Hip-hop may be associated more with brags and bling ... It’s a staple of R&B radio station Christmas playlists, but it remains a festive classic in need of far greater recognition.

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 year in hip-hop was defined by an epic battle between two of the genre’s biggest stars, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the year’s ...

Widely used by discerning crate-diggers and hip-hop heads, the best Blue Note samples have become part of the cultural fabric. Emerging in the mid-70s and blooming spectacularly in the 80s ...

Spotify has been working with what the report describes as a “web” of production companies to pad out its playlists in genres like jazz, lo-fi hip-hop, ambient and classical. Since 2017 ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Bossman Dlow, Snoop Dogg, and Will Smith. Seeing this week’s lineup might prompt some confusion about just what decade it ...

By Trevor Anderson For a record-extending eighth time, Drake wins the year-end Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist honor as he crowns the 2024 recap. The superstar previously ruled in 2012 ...

Longtime collaborator Diddy deemed Mary J. Blige as the Queen of Hip Hop Soul since the singer first came onto the music scene in the '90s. In the earlier parts of her career, she used old-school ...

Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in the1970s. As hip-hop has evolved with several sub-genres like gangsta rap, conscious rap, trap, and many more, there's no ...

Hip-Hop and R&B are in a crazy place right now ... This year, we have a ton of rappers/singers that need to be on your playlist. Check out some artists to be on the lookout for in 2025 below.

To highlight this ongoing evolution of Chicago music, The TRiiBE presents 10 songs from 10 rising stars. They represent a new ...