Emo Rap
Emo rap mixes hip hop beats with the sad, confessional lyrics and guitar sounds of emo and pop punk.
Songs set trap drums and 808 bass under moody guitar loops, with half-sung vocals about heartbreak, depression, anxiety and drug use. It grew on SoundCloud in the mid-2010s and reached the charts through Lil Peep, XXXTentacion and Juice WRLD. It is more melodic and inward-looking than standard trap, and closer in mood to 2000s emo bands.
Artists it is known for: Lil Peep, Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, mid-2010s
- Also called
- emo hip hop, sad rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 16%
About 13,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have emo rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Emo Rap artists
Juice WRLD
XXXTENTACION
Lil Peep
$uicideboy$
wifiskeleton
Xavier Wulf
comehelpglo
BONES
6ix9ine
brakenceThe emo rap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.