THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

2024 has been filled with hip-hop highlights. While the culture experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has also been shaken multiple times due to the deaths of members of the hip-hop ...

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 ...

Las Vegas was the place to be Oct. 8 as BET celebrated the year’s best in hip-hop at the 2024 BET Hip-Hop Awards held at Drai’s Beachclub & Nightclub. For the third year, Fat Joe was the ...

New York City hip-hop pioneer DJ Clark Kent — who worked with some of the genre’s biggest names and introduced Jay-Z to Notorious B.I.G. — has died after a battle with colon cancer.

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 ...

Art-inspired sneakers have become a distinct form of self-expression for all the sneakerheads. Collaborations with celebrated ...

As a playlist by DJ Woof sets the mood, these gilded and diamond-encrusted necklaces, rings, and grills chart how hip-hop’s custom-crafted, oversized accessories became, like their wearers ...

Hip-hop's longtime love for Donald Trump and Sean "Diddy" Combs highlights some artists' disturbing infatuation with powerful abusers. By Ja'han Jones This post is the fourth in “MAGA and ...

The two-time Grammy winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, actor, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist is a hip hop icon, who first hit the scene in 1984 as Def Jam's flagship artist.