In 2022, the hip-hop world experienced a real reshuffling of the decks. At the top of the year, megastars Drake, Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar delivered landmark albums that fell shy of possibly ...

200 Greatest Rap Albums of All Time. After the horrific tragedy at his Astroworld Festival, it’s hard to listen to this album with much objectivity, let alone any sympathy.

2018 was a monumental year for hip-hop releases. Here are the albums and artists who can keep that momentum going in 2019. The Most Anticipated Hip-Hop Albums of 2019 ...

By this time last year, 85 hip-hop albums made up the top 200 albums. And while 12 of the 25 most popular albums overall this time last year were hip-hop, that’s dropped by half in 2023.

1988 was arguably hip-hop's finest 12 months. We look at 15 rap albums that put it on top.

When it comes to truth in advertising, few albums this year are going to top Lil Jon’s just-released Total Meditation.Not remotely hip hop, the music is instead a soothing sonic bath akin to ...

Jeff Ihaza joins host Brian Hiatt to dive into Rolling Stone‘s list of the best hip-hop albums of 2021, while Joseph Hudak explores our country/Americana list, and Kory Grow goes through the ...

The year in hip-hop was defined by an epic battle between two of the genre’s biggest stars, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the year’s ...

The 20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2021. The year's most impressive rap releases included bold moves from Young Thug, ... “That shit is fucking intuition,” he told Rolling Stone earlier this year.

Rolling Stone Music Now looks at the hip-hop songs and albums that defined the first half of 2021. ... as well as Rolling Stone’s overall rankings of 2021’s top albums.

2013 was a huge year for hip-hop, with high-profile releases from some of the biggest names in rap – including Kanye West, Jay Z, Drake, Eminem, Lil Wayne – doing battle on the charts and in ...

20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2019 In a year where rap's biggest stars (Kanye West excepted) took a break, a new class of stars, from Megan Thee Stallion to DaBaby to Roddy Ricch, emerged. These are ...