Draft:Outline of hip hop music

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to hip hop.

Hip-hop or hip hop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that often accompanies rapping, a rhythmic delivery of poetic speech. In the early 1990s, a professor of African American studies at Temple University said, "hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own." By the 21st century, the field of rappers had diversified by both race and gender. The music developed as part of the broader hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, breakdancing, and graffiti art. While often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of the culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.

Typical instruments

• Rapping –
• Turntables –
• DJ mixer –
• Drum machine –
• Music sequencer –
• Synthesizer –

Subgenres of hip hop

• Alternative hip hop –
• Christian hip hop –
• Conscious hip hop –
• Experimental hip hop –
• Freestyle rap –
• Gangsta rap –
• Homo hop –
• Hardcore hip hop –
• Horrorcore –
• Instrumental hip hop –
• Mafioso rap –
• Miami bass –
• Nerdcore –
• Political hip hop –
• Baltimore club –
• Bounce –
• Brick city club –
• Chicano rap –
• Native American hip hop –
• Jerkin' –

Hip hop fusions

• Country rap –
• Australian hip hop –
• hip hop soul –
• hip house –
• crunk –
• grebo –
• hyphy –
• jazz rap –
• neo soul –
• merenrap –
• nu metal –
• Nuyorican rap –
• ragga –
• reggaeton –
• rap opera –
• rap rock –
• rap metal –
• cumbia rap –
• hiplife –
• Low Bap –
• ghettotech –
• glitch hop –
• wonky –
• industrial hip hop –
• new jack swing –
• psychedelic hip hop –

Regional styles

• Atlanta hip hop –
• Canadian hip hop –
• Desi hip hop –
• East Coast hip hop –
• West Coast hip hop –
• Southern hip hop –
• Midwest hip hop –
• British hip hop –
• French hip hop –
• Turkish hip hop –
• Kenyan hip hop –
• Japanese hip hop –
• Korean hip hop –
• Romanian hip hop –

History of hip hop

• History of hip hop

Years in hip hop

• 1970s

• 1979

• 1980s
  • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
• 1990s
  • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999
• 2000s