Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades of ...

The biggest rap tour of the year is by the same act who leads year-end charts for Top Rap Albums, Hot Rap Songs and Top Rap Artists. He caps an enormous two-year run that included the highest grossing ...

While some are pushing the narrative that the genre is dying, these artists released projects that beg to differ.

Billboard crowns Cardi B #1 on their hottest female rap artists of 2025 list beating out a number of other acts.

"Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A-minor." Kendrick Lamar's most famous lyric was heard around the world at last weekend's Super Bowl. An estimated 127 million viewers saw the rapper flash a ...

Like a soap opera, you skip an episode and lose track of the story. For the past month, two of the most successful hip-hop artists of recent times—Kendrick Lamar and Drake—have been embroiled in a ...

Before 2010, the Middle Eastern rap scene was growing, but little-known. Tight information controls and cultural stigma marginalized the genre, until internal tensions boiled over and the Arab Spring ...

When Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert was 20 years old, he uploaded a few songs to SoundCloud, a free music-sharing platform. The tracks got a couple hundred plays, then a few thousand. Three years ...