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

Barack Obama's 2025 playlist highlighted Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Gunna as key Hip-Hop voices shaping the sound of today and ...

Barack Obama’s 2025 playlist spans 30 tracks across Hip Hop, Afrobeats, pop and more genres. Kendrick Lamar and Drake both ...

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 ...

The streaming giant beat out Paramount and Comcast after a unanimous board vote. 20 hours ago With part of his job at the audio-based fitness app Aaptiv being the curation of background tracks for ...

In celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary this year, listen to the biggest chart-topping songs in a new playlist powered by McDonald's. The Billboard Hot 100 chart has become the music industry ...

Don't you miss the days when the leader of the free world was an unabashed hip-hop head? Forget about the Kanye West's bromance with 45—we're talking about former U.S. President Barack Obama, who ...

For the last week of Hispanic Heritage Month, music journalist Sandra Treviño points to Latine artists who are weaving traditional music into their takes on the uniquely American genre. Chicago ...

This is a collaborative playlist. Email us at [email protected] and tell us what songs we missed and why. Hip-hop has permeated nearly every facet of popular culture since its inception 50 years ...

Born in the Bronx during a hot August night, hip hop has gone from rocking the underground to ruling the world. After defying the initial skepticism from mainstream audiences and commercial outlets, ...

Apple Music has renamed its "The A-List: Hip-Hop" playlist to "Rap Life." Ebro Darden, global editorial head of hip-hop and R&B at ‌Apple Music‌, will host a companion "Rap Life" segment during his ...