THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

November 26, 2024 • We take a look at the groundbreaking 1989 debut record from the rapper, singer and actress.

2024 has been a big year in hip-hop, and thanks in part to the return of some of hip-hop's biggest names, the sales numbers are turning up. Tyler, The Creator's Chromakopia album produced big ...

Since its earliest days, hip-hop has been inherently political – a powerful vehicle to deliver messages society needs to hear. Through the spoken word, its MCs have often conveyed the politics ...

I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of a greater effort to challenge antiquated ideas about ...

2024 has been filled with hip-hop highlights. While the culture experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has also been shaken multiple times due to the deaths of members of the hip-hop ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Wolfacejoeyy and Mac Ayres. In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and the official ...

Platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok are flooded with messages from celebrities and influencers urging people to vote, and hip-hop artists have been at the forefront, using their cultural ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. 50 Cent didn’t lean either way until the election, but he took a clear side after Trump’s victory. In the above post on Instagram, he wrote ...

And no, he's not joking. By Brande Victorian In episode one of Fat Joe Talks, the Bronx rapper and Method Man discuss the limits that were placed on them as hip-hop artists in the ‘90s and 2000s ...