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 ...

Complete with a sinister entreaty for kids to “be good for old Ghostface,” “Ghostface X-Mas” is a killer cut that stands among the best Christmas rap songs ever. The Southern rapper ...

Alabama-born rapper Flo Milli has been TikTok-famous since 2018’s “Beef FloMix,” but she hadn’t broken into the Hot 100 until ...

Hip-hop had its biggest year ever on stage. Rap artists accounted for 5.7% of the top 100 tour grosses in 2024, way up from 2 ...

Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco will serve as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Institute to teach a rap ...

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like US” is top selling rap song of 2024 Kendrick Lamar has had one of the most monumental years of his ...

Hip-hop artists from across the country dropped boisterous, infectious songs this year: some musicians released tracks to fuel the fire in their rap beefs, while others put out new songs to ...

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 ...

Elsewhere, generational talents like Playboi Carti and SahBabii contributed new sounds to the rap zeitgeist, making this year one of the most dynamic years in recent memory. These are the songs ...

2024 was a major year for hip-hop, with some of the biggest artists in the game engaging in historic rap beefs.

Including, but not limited to: hits, flops, obscurities, pop flash, guitar ragers, rap bangers, country twang, indie slop, ...