Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. ADVERTISEMENT It’s summer break 2001. You’re ten years old and at your grandparents’ house, watching TV, trying to savor the last remaining days ...
On Kendrick Lamar’s sixth studio album, “GNX,” he’s angry, swaggeringly arrogant and fiercely self-assured — and he has every right to be. Even before this monumental year, Lamar sat among some of rap ...
Kendrick Lamar has won Best Rap Song, for “Not Like Us,” at the 2025 Grammys. The anthemic Drake diss track earned Lamar his fifth victory in the category, following triumphs for “I,” “Alright,” ...
Born in the 1970s, hip-hop music was built largely on the beat breaks in disco songs. Some of the earliest hits in the genre sampled those dancey tracks, including “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill ...
Lazarus and Rakim’s “Not to Be Defined” bridges generations of hip-hop with sharp lyricism and timeless energy. October 2025, Hip-hop history is being written as “Not to Be Defined” by Detroit-based ...