The stroke of genius seems to be a genetic factor in the West family. Despite that, Kanye West seems to be holding his ...

RIAA announces NBA YoungBoy holds more gold and platinum certifications than any other rapper ever including Kanye West, ...

Write CommentIn a new, marathon interview with The New York Times, the president couldn’t resist taking another swing at his favorite political target… former president, Joe Biden. “I think Joe Biden ...

Like many of Legxacy's songs, Aggressive sampled a classic UK rap track – in this case Chipmunk's Oopsy Daisy. He frequently ...

What happens when you mix some of the region’s most hungry emcees and producers with summer camp? The answer unfolds in “Welcome to Rap Campp,” a new documentary that captures a 24-hour marathon ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Timothée Chalamet shouted out his girlfriend Kylie Jenner in his new rap song with his rumored alter-ego EsDeeKid. “It’s Timothée Chalamet chillin’, tryin’ to stack $100 million. Girl got $1 billion,” ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. You can hear these songs in our ongoing Best ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

DC Comics has recently revamped their history with New History of the DC Universe, a four-issue series that gave readers the canon timeline of the publisher in 2025. It was fun to take a walk back ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. As multiple cuts featured on Private Music continue to rise on the ...