Hip hop music can be subdivided into subgenres, fusions with other genres and regional hip hop scenes.

Subgenres

• Alternative hip hop
  • Abstract hip hop
  • Nerdcore hip hop
• Instrumental hip hop
  • Turntablism
• New school hip hop
  • Hardcore hip hop
    • Gangsta rap
      • Crunk
      • G-funk
      • Horrorcore
• Old school hip hop

Fusion genres

These are combinations of hip hop music or rapping with other genres. They may be performed anywhere, not only in their respective places of origin.

• Electro
• Freestyle music
• Ghetto house - from Chicago, Illinois
• Ghettotech - from Detroit, Michigan
• Go Go - from Washington D.C.
• Hip-hop soul - soul and hip hop
• Hip house - from New York
• Hip life
• Jazz rap
• Kwaito - South African house/hip hop fusion
• Merenrap - from the Dominican Republic
• Miami bass - from Miami, Florida
• New jack swing - 1980s R&B and hip hop
• Rap metal
• Rapcore (or rap rock)
  • Nu metal
• Neo soul
• Reggaeton - from the Caribbean, mostly Puerto Rico
• Timba - from Cuba
• Trip hop (or Bristol sound) - from Bristol

Regional scenes

These are not genres, but regional hip hop music scenes.

• African hip hop
  • Senegalese hip hop
  • South African hip hop
  • Tanzanian hip hop
• American hip hop
  • Chicano rap
  • East Coast hip hop
  • Native American hip hop
  • Southern rap
    • Dirty South
  • West Coast hip hop
• Australian hip hop
• Belgian hip hop
• British hip hop
  • English hip hop
  • Welsh hip hop
• Canadian hip hop
• Chinese hip hop
• Danish hip hop
• Dutch hip hop
• Filipino hip hop (Pinoy rap)
• Finnish hip hop
• French hip hop
• German hip hop
• Greek hip hop
• Greenlandic hip hop
• Icelandic hip hop
• Irish hip hop
• Israeli hip hop
• Italian hip hop
• Japanese hip hop (nip hop)
• Korean hip hop
• Latin rap
  • Brazilian hip hop
  • Cuban hip hop
  • Mexican hip hop
• Norwegian hip hop
• Polish hip hop
• Portuguese hip hop
• Russian hip hop
• Slovenian hip hop
• Spanish hip hop
• Swedish hip hop
• Swiss hip hop
• Taiwanese hip hop
• Turkish hip hop (Oriental hip hop)

Other divisions of hip hop music

• Battle rap
• Freestyle rap

Unknown

• Psycho rap