List of genres of hip hop
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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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Subgenres
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-hop soul - soul and hip hop
- 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
- New jack swing - 1980s R&B and hip hop
- Rap metal
- Rapcore (or rap rock)
- Reggaeton - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
- Timba - from Cuba
- Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol
Regional scenes
These are not genres, but regional hip hop music scenes.
- African hip hop
- American hip hop
- Australian hip hop
- Belgian hip hop
- British 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
- 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)
Other divisions of hip hop music
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