Rap Rock
Rap rock combines rapped vocals and hip hop beats with the guitars, bass and live drums of rock.
It developed in the United States in the 1980s through crossovers between hip hop acts and rock bands, and became a major commercial style in the late 1990s. Verses are usually rapped over heavy riffs or sampled loops, with a sung or shouted chorus. Its heavier relatives are rap metal and nu metal, which use down-tuned metal guitars.
Artists it is known for: Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Linkin Park.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, 1980s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have rap rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Rap Rock artists
Staind
Chevelle
Rage Against The Machine
Rob Zombie
Insane Clown Posse
Papa Roach
Joey Valence & Brae
A Perfect Circle
Beastie Boys
Hollywood Undead
The rap rock 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.