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

[edit] Historical Time Periods

• Roots of hip hop
• Old school hip hop
• New school hip hop
• Golden age hip hop

[edit] Derived Styles

• Acid rap
• Alternative hip hop
• Christian hip hop
• Comedy hip hop
• Conscious hip hop
• Country-rap
• Crunk
• Crunk&B
• Crunkcore
• Electro music*
• Freestyle music
• Freestyle rap
• Funk carioca
• G-Funk
• Gangsta rap
• Ghetto house
• Ghettotech*
• Grime*
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hip hop soul***
• Hip house
• House music*
• Horrorcore
• Hyphy
• Instrumental hip hop
• Jazz rap
• Mafioso rap
• Merenhouse*
• Nerdcore hip hop
• New jack swing
• Pop-rap**
• Political hip hop
• Ragga
• Rap opera
• Rap rock
  • Rapcore
  • Rap metal
• Snap music
• Turntablism

*:Genres of hip-hop that are connected with rave culture
**: Mix of pop, hip-hop, soul, rhythm and blues and gospel
***: subgenre of contemporary R&B and mix of hip-hop and soul

[edit] United States Regional Scenes

American regional scenes and genres that came from them.

[edit] Midwest

• Midwest hip hop
  • Chicago hip hop
    • Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
    • Ghettotech
  • St. Louis hip hop
  • Twin Cities hip hop

[edit] Eastern

• East Coast hip hop
  • Brick City club - from Newark, New Jersey
  • Baltimore Club- from Baltimore, Maryland
  • New Jersey hip hop

[edit] Southern

• • Atlanta hip hop
  • Dirty South
  • Houston hip hop
    • Chopped and screwed
  • Crunk - originally from Memphis, Tennessee
  • Miami bass - from Miami, Florida
  • New Orleans hip hop
  • Snap music - originally from Atlanta, Georgia
  • Dallas-Ft Worth hip hop

[edit] Western

• West Coast hip hop
• Gangsta rap
• G-funk - originally from Los Angeles
• Chicano Rap - originally from East Los Angeles
• Hyphy - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
• Mobb Music - originally from the San Francisco Bay Area
• Native American hip hop

[edit] World Hip hop and Genres influenced by Hip hop

• Reggaeton - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
• Reggae Español/Spanish Reggae - from Panama
• Songo-salsa
• Urban Pasifika - from New Zealand
• Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
• Grime - from London
• Cumbia rap - from Colombia
• Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol, England
• Hip life - hip hop and highlife from Ghana
• Low Bap - originally from Greece
• Merenrap - from the Dominican Republic
• Motswako - from Botswana and South Africa
• Bongo Flava - Originally from Tanzania
• Hiphopolo - Polish disco polo/hip hop fusion
• Nederhop - originally from The Netherlands & Belgium