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- Gangsta Rap. 132 votes. Popular artists: Tupac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A., Ice-T, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Sean Combs. Rank the best gangsta rap artists here!
- Alternative Hip Hop. 99 votes. Popular artists: De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, OutKast, The Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, Arrested Development, Danny Brown, Kid Cudi, K.Flay, MF Doom.
- Hardcore Hip Hop. 104 votes. Popular artists: Eminem, Wu-Tang Clan, DMX, Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ghostface Killah, Kool G Rap, Run-D.M.C., Onyx, Rakim. Rank the best hardcore hip hop artists here!
- Experimental Hip Hop. 84 votes. Popular artists: Tyler, the Creator, Odd Future, Death Grips, El-P, clipping., Aesop Rock, Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt, Brockhampton, A Tribe Called Quest.
Aug 11, 2021 · Since 2017, R&B/hip-hop has been the dominant music genre on the United States Billboard charts, becoming bigger than pop and rock and coming to define modern popular music.
The trap and mumble rap subgenres have become the most popular form of hip hop during the mid-late 2010s and early 2020s. In 2017, rock music was usurped by hip hop as the most popular genre in the United States. In recent years, hip hop's influence has transcended musical boundaries, impacting fashion, language, and cultural trends worldwide.
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This is a list of musical genres of subgenres, micro, and umbrella terms of Hip hop.
- Old School
- Boom-Bap
- Jazz Rap
- Trap
- Mumble Rap
- Rap Rock
- Country Trap
- Gangsta Rap
- Crunk
- Drill
Let’s kick it off at the most obvious place to start—old school hip-hop. Old school for me encompasses most hip-hop from the late 70s and mid to late 80s. And yes—there are notable subgenres within the old school canon, but I’ll cover and discuss those a little later. But in general, old school hip-hop is characterized by early uses of samples, tur...
Boom-bap gets its name from its distinctive drum production style. The mid-90s old-school hip-hop genre made heavy use of strong kicks and snare, sometimes putting those drum sounds ahead of the hi-hats and other parts of a beat arrangement. Boom-bap is truly a samples-oriented style of beat making. Many producers from this time period would sample...
Jazz rap has close ties to the boom-bap era of hip-hop. That’s because so many of the samples boom-bap producers used came from jazz and soul vinyls. Jazz rap in the early 2000s pushed the limits of sampling techniques and combined complex rhyme schemes with off-kilter drum production. To me, the two figureheads of jazz-rap are the late J Dilla and...
If there’s one genre of hip-hop you hear about most these days it’s trap. Right now mainstream hip-hop—and really mainstream music in general from country to pop—is all about that trap beat. Trap has many, many subgenres that we’ll unpack later, but in general, the genre originated in Atlanta and was pioneered by producers like Metro Boomin and Zay...
Mumble rap is somewhat of a derogatory term for some artists. But, in many ways, it’s a fair description of a certain rap style that’s popular right now. The genre is an offshoot from trap that plays with triplet-heavy rhyming used by many trap artists. Mumble rappers will often rhyme very quickly in triplets while using unintelligible and sometime...
Rap Rock combines the high voltage energy of rock music with the attitude and style of hip-hop. The genre is rooted in late 90s acts like the Beastie Boys and Run DMC but grew to mainstream prominence with 2000s artists like Linkin Park. Rap Rock often uses influences from punk and hardcore but leaves space for rap verses by incorporating hip-hop f...
Country trap is a relatively new genre with obvious connections to Atlanta trap and good ol’ Nashville pop-country. The mega-hit that defined the genre is definitely Lil Nas X with Old Town Road, but outings from Nelly with Florida Georgia Line laid the groundwork for the genre. Today’s modern country sound really does take a lot of cues from trap ...
Gangsta rap is a subgenre of late 90s and early 2000s boom-bap. To me, the sub-genre is particularly defined by its lyrical content that graphically describes the grittier side of life on the streets as a gang member. But also, gangsta rap production often made heavy use of strings and orchestral samples from classical and jazz music. The combinati...
Crunk is an absolutely incredible subgenre of rap that popped up in Florida and parts of the southwestern states over the 2000s. It’s a really interesting genre of rap to me because it really sounds unique and different from most other kinds of rap. You know when you’re listening to a crunk rap song. Crunk is definitely a precursor to the modern tr...
Drill is another trap-inspired rap style that made it into the mainstream towards the late 2010s. The Chicago-based producers who created it like Young Chop and Chief Keef took inspiration from Atlanta-style trap but leaned heavily into speedy trap hi-hat production, brooding synth pads and crunchy horn samples. It’s similar to gangsta rap’s reacti...
Jan 3, 2018 · For the first time ever, R&B/hip-hop has surpassed rock to become the biggest music genre in the U.S. in terms of total consumption, according to Nielsen Music's 2017 year-end report.
Oct 18, 2022 · In 2018, Nielsen Soundscan’s year-end music industry report confirmed that R&B/hip-hop was the most popular genre in America. Nine of the 10 most consumed songs in the United States were...
