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Hip-hop genres
- Jerk (music genre)New York City became the birthplace of Jerk in 2021. Rapper Xaviersobased formed a group called 1c34 that same year. This collective reimagined an older…
- HexDIn 2011, Untranced released a mixtape titled Deleted Seniors. This project featured EDM music mixed with heavy bitcrushing.
- Punk rapThe year 2013 marked a turning point when the internet began connecting disparate sounds from Atlanta and Miami. Journalist Thomas Hobbs described this…
- Rage (music genre)The word rage first appeared in hip-hop through Kid Cudi's Mr. Rager alter ego during the 2010s. Travis Scott later adopted this term and made it a core part…
- Internet rapIn 1997, Canibus dropped the track DJ Clue Freestyle and declared he would battle opponents on the net as well as in the flesh.
- Memphis rapMemphis rap emerged in the mid-1980s within the city of Memphis, Tennessee. This regional subgenre began as a response to the dominant hip hop scenes in New…
- DigicoreThe word digicore first appeared in the 2000s as a shorthand for digital hardcore, a distinct electronic music style from that era.
- Jewish hip-hopIn the 1980s, a group called Hip Hop Hoodíos fused Jewish and Latino identities to create music that found support in Latino media.
- Hardcore hip-hopRun-DMC released their self-titled debut album in 1983, marking the first recorded instance of hardcore hip-hop. Music experts credit this group as the…
- Cloud rapIn 2010, music blogger Walker Chambliss wrote a blog post that introduced the phrase cloud rap to describe the work of Squadda B.
- CrunkcoreThe mid-2000s marked a collision of sounds that would define a new musical identity. Members of the scene subculture began blending crunk, post-hardcore, and…
- Jerkin'In the late 2000s, a street dance culture emerged from urban California that would eventually be called Jerkin'. Oktane of Audio Push explained the roots of…
- Trip hopIn the late 1980s, a group of DJs and MCs gathered on council estates in Bristol to play music for public spaces. They called their collective the Wild Bunch.
- Gangsta rapPhiladelphia rapper Schoolly D released a self-titled debut album in 1985 that contained the song "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" This track is widely regarded…
- Hip houseThe year 1986 marked the pressing of a vinyl record titled Rok da House by a British group called Beatmasters. This track featured a rap duo named Cookie…
- Miami bassIn 1986, DJ Kurtis Mantronik released a single called Bass Machine that changed the trajectory of South Florida music. The track featured rap vocals by T La…
- Rap metalIn 1987, the heavy metal band Anthrax released their extended play I'm the Man. This record fused hip hop with heavy metal for the first time on a major…
- Freestyle rapIn the early 1980s, hip hop artists used the word freestyle to describe a written rhyme that had no specific subject matter.
- Trap musicIn 1991, the word trap first appeared in hip-hop lyrics to describe a place where drugs were sold. By 1999, producers in Atlanta began crafting a sound that…
- CrunkThe word crunk first appeared in print within a 1972 Dr. Seuss book titled Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!. The author used the phrase Crunk-Car…