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What Is Chicago Rap? Genre, History & Artists

The short answer

Chicago rap covers the city's distinct hip-hop scenes — from the aggressive, dark production of drill to boom-bap lyricism.

Live genre mix

Genre mix: what the US streams today

Every day musicpiechart records the genre families behind Spotify's daily charts. The pie is the latest mix; the chart under it shows how that mix moved.

Alternative & Indie: 24%Pop: 24%Hip-Hop & Rap: 15%Country: 11%R&B & Soul: 10%Rock: 8%Other: 8%

What the US is streaming today

Genre mix of Spotify's daily top 200, by streams, on October 14, 2026 · updated 14 Oct

  • Alternative & Indie 24%
  • Pop 24%
  • Hip-Hop & Rap 15%
  • Country 11%
  • R&B & Soul 10%
  • Rock 8%
  • Other 8%

Genre share over 29 recorded days

September 16 to October 14, 2026. Each band is one genre family's share of the chart's daily streams, stacked to 100%; a missing day leaves a gap.

Stacked area chart of genre-family share of daily streams on the United States Spotify chart, September 16 to October 14, 2026 Each coloured band is one genre family's share of the chart's daily streams, stacked to 100 percent. Days with no recorded edition leave a gap in every band. Hover a day for its shares; the data table below lists every value. 100% 75% 50% 25% 0% Sep 16 Sep 30 Oct 14 Sep 16, 2026: Pop 23.4%, Alternative & Indie 22.2%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.1%, Country 12.1%, R&B & Soul 10.3%, Rock 8.9%, Other 9.0% Sep 17, 2026: Pop 23.4%, Alternative & Indie 21.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.1%, Country 13.4%, R&B & Soul 9.4%, Rock 8.8%, Other 9.3% Sep 18, 2026: Pop 23.2%, Alternative & Indie 20.5%, Hip-Hop & Rap 15.0%, Country 15.6%, R&B & Soul 9.2%, Rock 8.0%, Other 8.6% Sep 19, 2026: Pop 23.9%, Alternative & Indie 20.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.0%, Country 15.9%, R&B & Soul 9.4%, Rock 7.5%, Other 9.4% Sep 20, 2026: Pop 23.8%, Alternative & Indie 22.2%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.2%, Country 14.5%, R&B & Soul 9.9%, Rock 7.0%, Other 8.5% Sep 21, 2026: Pop 22.4%, Alternative & Indie 23.5%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.4%, Country 13.5%, R&B & Soul 10.4%, Rock 8.3%, Other 8.4% Sep 22, 2026: Pop 22.4%, Alternative & Indie 23.9%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.4%, Country 12.8%, R&B & Soul 10.2%, Rock 8.8%, Other 8.4% Sep 23, 2026: Pop 21.7%, Alternative & Indie 25.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.3%, Country 13.1%, R&B & Soul 9.9%, Rock 8.1%, Other 8.9% Sep 24, 2026: Pop 21.4%, Alternative & Indie 25.7%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.4%, Country 13.4%, R&B & Soul 9.1%, Rock 8.5%, Other 8.6% Sep 25, 2026: Pop 41.7%, Alternative & Indie 18.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 10.1%, Country 11.2%, R&B & Soul 7.3%, Rock 5.4%, Other 6.0% Sep 26, 2026: Pop 33.2%, Alternative & Indie 19.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 12.5%, Country 13.1%, R&B & Soul 8.6%, Rock 5.6%, Other 7.5% Sep 27, 2026: Pop 30.2%, Alternative & Indie 22.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 12.6%, Country 12.4%, R&B & Soul 8.7%, Rock 6.8%, Other 7.3% Sep 28, 2026: Pop 32.7%, Alternative & Indie 22.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 11.4%, Country 11.1%, R&B & Soul 8.8%, Rock 6.7%, Other 6.8% Sep 29, 2026: Pop 30.8%, Alternative & Indie 23.1%, Hip-Hop & Rap 11.6%, Country 11.1%, R&B & Soul 8.9%, Rock 7.6%, Other 6.9% Sep 30, 2026: Pop 28.3%, Alternative & Indie 22.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 11.6%, Country 11.8%, R&B & Soul 9.7%, Rock 9.2%, Other 6.7% Oct 1, 2026: Pop 28.9%, Alternative & Indie 23.