From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Good music and a good drink often go hand in hand, but do we ever really stop to appreciate the pairing? We do now, because 2025 has been a banner year for rap music, but it’s also quietly been an ...

We rarely discuss December rap releases as the stuff of holiday ritual, but any rap recording that lands after the year’s best-of lists have been penned and published should register as a gesture of ...

Doechii’s “Nissan Altima” emerged as one of 2025’s most discussed breakout rap tracks. Featuring stinging lyricism, dramatic ...

Timothée Chalamet releases a brand-new music video with a mysterious new rapper name EsDeeKid to promote the upcoming Marty ...

Pac earns a surprise modern hit as “Hit ’Em Up” debuts on a Billboard chart, adding another posthumous milestone to the ...

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...

From Clipse to Tyler, the Creator to billy woods to Ovrkast to Bruiser Wolf, here are our favorite rap albums of 2025.

Pooh Shiesty enjoys an immediate welcome reception on Billboard ’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as he collects his first No.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from JID, Leikeli47, and Stormzy. Okay, so, I fudged it a bit. JID didn’t put out a new single this week, per se, but he did put out a ...

More than two decades after its release, Eminem's "Lose Yourself" finally becomes the bestselling rap song in America — as ...

Inspired by a new book tracing four pivotal years in the city’s history, hear a playlist of songs from the dawn of hip-hop that were swirling at the time. By Jonathan Mahler This is Jonathan Mahler. I ...