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• Acid rap

  Acid rap is a subgenre of hip hop music, fusing rock-based beats and lyrics involving subjects such as death, drug use, evil, paranoia and sex. The term was first coined by Detroit rapper Esham, who defined the genre as analogous to "'modern day blues [or] heavy metal'", Esham has been cited as one...

• Mafioso rap

  Mafioso Rap, (called Crime Rap, Mafiosa Rap and Mafiosi Rap) is a hip hop sub-genre which first started in the late 1980s and later flourished in the mid-1990s. It is the pseudo-Mafia extension of East Coast hardcore rap. In contrast to "Conscious and West Coast rappers" who tended to depict...

• Gangsta rap

  Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that evolved from hardcore hip hop and purports to reflect urban crime and the violent lifestyles of inner-city youths. Lyrics in gangsta rap have varied from accurate reflections to fictionalized accounts. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word...

• Alternative hip hop

  Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a sub-genre of hip hop music that evoles around varieties of rap and hip hop genres. Allmusic defines it as follows: Originating in the late-80s, in midst of the Golden age of hip hop, alternative hip hop was headed primarily by East Coast...

• Pop rap

  Pop rap (or hip-pop) is hip hop with a pop music influence. The style became popular in the early 1990s, as hip hop music found commercial success. Pop rappers were more radio-friendly than artists in other hip hop genres. It was not uncommon for the songs to have raunchy subject matter, but on...

• Rapcore

  Rapcore (sometimes referred to as punk rap) is a subgenre of rap rock fusing vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with punk rock (sometimes hardcore punk). Rapcore originated from rap rock, a genre fusing vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with rock. Beastie Boys, formerly a hardcore...

• Jazz rap

  Jazz rap is a sub-genre of hip hop which incorporates jazz influences, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentricity, and general positivism. Allmusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the...

• Underground hip hop

  Underground hip hop is an umbrella term for hip hop music outside the general commercial canon. It is typically associated with independent artists, signed to independent labels or no label at all. Underground hip hop is often characterized by socially conscious, positive, or anti-commercial lyrics...

• Hardcore hip hop

  Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a form of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s. Pioneered by such artists as Run-D.M.C., Schoolly D, Spoonie Gee, Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy and Kool G Rap, it is generally characterized by anger,...

• Latin rap

  Latin hip hop or Latin rap is a term that covers hip hop music recorded by artists of Latino origin. The mean machine and, La Familia was the first Spanish rap group 1980. Don Juan, Roski, Lourock, and El Indio. It was more in a disco form. Then Roski create Spanish hiphop in 1981. Rapping strickly...