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

Subgenres

• Alternative hip hop
  • Abstract hip hop
  • Nerdcore hip hop
• Hardcore hip hop
  • Gangsta rap
    • Dirty South
      • Crunk
      • Memphis rap
      • Screwed Music
    • G-funk
    • Horrorcore
• Holy Hip Hop
• Instrumental hip hop
  • Turntablism
• New school hip hop
• Old school hip hop

Jump to: navigation, search Alternative hip hop is a style of hip hop music distinguished by beats, samples, and lyrics that differ from the general template of popular commercial hip hop. ... Abstract hip hop is a genre that differs from other hip hop music largely in the content of the lyrics. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nerdcore hip hop, or geeksta rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music that is performed by nerds, and is characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. ... Hardcore hip hop is a form of hip hop music that has confrontational, often violent lyrics, and generally sparse, gritty urban beats. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop music which involves a lyrical focus on the lifestyles of inner-city thugs, criminals and gangsters. ... Jump to: navigation, search Dirty South is a style of rap music that popped up in the latter half of the 1990s. ... // Crunk is CRAZY and DRUNK Atlanta-based Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz often refer to themselves as the Kings of Crunk. ... Memphis rap is a specific type of music that originated in Memphis, Tennessee. ... Screwed and Chopped [1] is a style of editing used in hip hop music which originated in Houston, Texas, pioneered by the late, eponymous DJ Screw and exemplified in the music of Swishahouse artists such as Mike Jones, Paul Wall, and Slim Thug, along with Chamillionaire and others. ... G-funk, an abbreviation of Gangsta-funk, is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Horrorcore is a sub-genre of hip hop music that evolved from pioneers such as Insane Poetry, Ganxsta NIP, Esham (The Unholy), Geto Boyz, The Flatlinerz,KGP, Brotha Lynch Hung and The Gravediggaz. ... Holy Hip Hop is a new genre of hip hop, typically for Christians. ... Instrumental hip hop is hip hop music without vocals. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Old School Turntablism is a subgenre of hip hop. ... New school hip hop is a rarely-heard term referring to hip hop created later in the forms development, contrasted with old school hip hop. ... Old school hip hop is the very first hip hop to come out of the block parties of New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s. ...

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. Jump to: navigation, search Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rapping is one of the elements of hip hop as well as the distinguishing feature of most hip hop music. ...

• Electro
• Freestyle music
• Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
• Ghettotech - from Detroit, Michigan
• Go Go - from Washington D.C.
• 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
• 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
• 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

Jump to: navigation, search Electro (also known as electro[ ]funk) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records that were closer to disco). ... Freestyle or Latin freestyle, also called Latin hip-hop in its early years, is a form of electronic music that is heavily influenced by Hispanic and African-American culture. ... Ghetto house is a type of house music from Chicago which started being recognised in its own right from around 1994 onwards. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles, and the largest inland city in the country. ... Ghettotech is a form of electronic dance music based in Detroit that combines Chicagos ghetto house, electro, hip-hop, techno, and Miami bass. ... Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815... Alternate meanings: See Go go (disambiguation) Go Go is a form of funk music which arose in the 1980s in Washington D.C.. In the late 1970s, funk had gone electronic, influenced by then popular disco acts, and began using drum machines, synthesizers and other instruments that many purists derided. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Hip-hop soul is, despite its name, a subgenre of contemporary R&B. The term generally describes a style of music that blends R&B singing and hip hop production. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the early 1990s, two styles of hip hop were popular. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop music which involves a lyrical focus on the lifestyles of inner-city thugs, criminals and gangsters. ... Hip house, also known as house rap, is a mixture of house music and hip-hop which arose during the 1980s in New York. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² or 54,556 square miles (27th)  - Land... Hip life is a fusion of two styles of music, Ghanaian highlife and American hip hop. ... Jump to: navigation, search Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Kwaito is a South African music style that originated in Johannesburg in the mid 1990s. ... Merenrap, or meren-rap, is a style of hip hop music which was formed from the fusion of Dominican merengue music with rapping. ... Miami bass (also known as booty bass or bass music) is a form of music known for deep, throbbing beats, hyperkinetic rhythms and, often, sexually explicit lyrics. ... Jump to: navigation, search City nickname: The Magic City, The American Riviera, The Sixth Borough Location Location of Miami in the State of Florida Government County Miami-Dade Mayor Manuel “Manny” Diaz (R) Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 139. ... Jump to: navigation, search Neo soul (also known as nu soul) is a musical genre that fuses contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul, and hip hop. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search New jack swing is a hybrid style of rhythm and blues (R&B) combined with hip hop, popular from the late 1980s to early/mid-1990s. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Pop rap music is a combination of rap-style lyrics sung melodically, and hip-hop beats with pop hooks. ... Rap metal is a musical genre that takes influence from both rap music and heavy metal music. ... Rapcore today is a fusion of hardcore punk and heavy metal music aesthetics with hip hop music. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Nu metal (or aggro metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music. ... Jump to: navigation, search Reggaeton is a form of dance music which has become popular with Latin American youth during the late 1990s and has spread to North American and European audiences during the first few years of the 21st century. ... ... Timba is the Cuban variant of salsa music, and is often understood to be a sub-category of salsa. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by United Kingdom dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of Englands hip hop and house scenes. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bristol is an English city and county and one of the three administrative centres of South West England (the others being Plymouth and Exeter). ...

