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List of hip-hop genres

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6623269 ↗
Source-derived summary

List of genres of subgenres, micro, and umbrella terms of rap music.

Historical time periods

Roots of hip-hop

Old-school hip-hop

New-school hip-hop

Golden age hip-hop

Subgenres

United States regional scenes

American hip-hop regional scenes and hip-hop related genres that came from them.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of hip-hop genres” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.