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  Jazz rap

  Jazz rap is a fusion of hip hop and jazz, 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 past with a newly dominant form...
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  Mafioso rap

  Mafioso rap, or "Crime 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 rappers", who tended to depict realistic urban life on the ghetto streets, Mafioso...
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  Gangsta rap

  Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of some inner-city youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid 1980s by rappers such as Schooly D and Ice T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by...
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  Alternative hip hop

  Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a sub-genre of hip hop music that is defined in greatly varying ways. Allmusic defines it as follows: Alternative Rap refers to Hip-Hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore,...
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  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...
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  Funk

  Funk is an American music genre that originated in the late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B; into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the...
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  East Coast hip hop

  East Coast hip hop is a form of hip hop music that originated and developed in New York City, USA during the 1970s and early 1980s. The style emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the United States emerged with different styles. East Coast hip hop has been noted as...

• Chicano rap

  Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop music, latin rap and gangsta rap that embodies aspects of West Coast and Southwest Mexican American (Chicano) culture and is typically performed by American rap singers and musicians of Mexican descent. The first widely recognized Chicano rap artist was Kid...

• Rapcore

  Rapcore is a subgenre of rap rock fusing vocal and sometimes instrumental elements of hip hop with punk rock, often hardcore punk. Rapcore shares traits with rap rock and rap metal, and music often overlaps between the categories. These styles became the basis for nu metal. Rapcore originated from...

• Horrorcore

  Horrorcore is a subgenre of hip hop music based in horror-themed lyrical content and imagery. While the style is underground in popularity, some performers have sold well in the mainstream scene. The stylistic origins of horrorcore can be traced to a number of artists in the early 1990s. The Geto...