A$AP Rocky earns biggest album streaming debut of 2026 After nearly eight years away from releasing a solo studio album, […] ...

A$AP Rocky has spoken. The “Praise the Lord” rapper appeared to diss fellow hip hop star Drake on his newly released album ...

Five years after his last album, J. Cole is releasing his seventh studio album, "The Fall-Out", next month.

A multi-instrumentalist, rapper and producer, Forté carved out a solo career that blended hip-hop, folk, soul and rock ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Public Enemy sampled David Bowie’s classic “Fame” from the 1975 album Young Americans in the song “Night Of The Living Baseheads”. This standout track from the 1988 album It Takes A Nation OF Millions ...

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We don’t always feel cycles; we live through them. Sunsets on this spinning rock we inhabit aren’t the end of days — they’re just signs of another trip around the sun, a reset. Rap is no different; it ...

Album art clockwise from top left: Jen Kearney's "Gas Station Poet" (Photo by Lisa Dragani, cover art by Nicole Anguish); DAV's "Everything I Didn't Say" (Courtesy Davin Smith); Dot Dev's "There Was a ...

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