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

The 67th Grammy Awards are this Sunday night, making it the perfect time to look back at the five projects that earned a nomination for Best Rap Album. While so ...

While there are many questions to be asked and answered at the Grammys on Sunday, here is who we predict will take home ...

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 ...

As with hip-hop, by the the mid-1980s house music had become a cultural force, spreading from Chicago to Detroit, to New York and, eventually, to the U.K.’s rave scene. Its emphasis on repetition, ...

Here's who won album of the year since the Grammys began in 1959, from Henry Mancini to Taylor Swift.

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 ...