Music genre

The answer

RAP

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAP answer page.

Used 23 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SOUL (27 uses in xd)
• ROCK (17 uses in xd)
• POP (14 uses in xd)
• EMO (8 uses in xd)
• METAL (7 uses in xd)

Other clues for RAP

Every other clue in this collection answered by RAP, most used first.

• Knock - used 263 times, most recently in 2026
• Grammy category - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Grammys category - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Sharp knock - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Drake's music - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• 50 Cent piece - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Criminal charge - used 27 times, most recently in 2017
• Eminem's genre - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Jay-Z's genre - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Blame - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
• Jay-Z's music - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Seance sound - used 22 times, most recently in 2019

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Angsty music genre - EMO, used 97 times
• Jamaican music genre - SKA, used 88 times
• Yoko of music - ONO, used 87 times
• Brian of ambient music - ENO, used 84 times
• Brian of Roxy Music - ENO, used 80 times
• Moody music - EMO, used 69 times

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