Latin Hip Hop
Latin hip hop is rap music made by Latino artists in the United States, Latin America and Spain, in Spanish, English or a mix of both.
It keeps hip hop's core of rapped verses over beats and often adds Latin percussion, samples of salsa or cumbia, and local slang. It began with Latino MCs and DJs in New York and Los Angeles in the 1980s, then grew local scenes in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, Spain and elsewhere. Unlike reggaeton and Latin trap, it puts the rapping first and is less tied to one beat pattern.
Artists it is known for: Cypress Hill, Big Pun, Vico C, Control Machete.
- Family
- Latin
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, 1980s
- Also called
- Latin rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have latin hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Latin Hip Hop artists
Daddy Yankee
Tainy
Arcángel
Don Omar
Wisin & Yandel
Aventura
Bryant Myers
Nicky Jam
Canserbero
Ñengo FlowThe latin hip hop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.