Regional scenes

These are not genres, but regional hip hop music 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
  • West Coast hip hop
• 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
  • Dominican hip hop
  • Mexican hip hop
  • Puerto Rican 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)

Jump to: navigation, search Hip hop has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence. ... Daara J live in Berlin The West African nation of Senegal has one of the most active hip hop scenes on the continent, and has produced well-known international stars like MC Solaar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hip hop music is a musical genre invented by African Americans in New York City in the 1970s. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement encompassing four forms of expression: graffiti art, breakdancing, DJing and rapping. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chicano rap is not a style of hip hop music, but rather hip hop music by all Chicanos. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the early 1990s, two styles of hip hop were popular. ... Jump to: navigation, search Native American hip hop is popular among Native Americans in the United States and the First Nations of Canada. ... Jump to: navigation, search Southern rap (or Dirty South hip-hop) is a type of hip hop music that emerged in the late-1980s as a popular force, based out of Miami first, then extending to Atlanta, New Orleans, and St. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search Australian hip hop began in the early 1980s, primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from America. ... Belgian hip hop has a few rappers stemming from Africa. ... Jump to: navigation, search British hip hop is a musical genre and culture that covers a variety of styles of rap music made in the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Canadian hip hop developed much more slowly than the rock music scene. ... Chinese hip hop is a relatively new phenomenon in China and first made it to Taiwan where artists such as MC HotDog were first rapping but then made it to Hong Kong with the success of LMF. In the mainland a hip hop scene had just been formed with artists... Hip hop is a cultural movement originally from the United States. ... Like France, the Netherlands has an African hip hop scene. ... The Philippines has the oldest hip hop scene in South East Asia, largely due to the historical connections with the Philippines and United States, the home of hip hop. ... Finnish hip hop is an increasingly robust part of the Finnish music scene. ... This article is about hip hop music from the country of France, and does not cover the hip hop scenes in other French speaking countries like Senegalese, Belgian and Canadian hip hop. ... German hip hop is the German manifestation of hip hop music. ... Greek <a style=text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double; href=http://www. ... Greenlandic hip hop began in 1985 with the formation of the Inuit rap crew Nuuk Posse, though hip hop first came to Greenland a year earlier. ... The first major hip hop crew from Iceland was Quarashi, who were inspired by the rock hybrid music of The Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement which originated among African Americans in New York City in the 1970s. ... Hip hop music is a musical genre invented by African Americans in the United States. ... Italian hip hop started in the early 1990s. ... Japanese hip hop (nip hop or j-hip hop) is said to have begun in 1983 when Charlie Ahearns Wild Style was shown in Tokyo. ... Korean Hip Hop began in the early 90s, mainly attributed to the efforts of Tiger JK and the Korean American Hip Hop group Drunken Tiger. ... Jump to: navigation, search Latin rap is not a homogeneous musical style but rather a term that covers all hip-hop music recorded by Latinos, as in Chicano Rap, Hip Hop Latino, and Hip Hop en espanol. ... Hip hop arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami. ... Dominican hip hop has its own style of music by mixing its native music and rapping to it like in their genre Merenrap or Merenhouse where they just take a blend of there native dance music called Merengue and rap to it. ... Mexican rap refers to a hip hop movement started in Mexico in the early 1990s with dance-pop act Calo. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement which originated among African Americans in the New York City. ... The Polish hip hop scene began in 1990, when American pop-rappers like MC Hammer (Please Hammer Dont Hurt Em) and Vanilla Ice (To the Extreme) were popular. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Russian hip hop is hip hop music produced in Russia and/or in the Russian language External links [ http://www. ... Jump to: navigation, search Slovenias first notable rapper was the skiier Jure Košir (also known as Kruši); his crew was called Košir Rap Team. ... Spanish hip hop music began in the late 1980s. ... Timbuktu, artist from Lund/Malmö in southern Sweden. ... Swiss hip hop is not a genre of hip hop music, but a term covering all hip hop music from Switzerland. ... Artists Dog G L.A. Boyz MC HotDog Machi TTM Categories: Music stubs | Taiwanese music | World hip hop ... Turkish hip hop started in Germany with groups such as Islamic Force and Cartel. ...

Other divisions of hip hop music

• Battle rap
• Freestyle rap

Battle raps are raps written about the idea of freestyle battles. ... Freestyle rap is, strictly speaking, rapping that is done in the moment at pure free flow, with no previously composed lyrics, and reflecting a direct mapping of the mental state and performing situation of the artist. ...

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