It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

The best songs of 2025 delivered viral moments, genre shifts, and cultural heat. See which Hip Hop and R&B tracks defined ...

Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to "Trap Christmas"...rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms.

Sexyy Red is everywhere right now. She’s toured with Drake. beside some of rap’s biggest names like Latto and Lil Durk for remixes. She’s been spotted on the sideline for New York Jets and Penn State ...

Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and first of South Asian descent. Mamdani becomes the city’s first Muslim mayor and first of South Asian descent. 15 hours ago Cover art: 'Creed II: The ...

*Season 2 of Issa Rae’s widely acclaimed series “Rap Sh!t” returned to MAX on Nov. 9, and to celebrate, we spoke to Christina “Xtina” Prince, general manager of label + publishing at Raedio, about the ...

Issa Rae‘s Max series Rap Sh!t is returning for its second season on Nov. 9, but its soundtrack, Rap Sh!t S2: The Mixtape, will drop earlier on Nov. 3. The collection of songs will be released via Rae ...

Hip-hop began in 1973 Bronx as a voice against racism and inequality, rooted in DJing, rapping, dance, and graffiti. It later ...

Billboard's recent rule change ends a three-decade-long streak for the genre Michael Owens/Getty Kendrick Lamar's hit song "Luther," featuring SZA, fell off the Billboard Hot 100 chart The list now ...