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
- Alternative hip hop
- Avant-garde hip hop
- Breakbeat
- Boom bap
- Cat Rap
- Chap hop
- Chopped and screwed
- Chopper
- Christian hip hop
- Comedy hip hop
- Contemporary R&B
- Conscious hip hop
- Country-rap
- Crunk
- Crunkcore
- Cloud rap
- Drill
- Electro hop
- Emo hip hop
- Experimental hip hop
- Freestyle rap
- Future bass hop
- G-funk
- Gangsta rap
- Persian rap
- Ghetto house
- Ghettotech
- Glitch Hop
- Hardcore hip hop
- Hip hop soul
- Hip house
- Horrorcore
- Hyphy
- Industrial hip hop
- Instrumental hip hop
- Jazz rap
- Jersey club
- Latin trap
- Lo-fi hip hop
- Low Bap
- Miami Bass
- Neurohop
- New jack swing
- Political hip hop
- Pop-rap
- Porno rap
- Ragga hip hop
- Rap opera
- Rap rock
- * Rap metal
- Snap music
- Mumble rap
- Stronda music
- Trap
- Trip hop
- *Illbient
- Tread rap
- Turntablism
- Underground hip hop
- Urban Pabbsifika
United States regional scenes
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 -
- 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
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
- * 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 & 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
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
- Reggae Español/Spanish Reggae - from Panama
- Reggaeton - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
- Songo-salsa
- Sotho hop from Lesotho
- Trip hop - from Bristol, England, United Kingdom
- Urban Pasifika - from New Zealand
- trap sha’abi - from Egypt