Remembering 18 influential Hip-hop artists who passed away in 2024, including Rich Homie Quan, DJ Mister Cee, and Rico Wade, ...

Lamar’s diss track ‘Not Like Us’ amid his feud with Drake has been named by several music critics as the song of 2024.

Jennifer Lopez once explained how she gave male rap stars a taste of their own medicine with the music video for this hit song.

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

The new year is here. After 2024 produced some standout projects from some of the game's biggest artists, 2025 is setting up ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco will serve as a distinguished visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Peabody ...

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

"Tweaker," the viral new song from LiAngelo Ball, taps Hot Boyz and Nelly for a fun sugar rush of a throwback jam.

The famed Chicago emcee adds the world-renowned institution to a resumé that already includes MIT and Yale University.

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...