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Hip-hop
Other names	Hip hop rap music rap
Stylistic origins	Disco funk jazz blues scat singing R&B soul dub spoken word talking blues performance poetry
Cultural origins	Early 1970s, the Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Typical instruments	Voice (rapping, singing) turntable mixer drum machine sampler sequencer synthesizer keyboard
Derivative forms	Breakbeat Baltimore club Beatdown hardcore Contemporary R&B Florida breaks footwork funk ostentação ghetto house ghettotech glitch hop grime illbient Latin freestyle wonky nu metal funk carioca reggaeton alternative reggaeton mahraganat
Subgenres
Alternative hip-hop boom bap bounce Brazilian rap geek Brooklyn drill Chicano rap chopper chopped and screwed Christian hip-hop cloud rap comedy hip-hop conscious hip-hop crunk disco rap dirty rap drill East Coast hip-hop experimental hip-hop frat rap freestyle rap funk carioca G-funk gangsta rap hardcore hip-hop hipster hop horrorcore hyphy instrumental hip-hop jerk hexd Jewish hip-hop jerk rap Latin hip-hop Latin trap lofi hip-hop lowend Memphis rap Miami bass mumble rap nerdcore phonk plugg (pluggnb) political hip-hop progressive rap rage road rap scam rap snap sigilkore Southern hip-hop tread trap turntablism UK drill West Coast hip-hop
Fusion genres
Country rap electro chap hop emo rap hip-hop soul neo soul digicore glitchcore hip house crunkcore industrial hip-hop jazz rap new jack swing psychedelic pop rap punk rap (rapcore) ragga hip-hop rap opera rap rock (rap metal) trap metal trip hop
Regional scenes
African hip-hop Asian hip-hop Australian hip-hop European hip-hop Latin hip-hop Middle Eastern hip-hop
Local scenes
Midwestern hip-hop Southern hip-hop East Coast hip-hop West Coast hip-hop
Other topics
Old-school hip-hop New-school hip-hop Golden age hip-hop Underground hip-hop Internet rap SoundCloud rap
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Wikipedia Categories

• Hip-hop
• Radio formats
• Musical improvisation
• African-American music
• Music of New York City
• Hispanic American music
• American styles of music
• African-American cultural history
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