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 11.3%, Country 11.8%, R&B & Soul 10.3%, Rock 7.4%, Other 7.1% Oct 2, 2026: Pop 26.9%, Alternative & Indie 20.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 15.7%, Country 11.9%, R&B & Soul 8.8%, Rock 6.6%, Other 9.4% Oct 3, 2026: Pop 27.6%, Alternative & Indie 19.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 16.1%, Country 12.9%, R&B & Soul 9.5%, Rock 6.1%, Other 8.1% Oct 4, 2026: Pop 26.4%, Alternative & Indie 23.2%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.8%, Country 12.2%, R&B & Soul 10.1%, Rock 5.5%, Other 7.9% Oct 5, 2026: Pop 25.3%, Alternative & Indie 24.2%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.8%, Country 11.9%, R&B & Soul 9.2%, Rock 7.0%, Other 8.6% Oct 6, 2026: Pop 25.7%, Alternative & Indie 23.9%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.8%, Country 11.8%, R&B & Soul 9.2%, Rock 7.0%, Other 8.6% Oct 7, 2026: Pop 25.1%, Alternative & Indie 23.8%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.8%, Country 12.3%, R&B & Soul 9.0%, Rock 7.8%, Other 8.2% Oct 8, 2026: Pop 26.6%, Alternative & Indie 23.7%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.1%, Country 11.3%, R&B & Soul 8.7%, Rock 7.4%, Other 8.1% Oct 9, 2026: Pop 26.0%, Alternative & Indie 22.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.9%, Country 12.7%, R&B & Soul 9.8%, Rock 6.6%, Other 8.1% Oct 10, 2026: Pop 25.9%, Alternative & Indie 21.6%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.9%, Country 13.7%, R&B & Soul 10.0%, Rock 6.3%, Other 7.6% Oct 11, 2026: Pop 23.9%, Alternative & Indie 24.0%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.6%, Country 12.9%, R&B & Soul 10.5%, Rock 6.2%, Other 7.9% Oct 12, 2026: Pop 24.4%, Alternative & Indie 25.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 13.4%, Country 12.7%, R&B & Soul 10.0%, Rock 7.4%, Other 6.8% Oct 13, 2026: Pop 24.8%, Alternative & Indie 24.4%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.2%, Country 11.1%, R&B & Soul 10.1%, Rock 7.4%, Other 8.0% Oct 14, 2026: Pop 24.2%, Alternative & Indie 24.3%, Hip-Hop & Rap 14.9%, Country 11.2%, R&B & Soul 10.1%, Rock 7.4%, Other 8.0%
  • Pop 24.2% · +0.8 pts
  • Alternative & Indie 24.3% · +2.0 pts
  • Hip-Hop & Rap 14.9% · +0.8 pts
  • Country 11.2% · -1.0 pts
  • R&B & Soul 10.1% · -0.2 pts
  • Rock 7.4% · -1.4 pts
  • Other 8.0% · -1.0 pts
Genre-share data table
Genre-family share of daily streams, by day
Day PopAlternative & IndieHip-Hop & RapCountryR&B & SoulRockOther
Oct 14, 2026 24.2%24.3%14.9%11.2%10.1%7.4%8.0%
Oct 13, 2026 24.8%24.4%14.2%11.1%10.1%7.4%8.0%
Oct 12, 2026 24.4%25.3%13.4%12.7%10.0%7.4%6.8%
Oct 11, 2026 23.9%24.0%14.6%12.9%10.5%6.2%7.9%
Oct 10, 2026 25.9%21.6%14.9%13.7%10.0%6.3%7.6%
Oct 9, 2026 26.0%22.0%14.9%12.7%9.8%6.6%8.1%
Oct 8, 2026 26.6%23.7%14.1%11.3%8.7%7.4%8.1%
Oct 7, 2026 25.1%23.8%13.8%12.3%9.0%7.8%8.2%
Oct 6, 2026 25.7%23.9%13.8%11.8%9.2%7.0%8.6%
Oct 5, 2026 25.3%24.2%13.8%11.9%9.2%7.0%8.6%
Oct 4, 2026 26.4%23.2%14.8%12.2%10.1%5.5%7.9%
Oct 3, 2026 27.6%19.8%16.1%12.9%9.5%6.1%8.1%
Oct 2, 2026 26.9%20.6%15.7%11.9%8.8%6.6%9.4%
Oct 1, 2026 28.9%23.3%11.3%11.8%10.3%7.4%7.1%
Sep 30, 2026 28.3%22.8%11.6%11.8%9.7%9.2%6.7%
Sep 29, 2026 30.8%23.1%11.6%11.1%8.9%7.6%6.9%
Sep 28, 2026 32.7%22.6%11.4%11.1%8.8%6.7%6.8%
Sep 27, 2026 30.2%22.1%12.6%12.4%8.7%6.8%7.3%
Sep 26, 2026 33.2%19.3%12.5%13.1%8.6%5.6%7.5%
Sep 25, 2026 41.7%18.3%10.1%11.2%7.3%5.4%6.0%
Sep 24, 2026 21.4%25.7%13.4%13.4%9.1%8.5%8.6%
Sep 23, 2026 21.7%25.1%13.3%13.1%9.9%8.1%8.9%
Sep 22, 2026 22.4%23.9%13.4%12.8%10.2%8.8%8.4%
Sep 21, 2026 22.4%23.5%13.4%13.5%10.4%8.3%8.4%
Sep 20, 2026 23.8%22.2%14.2%14.5%9.9%7.0%8.5%
Sep 19, 2026 23.9%20.0%14.0%15.9%9.4%7.5%9.4%
Sep 18, 2026 23.2%20.5%15.0%15.6%9.2%8.0%8.6%
Sep 17, 2026 23.4%21.6%14.1%13.4%9.4%8.8%9.3%
Sep 16, 2026 23.4%22.2%14.1%12.1%10.3%8.9%9.0%

