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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.
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- Alternative hip hop
- Chicano Rap - originally from East Los Angeles
- Christian hip hop
- Conscious 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
- Gangsta rap
- 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
- Dirty rap
- Islamic hip hop
- Low Bap - originally from Greece
- New school hip hop
- Old school hip hop
These are genres based in part on hip hop. They may be performed anywhere, not only in their respective places of origin.
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
- 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)
- 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
| World hip hop |
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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 |
Some American hip hop scenes are listed below.
- Chicano rap
- East Coast hip hop
- Midwest hip hop
- Native American hip hop
- Southern rap
- West Coast hip hop
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