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Alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop is a tradition in United States hip hop, running from the late 1980s to the present, of artists whose music stood outside dominant commercial styles.
Bounce (music genre)
Bounce is a dance rap style that emerged in New Orleans in the early 1990s, built on call-and-response chants and the Triggerman beat, later popularized nationally by Big Freedia.
Drill (music genre)
Drill is a hip hop subgenre that emerged on Chicago's South Side around 2012, defined by dark trap beats and graphic lyrics about street life and gangs.
Gospel rap
Gospel rap, also called Christian rap or holy hip hop, is a hip hop subgenre with Christ-centered lyrics that emerged in the mid-1980s and reached the Billboard 200 through Lecrae's Anomaly in 2014.
Jersey club rap
Jersey club rap is rap music over Jersey club beats, triplet kicks, and bed-squeak samples, popularized nationally by Lil Uzi Vert's 2022 hit "Just Wanna Rock".
South African hip hop
South African hip hop, also known as SA hip hop, is South Africa's rap scene, shaped under apartheid and commercially driven by fusing rap with kwaito and amapiano.
Trap metal
Trap metal is a fusion sub-scene of hip hop, emerging in the mid-2010s, that combines trap production with the vocals and instrumentation of heavy metal, with Scarlxrd and Ghostemane as its best-known exponents.
Turkish hip hop
Turkish hip hop is the rap scene of Turkey and its diaspora, born in Germany in the late 1980s and dominant in Turkish charts since 2017.
West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional hip hop scene centered on Los Angeles, dating to the early 1980s and known for gangsta rap and G-funk.