It’s Bad Bunny’s first No. 1 on the all-genre Hot 100 as a lead artist. Prior to this, he’d topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart numerous times but only ever topped the Hot 100 once as a ...

Florida rapper Lil Poppa has died by suicide, Georgia authorities said. He was 25. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's ...

Gemini is getting access to Lyria 3 in beta, allowing users to create 30-second long songs/bangers by inputting a prompt or uploading a picture. No lyrics needs, just a simple prompt. Lyria 3 offers ...

Maxx Crosby dropped a snippet of his new song this week, and Niners fans believe some of the lyrics indicate good news is on the horizon for San Francisco’s defense.

Kelly Oubre’s new single, "Fast & Furious," dropped over the NBA All-Star break and is his first since 2023. The veteran ...

Jermaine Cole, who performs under the stage name J. Cole, uploaded a video on Instagram announcing his final album on Jan. 14 ...

What's going on with rap? After celebrating 50 years of legacy in 2023 with marquee moments like the Hip Hop 50 multi-headliner concert at Yankee Stadium, plus Kendrick Lamar's historic run – capped ...

In 1989, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince received the first-ever rap Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance for their track, “Parents Just Don’t Understand”. Since then, the genre has grown ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Timothée Chalamet shouted out his girlfriend Kylie Jenner in his new rap song with his rumored alter-ego EsDeeKid. “It’s Timothée Chalamet chillin’, tryin’ to stack $100 million. Girl got $1 billion,” ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...