THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

We polled 108 critics from 15 countries across six continents to find out the best hip-hop song – here are their ballots in full (Warning: Some of the song titles in this list contain language ...

However, in recent years, there has been a massive slump in album sales numbers, all while the genre remains more popular ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from ASAP Ferg, Rich Homie Quan, and Tee Grizzley. This week, Eminem revealed he’s going to be a grandfather in his video for ...

Those who couldn’t comprehend rap’s rapid rise needed only to understand this: the speak-sing idiom allowed the marginalised, disenfranchised, oppressed and angry a vehicle for saying so.

Hip-hop legend LL Cool J stopped to talk with Baller Alert’s Ty Cole at the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) Gala, where he opened up about his illustrious career, his new album The Force ...

LL Cool J is 56, and has been a hip-hop eminence for four decades. Now, with his first album in 11 years, he’s returning to the form he helped create. The artist Missy Elliott breaks down the ...

A new album called Bully. Over the weekend, news broke that Yeezy is prepping to drop a brand new album. He told a crowd at the Wuyuan River Stadium in Haikou, China, that “I got a new album ...

“I’m gonna bang this b— the f— out,” Killer Mike declares at the beginning of “Run the Jewels 2,” a blaring declaration that this album will be one of the nastiest, most unrelenting hip-hop projects ...

"Hip hop has always been, at least when I started, it was underdog music," LL said. "And the reason why I bragged about having a gold chain or I bragged about having money in my early albums ...

His Playboi Carti collaboration “FE!N” is up for Song of the Year, and his album Utopia is nominated for Hip-Hop Album of the Year. Utopia arrived in July 2023, marking the Houston artist’s ...