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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 rapPunk rap arrives with a simple, confrontational mission. As one artist put it: "It's what the game needs now; someone who doesn't give a fuck about the rules…
- 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 first formed in Memphis, Tennessee, between the mid and late 1980s, made by artists working with almost no money and less studio gear.
- DigicoreDigicore is a genre of music that took shape entirely online. Teenagers built it from bedrooms, trading tracks through Discord servers and SoundCloud…
- Jewish hip-hopJewish hip hop describes a genre of hip hop music defined by its ties, whether thematic, stylistic, or cultural, to Judaism and its musical traditions.
- Hardcore hip-hopHardcore hip-hop was born in the East Coast hip-hop scene of the 1980s, and its DNA has always been anger, aggression, and confrontation.
- Cloud rapCloud rap began with a castle in the clouds. In 2009, rapper Lil B sat down with music writer Noz for an interview. He pulled up a CGI image of a castle…
- CrunkcoreCrunkcore arrived in the mid-2000s as one of the stranger collisions in popular music. A microgenre known by at least four names - crunkcore, crunk punk…
- Jerkin'Jerkin' is a street dance culture and hip hop subgenre that rose from urban California in the late 2000s. The music sounded new.
- Trip hopTrip hop is a genre born in the council estates of Bristol, England, where DJs who grew up on Jamaican dub music began slowing everything down.
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap began its life under a different name: reality rap. That original label tells you something honest about what the genre's founders believed they…
- Hip houseHip house was born at a crossroads: somewhere between a Chicago warehouse and a London recording studio, two of the most vital youth music movements of the…
- Miami bassMiami bass carries two names: the polished one is "Miami bass," but the streets always called it booty music. Born from the historically Black neighborhoods…
- Rap metalRap metal arrived not with a manifesto but with a question nobody had asked yet: what happens when you put a DJ and a shredding guitarist in the same room?
- Freestyle rapFreestyle rap divides hip-hop heads into two camps, and the argument goes back further than most people realize. At the center of the debate is a single…
- Trap musicTrap music was born out of the Atlanta streets, and its name comes from a specific and brutal place: the trap house, a building where drug deals happen.
- CrunkCrunk is a subgenre of hip hop that began life in the African American strip clubs of Memphis, Tennessee and ended up placing multiple songs at the top of…