The year 2025 was rich with new original music from New Jersey and here's a sample of the 13 best the state has to offer.

The best songs of 2025 delivered viral moments, genre shifts, and cultural heat. See which Hip Hop and R&B tracks defined ...

Fans called the shots in 2025. Discover the top genres and what their choices mean for the future of music in 2026.

Songs are history. They ground us in a time and place. And that could be felt acutely in 2025. So let’s celebrate some great ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years.” That’s what LL Cool J famously declared on his hit "Mama Said Knock You Out ...

All-time greats Nas (working with producer extraordinaire DJ Premier) and De La Soul dropped lively, sonically eclectic ...

Savage's 'What Happened to the Streets' debuts at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with 73,000 units, securing the rapper's fifth consecutive champ.

The ‘Superman’ writer-director took time out from head-honchoing the DC Universe to make us a killer year-end playlist.

From Clipse to Nas, and from the underground to the global stage, hip-hop returned to its foundation — prioritizing culture, ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

Was it a good year for hip-hop? If you look at the Billboard charts—where very few rap songs released this year cracked the top 40—the answer would seem to be no. But if you focus on albums, the story ...