The most memorable moment in rap of 2024 isn’t an album, it’s the multi-song rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that culminated in the release of the year’s most world-conquering rap song, ...

DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to "Trap Christmas"...rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms.

Some believe the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and 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 ...

More than two decades after its release, Eminem's "Lose Yourself" finally becomes the bestselling rap song in America — as the star scores his first rock hit as well. INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY ...

Some people expect great art to come to some grand conclusion on life, death, and the meaning of it all. All that stuff is cool, but hey—at the end of the day, we’re all just trying to get laid, too.

You know how the cliché goes: rappers want to be basketball players, and basketball players want to be rappers. This has been a truism since the '90s, when rap really started taking off as a ...

After recently getting 2025 Grammy nominations for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Rap Record of the Year, and Rap Performance of the Year, Kendrick Lamar has been crowned Apple Music's Rap ...

Billboard's recent rule change ends a three-decade-long streak for the genre Kendrick Lamar's hit song "Luther," featuring SZA, fell off the Billboard Hot 100 chart The list now lacks a rap track, ...

In rap music, the guest feature is a sacred thing. It has many functions—it can be a way to introduce a new artist to the world, get a big name on a song by an up-and-coming artist who is in need of ...

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 ...