The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...

Hip-hop is defined by its sub-genres. With each new decade or era, rappers of different regions and origins provide their own take on hip-hop, creating a new branch on the tree of the genre and ...

The 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards will honor the best performances, music videos, albums and artists of the last year on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m. ET on BET. Hosted by Fat Joe, you can watch the awards ...

We live in the Dot era. After demolishing rap rival Drake last year, Kendrick Lamar’s victory lap has dominated 2025 and the current hip-hop landscape. Super Bowl performance. More Grammy wins. “Not ...

For the first time since February 1990, the Billboard Hot 100 ’s top 40 section contained zero rap songs on the chart dated ...

In 2016, as "mumble rap" was being used as a slur for the first time, and SoundCloud had become a bolt-hole offering asylum to young hip-hop castoffs, a handful of the movement's defining figures were ...