With Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 13-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Luther” falling off the Hot 100 dated Oct. 25, 2025, there were officially no rap songs in the chart’s top 40 last week. The ...

Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. Billboard links some of this change to new ...

MC Magic reflects on highlights of his 30 years in music on the eve of an anniversary concert at the Orpheum Theatre in ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appeared in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This came after “ Luther,” Kendrick Lamar’s duet with SZA, was removed from the chart following the ...

Since Drake’s debut, dozens of rapper like Doja Cat, Lil Yachty, and Young Thug have blurred the lines of pop music and rap ...

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 ...

For Good performed a new rap for The Tonight Show that is going viral. The number served as a sequel to the viral rap the two ...

But one rapper who has long feuded with a fellow 2000s music star says he thinks they’re bad for the culture — and for ...

The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.