Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay ...

2024 will be hard to top. The year included chart-topping albums from Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Tyler, The Creator, Future, Ye, ...

Ringo Starr maintains his perpetual optimism in “Look Up,” the title track of his new, Nashville-centered album. Written by T Bone Burnett and Daniel Tashian, the song posits, “There’s a light that ...

Hip-hop may have begun in the Bronx, but over the last 50 years Connecticut has developed its own vibrant artistic and ...

Hip-hop stands on the precipice of transformation, a genre redefining itself amidst political shifts, societal challenges, ...

Lupe Fiasco has been hired as a visiting professor at the first-ever Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop degree program at Johns ...

A final look back at some of our favorite characters, trends, lyrics and micro-moments of 2024. Plus: listener mailbag!

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

The visual narrative she creates challenges conventional music video formats, establishing a new benchmark for artistic ...

Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute is adding rap artist Lupe Fiasco to the faculty of its new four-year program in Hip Hop music.