Hip-hop is back on top. Hit Songs Deconstructed's 2024 State of the Hot 100's Top 10 report reveals trends of last year. Get ...

Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone Sitting in the Rolling Stone offices in late January, OsamaSon, born Amari Deshawn Middleton, ...

Hip-hop/rap reigned as the most common primary genre in the Hot 100’s top 10 throughout 2024, contributing to 38% of all top 10 hits, and bounding from a 23% take in 2023. Pop placed second with ...

His “GNX” album returns to the top of the Billboard 200 with 236,000 equivalent album units following his performance at the ...

Controversial American rapper, Kanye West, has said that he does not listen to rap music anymore. According to him, rappers are no longer making meaningful music. The billionaire mogul said there ...

Libyan rap, which thrived amid political turmoil and social issues, faces a crackdown as authorities in both the East and West impose stringent content regulations. Rappers now require permissions ...

Kendrick Lamar brought his Drake diss track “Not Like Us” to the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show — but made one big and telling ...

A handful of Black country artists featured on Beyoncé's album — Brittney Spencer, Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell, Tiera ...

What the music’s genius and limitations were. Who the people were who made such big impacts, pushing sounds into the future. Indeed, here below are three songs that explain rap in the 1980s.

Love has been a singular driving force in popular music for centuries, resulting in everything from R&B torch songs to power ballads. But what about in rap? While hip-hop has often had a ...