List of hip hop genres

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