List of genres of hip hop - Definition and Overview

Subgenres

• Alternative rap
  • Abstract hip hop
• Battle rap
• Crunk
• Freestyle rap
• Hardcore hip hop
  • Gangsta rap
• Horrorcore
• Nerdcore hip hop
• New school hip hop
• Old school hip hop
• Turntablism

Fusion genres

These are combinations of hip hop music or rapping with other genres. They may be performed anywhere, not only in their respective places of origin.

• Electro
• Freestyle music
• Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
• Ghettotech - from Detroit, Michigan
• Go Go - from Washington D.C.
• Hip house - from New York
• Hip life
• Jazz rap
• Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
• Merenrap - from the Dominican Republic
• Miami bass - from Miami, Florida
• Nu soul - soul and hip hop
• Rap metal
• Rapcore (or rap rock)
  • Nu metal
• Reggaeton - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
• Timba - from Cuba
• Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol

Regional scenes

• African hip hop
  • Senegalese hip hop
  • South African hip hop
  • Tanzanian hip hop
• American hip hop
  • Chicano rap
  • East Coast hip hop
  • Native American hip hop
  • Southern rap
    • Dirty South
  • West Coast hip hop
    • G-funk
• Australian hip hop
• Belgian hip hop
• British hip hop
  • English hip hop
  • Welsh hip hop
• Canadian hip hop
• Chinese hip hop
• Danish hip hop
• Dutch hip hop
• Filipino hip hop (Pinoy rap)
• Finnish hip hop
• French hip hop
• German hip hop
• Greek hip hop
• Greenlandic hip hop
• Icelandic hip hop
• Irish hip hop
• Israeli hip hop
• Italian hip hop
• Japanese hip hop (nip hop)
• Korean hip hop
• Latin rap
  • Brazilian hip hop
  • Cuban hip hop
  • Mexican hip hop
• Norwegian hip hop
• Polish hip hop
• Portuguese hip hop
• Russian hip hop
• Slovenian hip hop
• Spanish hip hop
• Swedish hip hop
• Swiss hip hop
• Taiwanese hip hop
• Turkish hip hop (Oriental hip hop)

Unknown

• Psycho rap