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 ...

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

Here are the best songs of the week according to our staff, including new songs from Momma, Weatherday, 2hollis, JayWood, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 7th grade after listening to Kanye West’s album, “The College Dropout,” Gainesville native Sean Momberger began ...

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

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

This year, Kendrick Lamar will headline the halftime show. He'll be joined by SZA, making it one of the most anticipated ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

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

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 ...