At the turn of the 21st century, important rappers were making music. These are three rap Grammy Award winners from 2002 we ...

Nearly 15 years after the Grammys started handing out trophies to rappers, these are three rap Grammy Award winners who took ...

One of the most influential voices of the seminal magazine The Source, he chronicled rap’s rise and its explosion into the ...

With Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 13-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Luther” falling off the Hot 100 dated Oct. 25, 2025, there were officially no rap songs in the chart’s top 40 last week. The ...

As rap stops appearing in global charts, fans wonder if rap is on the decline in it's prominence in the current culture.

This story is the second installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of rap music. This year ...

With no obvious consensus about where hip-hop is headed, here are 15-occasionally reckless-predictions for rap music in 2025.

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...

Billboard‘s recent rule changes sparked a concerned discussion after they resulted in a two-week absence of rap music in the Hot 100 chart’s top 40 for the first time in almost three decades. “Is ...

Def Jam, the influential US record label, will launch a division in the "capital of Chinese hip-hop" Chengdu, its parent ...

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