2024 was a crazy year, but it was actually a really good year for Hip-Hop. Check out some of the best albums of the year, but we left space for you to tell us YOUR favorite! 2024 was an insane year ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Outside of those three near-sure bets, who else is in contention? GloRilla could become the eighth woman to earn a nomination for ...
The 67th annual Grammy Awards is going down live from Crypto.com Arena on Sunday (Feb. 2). The Recording Academy has bestowed former XXL Freshman Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal with the Best Rap ...
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 ...
One of the first albums I downloaded to my bulky iPod Classic as a teenager was Curren$y’s Pilot Talk. The song that brought me there was the smoker’s anthem ...
We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...
Doechii has dropped a new single, “Nosebleeds.” The swaggering track arrived only hours after the rapper scored the Grammy for Best Rap Album for her debut full-length Alligator Bites Never Heal. The ...
New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...
Kendrick Lamar’s surprise album GNX has become the most streamed rap album of 2025 on Spotify, cementing its place as one of the most influential hip-hop releases of the past year. Originally released ...
Don Toliver has reached a new career milestone in early 2026. His latest album, OCTANE, has officially recorded the biggest opening week for a rap album on Spotify this year. The project has already ...
Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...