As district attorneys across the country have used rap lyrics to build criminal cases against artists with growing frequency since the early 2000s, state lawmakers are looking to implement a legal ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Hip-hop is bigger than ever, as it’s the most-consumed genre of ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

Rap music stands as a vibrant tapestry woven into the very fabric of the Black community, serving not just as an art form but as a resonant voice echoing its culture, struggles, and resilience. Yet, ...

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, ...

April 2 -- TUESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- Rap music is glamorizing drug use, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, who found a sixfold increase in drug ...

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 ...

In rap music, the guest feature is a sacred thing. It has many functions—it can be a way to introduce a new artist to the world, get a big name on a song by an up-and-coming artist who is in need of ...

Sincere Jazmin was only 16 years old when he was shot and killed by another teen at a bus stop in Queens, N.Y. on March 26. The young man was an aspiring rap artist who went by the name, “Sdot Blokka.

Years ago, a rap music fan described me as a "hip hop scold of the highest order." My sin against the music was calling out rap artists for their constant use of the "N-word," casually insulting women ...