Melodic Rap
Melodic rap is hip hop in which the rapper half sings the verses, usually with Auto-Tune, so the line between rapping and singing blurs.
Vocals follow a tune instead of a flat spoken rhythm and often sit on trap beats with 808 bass and soft keyboard or guitar loops. The approach grew out of late 2000s records by T-Pain, Kanye West and Drake and became common across rap in the 2010s. The Grammy Awards renamed a category Best Melodic Rap Performance in 2020, and some writers use the name interchangeably with pop rap.
Artists it is known for: Future, Young Thug, Juice WRLD.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 2000s
- Also called
- melodic hip hop, rap-singing
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 24%
About 20,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have melodic rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Melodic Rap artists
Lil Uzi Vert
Juice WRLD
Gunna
Post Malone
Lil Tecca
Tory Lanez
Young Thug
Trippie Redd
Kodak Black
A Boogie Wit da Hoodie
The melodic rap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Pop rap
- Wikipedia: Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance
- Wikipedia: 808s & Heartbreak
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.