Hip Hop was alive and well this year, despite rap momentarily dropping out of the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for about two weeks. There were big tours, major collaborations among some of our favorite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year’s Best Rap Album race should come down to Kendrick or Clipse, even if the other three nominees are all worthy in their ...

So much rap music comes out all the time, and especially with frequent surprise releases, it can be hard to keep track of it all. So, as a way to help keep up with all of it, here’s a roundup of the 5 ...

Because the hip-hop genre has grown over the past three decades into a tremendous force in American and international popular culture, it can be easy to forget how relatively young it is, originating ...

In 1894, “The Little Lost Child” went “platinum” off sheet music sales in what might be considered the first successful music video marketing campaign. Innovations in aurafarming have taken things to ...

Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers who ...

Billboard‘s recent rule changes sparked a concerned discussion after they resulted in a two-week absence of rap music in the Hot 100 chart’s top 40 for the first time in almost three decades. “Is ...

Hip Hop in 2025 didn’t move in a straight line — it expanded, paused, reflected, and, in many cases, recalibrated. Rather than being defined by one dominant sound or culture-consuming headline, the ...

“Talking to my shadow, he advised me not to worry / Said I should plant my tree and let it rise out of the fury” Slug of Atmosphere is all about positivity, and on the title track of the duo’s second ...