The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from EST Gee, Nardo Wick, and Will Smith.

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Hip-hop is well-represented in the 2024 Uproxx Critics Poll, in a year defined as much by conflict as anything else. This is the 7th annual version of the poll, in which nearly 300 music critics from ...

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Abir and Naika. With the back-to-back frenzy of Grammy Week and Super Bowl LIX officially at our doorsteps, all eyes are on ...

Today’s selection features a few indie stalwarts returning with new albums ( Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Japanese Breakfast ) ...

Mac Miller's Balloonerism bows at No. 1 across multiple Billboard album charts, including Top Album Sales, Top Rap Albums, ...

Drake and Kendrick Lamar have exchanged a flurry of diss tracks since last March, including "Not Like Us." We ranked all eight songs from worst to best.

Drake was raised in Toronto and worked as a child actor on "Degrassi." After pivoting to music, he became one of the most ...

The beef between the two hip-hop stars seemed to reach a point of no return after Lamar released his diss track "Not Like Us.