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 ...

While January is typically a slow month for music releases, there are still some rappers trying to make their mark on the new ...

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 ...

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

As tends to happen when a young person starts getting motion in the rap world, Drake reportedly followed Plaqueboymax over the weekend after shouting him out during his own livestream with Adin Ross.

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

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

Japanese boy band Psychic Fever say they hope to perform their hip-hop and R&B-infused tunes on a world tour as they prepare to kick off a U.S. series of concerts.

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, ...

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 aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...