Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has new life stretching all the way across ...

Diplo returns with ‘D00mscrvll Vol. 1’, a new mixtape diving into the world of phonk. The project features Juicy J, Project Pat, Benny Benassi and Yo Gotti, blending Memphis rap with modern electronic ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs.

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener ...

The idea of Ice Cube and Korn sharing a bill might not seem strange now, but in the 90s, it was a thrilling novelty ...

Formed in 2022, the group proceeded to drop its first two albums in 2023 and a third in 2024 before reaching a milestone deal under Virgin Music Group in May.

A year on from winning Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition, JayaHadADream is delivering genre-hopping excellence and racking up recognition in the grime scene ...

Ghost of Yōtei – Music from Watanabe Mode brings an iconic anime touch to PlayStation®5’s latest samurai adventure. The EP follows the game’s original soundtrack by Toma Otowa, a 22-track score fusing ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...