He has a Euro-vision. Jordan Coleman, Mayor Eric Adams’ 29-year-old son, is back in the Big Apple after competing abroad in the Albanian equivalent of “American Idol” — and has dropped an EP of five ...

In 1894, “The Little Lost Child” went “platinum” off sheet music sales in what might be considered the first successful music video marketing campaign. Innovations in aurafarming have taken things to ...

For years now, one of hip-hop’s most common debates has been: Who is the next Kendrick Lamar? The question reflects eternal anxiety about rap’s future as a storytelling medium. When the ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. Thirteendegrees is the kind of artist who can make Amazon threads look fresh and the simplest ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists in hip-hop history have matched the meteoric rise and cultural impact of MC Hammer. Emerging from Oakland’s music scene in the late 1980s, he quickly evolved from a local ...

In 2024, rap music and hip-hop culture are almost inextricable from the commercial record industry. Created and incubated by people on the socioeconomic margins and firmly outside of the mainstream, ...

It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.