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

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.

Welcome to Queer Jams of the Week, a weekly roundup of new music from LGBTQ+ artists including Sasami, Clairo and more.

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the first solo female rapper to take home a Grammy for lifetime achievement.“I ...

Across pop culture, Trump's second term is being met with less opposition than his first. Did everyone just give up?

A week before the NFL season culminates with Super Bowl 59 between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, the music industry’s biggest night will take center stage with the 67th Grammy Awards ...

Ahead of the release of his 15th solo album, Vaughaligan "Von Won" Walwyn talks music, politics, and Houston culture.

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 ...

Ahead of Sunday's 67th Grammys, here's a ranked list of all 66 songs that have won record of the year since the Recording ...

Feuding with Drake turned the ‘Not Like Us’ performer into hip-hop’s hottest artist. Now he will take music’s biggest stage ...