Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

Hip-Hop/R&B accounted for 30.7% of all streams across platforms, making it by far the most dominant genre in 2024. This isn’t ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

In 2025, Mass Appeal launched the Legend Has It...campaign that repackages hip-hop class acts as a label asset class and long ...

Martha Stewart introduced a kaleidoscopic performance that pivoted from hip-hop to K-pop to crooning Christmas ballads.

The Notorious B.I.G. released Big Poppa, a record that would permanently shift his trajectory and reshape how Hip Hop crossed ...

Days after Ebro’s firing, Charlamagne announced a massive iHeartMedia extension. Reports estimate the deal near $200 million ...

If hip-hop music was the soundtrack of your life here in Hampton Roads in the 1990s, chances are you woke up in the morning to The Boodah Brothers on 103 JAMZ.

The end of Ebro in the Morning reignited long-running rap feuds and exposed deeper tensions about radio, relevance, and control in hip-hop media.

After an amazing 13-year run, “Ebro In The Morning” aired its final show on Dec. 12. Host Ebro Darden confirmed the news in ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY MAINSTREAM R&B/HIP-HOP RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY MONITORED 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS ...

For the first time in 35 years, the Billboard Hot 100 didn’t have a single rap song in its top 40 last month. But rap made a quick comeback, returning to the top 40 chart last week with Megan Thee ...