Ask 10 hip-hop fans of different ages what the greatest year in rap music was, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Music consumption is a deeply personal endeavor, shaped by individual taste and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of four artists with "Best of 2024" text. Features Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt, Drake, and Doechii We try to stick to ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down a ...

Because the hip-hop genre has grown over the past three decades into a tremendous force in American and international popular culture, it can be easy to forget how relatively young it is, originating ...

In 1894, “The Little Lost Child” went “platinum” off sheet music sales in what might be considered the first successful music video marketing campaign. Innovations in aurafarming have taken things to ...

Hip Hop in 2025 didn’t move in a straight line — it expanded, paused, reflected, and, in many cases, recalibrated. Rather than being defined by one dominant sound or culture-consuming headline, the ...

Was February unseasonably warm where you live too? I think that's why the past month felt especially turnt up — not only are the days longer, but it's 66 and sunny out. I didn't take a week off work, ...

Last week, we published a list of the 50 Greatest Atlanta Rappers of All Time, focusing on individual artists and their contributions to hip-hop. This approach has its limitations—a framework like ...

For over two decades, the Recording Academy has honored the genre of hip-hop with its own music categories, including Best Rap Album, at their annual Grammy Awards ceremony. At the 2020 Grammy Awards, ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from J. Cole, Rico Nasty, and Doechii. I don’t know what was going on for the past seven days, but this week’s column is a doozy. To ...

Hip Hop was alive and well this year, despite rap momentarily dropping out of the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for about two weeks. There were big tours, major collaborations among some of our favorite ...