Queens Hip Hop
Queens hip hop is rap from the New York City borough of Queens, home to Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Nas and A Tribe Called Quest.
Run-DMC, from the Hollis neighborhood, led rap's harder new school in the mid-1980s. The Queensbridge housing project produced Marley Marl's Juice Crew and later Nas and Mobb Deep, whose bleak, detailed street stories defined 1990s New York rap. The borough also gave rise to the jazz-leaning A Tribe Called Quest and, in the 2000s, 50 Cent.
Artists it is known for: Run-DMC, Nas, Mobb Deep, A Tribe Called Quest.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Queens, New York, 1980s
- Also called
- queens rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 5,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have queens hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Queens Hip Hop artists
50 Cent
Nicki Minaj
Nas
A Tribe Called Quest
Mobb Deep
Consequence
Action Bronson
Bas
Ja Rule
G-UnitThe queens hip hop 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.