On Sunday afternoon (Feb. 2), hours before the 67th annual Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar was awarded a golden gramophone for Best Rap Song at a pre-show premiere ceremony at the Cypto.com arena in Los ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

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Florida native rapper Doechii had an electric year in 2024 and is finding a ton of success in 2025 thus far. On Sunday, Feb.

You know how the cliché goes: rappers want to be basketball players, and basketball players want to be rappers. This has been a truism since the '90s, when rap really started taking off as a ...

As hip-hop has grown into a billion dollar industry, hooks from R&B singers have helped rappers take over the pop charts, and hip-hop has, in turn, influenced the changing sound of soul music. Rakim’s ...

Drake has one of the most unexpected and impressive careers in the music industry. The now-iconic rapper released his first mixtape in 2006 and left "Degrassi" in 2008. He has won five Grammys, broken ...

In a post on his X account, Wale described the song as one of the greatest ever written. Many listeners and fans will agree with the rapper's opinion about the hit song released in 2022 as one of the ...

Many have claimed the moniker of “the best rapper alive,” but hip-hop legend and pioneer LL Cool J took that a step further. The legendary rapper stated he believes that one day “people are going to ...