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 ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from J. Cole, Rico Nasty, and Doechii. I don’t know what was going on for the past seven days, but this week’s column is a doozy.

Listen to new songs by Weatherday, Perfume Genius, The Smile (remixes), Snapped Ankles, Smerz, Movements, Curren$y & Harry Fraud, and more. Listen to new songs from ...

If there is one MC who stands heads and shoulders above the rest in the category of rap love songs, it’s the overweight lover himself, New York’s own Heavy D. “Nuttin’ But Love” is one ...

The best New Jack Swing songs are sonically defined as R&B with production more traditionally associated with hip-hop. But it’s also a culture too. In 1987, writer Barry Michael Cooper went to ...

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 ...

a rap beef, I’m tryna get the party lit.” While Some Sexy Songs 4 U is Drake’s first official full-length release since For All The Dogs in 2023, it is not his first batch of new music that ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Drake, PartyNextDoor, and Cash Cobain. Ah, Valentine’s Day. A day for romance — or, if you’re a rapper, for flying in ...

1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The culture-shaping hit re-enters directly at the summit on the list dated Feb. 22 after its high-profile inclusion at Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX ...

Young activists are forming a new core of the AfD, Germany’s nationalist, anti-immigrant party. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times They are building on the party’s base, which has ...

While hip-hop and all of its creative expressions was born in New York City in the late 1970s ... Indeed, here below are three songs that explain rap in the 1980s. After rap music’s salad ...