The mega-hit that defined the genre is definitely Lil Nas X with Old Town Road, but outings from Nelly with Florida Georgia Line laid the groundwork for the genre. Rap rock artists to check out: Linkin Park, Rage Against the MachineĬountry trap is a relatively new genre with obvious connections to Atlanta trap and good ol’ Nashville pop-country. Rap Rock often uses influences from punk and hardcore but leaves space for rap verses by incorporating hip-hop friendly drum parts inspired by drum and bass and boom-bap. The genre is rooted in late 90s acts like the Beastie Boys and Run DMC but grew to mainstream prominence with 2000s artists like Linkin Park. Rap Rock combines the high voltage energy of rock music with the attitude and style of hip-hop. Mumble rappers to check out: Young Thug, Lil Yachty, 645AR Mumble rappers will often rhyme very quickly in triplets while using unintelligible and sometimes made-up words. The genre is an offshoot from trap that plays with triplet-heavy rhyming used by many trap artists. But, in many ways, it’s a fair description of a certain rap style that’s popular right now. Mumble rap is somewhat of a derogatory term for some artists. Trap artists to check out: Gucci Mane, Future, Megan Thee Stallion Trap is truly a modern take on hip-hip, especially because trap beats are much easier to program with the help of modern DAWs and sampling technology. Its defining features are its extensive use of booming 808 bass, incredibly fast hi-hats and use of triplets both in the beats themselves and the rhymes trap artists spit. Trap has many, many subgenres that we’ll unpack later, but in general, the genre originated in Atlanta and was pioneered by producers like Metro Boomin and Zaytoven. Right now mainstream hip-hop-and really mainstream music in general from country to pop-is all about that trap beat. If there’s one genre of hip-hop you hear about most these days it’s trap. Jazz rap artists to check out: Karriem Riggins, Knxwledge, Anderson. MF DOOM is a master lyricist whose ability to string extremely complex rhymes into incredible storytelling rivals no-one. J Dilla is the producer who’s credited with pioneering the off-kilter, slightly swung drum production style that’s associated with Jazz rap. To me, the two figureheads of jazz-rap are the late J Dilla and MF DOOM. Jazz rap in the early 2000s pushed the limits of sampling techniques and combined complex rhyme schemes with off-kilter drum production. That’s because so many of the samples boom-bap producers used came from jazz and soul vinyls. Jazz rap has close ties to the boom-bap era of hip-hop. It’s a beat making production style that ultimately had a huge impact on how music would be made going forward.īetween the stories from the streets that boom-bap MCs would rhyme about and the unique and hard-hitting sound of boom-bap drums, the genre is still one of the most well-loved and revered styles of rap.īoom-bap artists to check out: Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep Many producers from this time period would sample sections of soul and funk vinyl straight into an SP-1200 and then loop them to create repeating hypnotic, punchy and incredibly powerful beats. The mid-90s old-school hip-hop genre made heavy use of strong kicks and snare, sometimes putting those drum sounds ahead of the hi-hats and other parts of a beat arrangement.īoom-bap is truly a samples-oriented style of beat making. Hip-hop was born in New York, so naturally, that’s where most old school hip-hop artists hail from.īut, in the subgenres of old school hip-hop that we’ll explore later, you’ll see that New York was definitely not the only place where hip-hop was happening in the 80sĪrtists to check out: Sugar Hill Gang, Tupac, Slick Rickīoom-bap gets its name from its distinctive drum production style. The use of triplets wasn’t much of a thing in the early days. You’ll mostly also hear the use of duple meter. Old school for me encompasses most hip-hop from the late 70s and mid to late 80s.Īnd yes-there are notable subgenres within the old school canon, but I’ll cover and discuss those a little later.īut in general, old school hip-hop is characterized by early uses of samples, turntablism and simple rhyme schemes. Let’s kick it off at the most obvious place to start-old school hip-hop. Here’s 22 rap styles that stick out to us. In this article we’ll briefly explore each genre that matters, so you know what’s out there to explore in-depth. Today every hip-hop and rap subgenre sounds completely different, even if they still follow the core tenants of rhyme and beat.įrom the early days of underground New York hip-hop to the twisted sound of UK Drill, the only thing that’s been constant in the genre is change, especially with the evolution of technology. Ever since, rap has exploded into countless subgenres and styles. Just about 40 years ago, hip-hop was born.
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