The underground has always existed. Wherever there’s a mainstream, there’s a counterculture bubbling underneath it—breaking ...

One of the most influential voices of the seminal magazine The Source, he chronicled rap’s rise and its explosion into the ...

Asked to write a song for Young Thug, Nate Ruess accidentally wrote the perfect ending to The Format's first release in 20 ...

North West raps that she was “banned” from school in a new song with her dad, Kanye West . The 12-year-old daughter of the Grammy winner and Kim Kardashian shared a teaser for the track on her ...

Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, was honored Monday by the 5000 Role Models of Excellence at the nonprofit’s 33rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast at the Miami Beach ...

Motivated by alarming global statistics on domestic violence, Steven Al Baghdadi uses his music to speak out for women, ...

The artist reflects on how the chaotic eight years since his last release — including three kids and two trials — led to his ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...