Alternative & Indie leads the genre mix on the US Spotify daily chart with 24.3% of the day's streams (19.6M plays), ahead of Pop at 24.2% and Hip-Hop & Rap at 14.9% on October 14, 2026. Across the 29 recorded days from September 16 to October 14, 2026, Alternative & Indie gained the most share, up 2.0 points to 24.3% of streams, while Rock slipped the most, down 1.4 points to 7.4%. Chicago Rap sits in the Hip-Hop & Rap family, which holds 14.9% of that chart's streams (+0.8 pts over the window). Shares are stream-weighted: every play of a song on the US Spotify daily chart counts once, credited to its lead artist's genre family. Every song that Spotify can classify counts; every family outside the biggest six is grouped with them as Other. The figures come from spotify-top.com's daily charts, recorded once a day by Music Pie Chart.

Top Chicago Rap artists on Spotify

Artists in our catalogue tagged with this genre, ranked by Spotify popularity.

  1. Bump J

  2. BJ The Chicago Kid

  3. Lil Reese

  4. Mick Jenkins

  5. Calboy

  6. VIC MENSA

  7. GLC

  8. BigKayBeezy

Hip-Hop & Rap: 80%R&B & Soul: 20%
80%Hip-Hop & Rap

Beyond Chicago Rap

What else do Chicago Rap artists play?

The other genre families Chicago Rap's top artists on Spotify are tagged with.

  • Hip-Hop & Rap 80%
  • R&B & Soul 20%

Everything about Chicago Rap

What Is Chicago Rap Genre?

The Chicago Rap genre is rap music that was created by rappers from Chicago. These songs often have hard-hitting beats and strong lyrics exploring political themes.

What Is The Chicago Style Of Rap?

The Chicago style of Rap is rap music that originated in Chicago. Its main features include hard-hitting beats and aggressive lyrics often about political topics.

What Is Chicago Rap Called?

Chicago Rap is also sometimes called Drill Music or Chicago Hip Hop.

Some Best Chicago Rap Artists Include:

  • Lil Durk

  • King Louie

  • Chief Keef

  • Juice WRLD

  • Kanye West

  • Chance the Rapper

Some Old Chicago Rappers And 90s Chicago Rappers Include:

  • Vakill

  • Twista

  • Common

  • Do or Die

  • The Notorious B.I.G.

  • MC Juice (J.U.I.C.E.)

Who Was The Best Chicago Rapper?

There is no one answer to who was the best Chicago rapper because every Chicago Rap fan has their own favorite artist.

Who Is The Godfather Of Chicago Rap?

No I.D. has been the producer behind some of the most notable names in Chicago Rap and Hip Hop for over 20 years, earning him the title of the Godfather of Chicago Rap.

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