1 Subgenres
2 Descendant genres
- 2.1 Fusion genres
3 Regional scenes
- 3.1 United States
4 See also

[edit] Subgenres

Alternative hip hop
- Abstract hip hop
  - Acid rap
- Nerdcore hip hop
Chicano Rap - originally from East Los Angeles
Christian hip hop
Conscious hip hop
- Political hip hop
Electro
Golden age hip hop
Grime
Hardcore hip hop
- Gangsta rap
  - G-funk - originally from Los Angeles
  - Mafioso rap
  - Rap dogba - originally from Côte d'Ivoire
- Horrorcore
- Hyphy - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Mobb Music - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Pornocore
Dirty South - originally from the United States
- Bounce music
- Chopped and screwed - originally from Houston, Texas
- Crunk - originally from Memphis, Tennessee
- Memphis rap - Originally from Memphis, Tennessee
- Snap music - originally from Atlanta, Georgia
Instrumental hip hop
- Turntablism
Dirty rap
Islamic hip hop
Low Bap - originally from Greece
New school hip hop
Old school hip hop

[edit] Descendant genres

These are genres based in part on hip hop. They may be performed anywhere, not only in their respective places of origin.

Grime - from London
Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol, England

[edit] Fusion genres

These are combinations of hip hop with other genres.

Baltimore Club - from Baltimore, Maryland
Country-rap
Cumbia rap - from Colombia
Electro hop
Emo rap- (Generally more of a label than actual genre)
Freestyle music
Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
Ghettotech - from Detroit, Michigan
Hip Pop R&B - from East Coast
Hip hop soul - R&B and East Coast hip hop or gangsta rap
Hip house - from New York
Hip life - hip hop and highlife from Ghana
Jazz rap
Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
Merenhouse
Merenrap - from the Dominican Republic
Miami bass - from Miami, Florida
- Brazilian funk
Neo soul - R&B, 1970s soul, and hip hop
New jack swing - 1980s R&B and hip hop
Pop-rap
Ragga - from Jamaica
Rapcore (or rap rock or rap metal)
- Nu metal
Reggaetón - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
Songo-salsa
Timba - from Cuba
UKG: UK Garage and Two-step - from the United Kingdom
Urban Pasifika - from New Zealand
Hiphopolo - from Poland

[edit] Regional scenes

World hip hop

African - Albanian - Algerian - American - Angolan - Arabic - Asian - Australian - Azerbaijani - Bahraini - Belgian - Bosnian and Herzegovinan - Botswana - Brazilian - British - Bulgarian - Canadian - Cape Verdean - Chinese - Congolese - Cuban - Czech - Danish - Dominican - Dutch - Egyptian - European - Filipino - Finnish - French - Gambian - German - Ghanaian - Greek - Greenlandic - Guinean - Hong Kong - Hungarian - Icelandic - Indian - Indonesian - Iranian - Irish - Israeli - Italian - Ivoirian - Japanese - Kenyan - Korean - Latin American - Lebanese - Malagasy - Malaysian - Malian - Mexican - Native American - Nepalese - New Zealand - Nigerian - Nigerien - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Rwandan - Salvadoran - Senegalese - Serbian - Slovak - Slovenian - South African - Spanish - Swedish - Swiss - Taiwanese - Tanzanian - Togolese - Turkish - Ugandan - Ukrainian - Zimbabwean

[edit] United States

Some American hip hop scenes are listed below.

[edit] See also

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