When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

See all these artists and many more in the Billboard staff’s list of top 20 best rap albums of the year, below. The Detroit spitter dropped three albums this year, each with a different producer.

And it makes sense. The Rap Avengers (Future, Metro Boomin, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Rick Ross, ASAP Rocky, etc.) teaming up to take down the reigning king of the rap charts was the ...

Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the year’s best rap albums, GNX, overshadowed only by Doechii, the latest talent to emerge from Lamar’s former label TDE.

Since its release, My Turn has remained a fixture on the Billboard 200, staying in the top 10 for over a year and charting ...

With that spirit, we’ve rounded up our 11 favorite rap albums from 2024 that might just ... inspired elements to the Hip Hop album, while “5 TO 10” serves as a tribute to the Texas native ...

Rap artists accounted for 5.7% of the top 100 tour grosses in 2024 ... with such acts qualifying due to recent performance on ...

But Kendrick wasn’t the only rapper who came through in 2024, even if all his press and outright dominance makes it feel that way. So here they are: the top 10 rap albums of 2024.