Look for Don Toliver to score his first Best Rap Album nomination, and strong showings by J. Cole, Cardi B, A$AP Rocky ...

While rock and hip-hop are often seen as two vastly different worlds, the two genres have a more intertwined history than some music fans give them credit for. Ranging from the earliest years of rap ...

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...

Luke Combs breaks onto Billboard’s rap charts with BigXthaPlug collab “Pray Hard,” which debuts inside the top 10 on the Rap Digital Song Sales list. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MAY 23: Luke Combs ...

The Houston rapper ends rap's first period of being totally absent from the chart's top 40 since 1990. By Andrew Unterberger For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and ...

We live in the Dot era. After demolishing rap rival Drake last year, Kendrick Lamar’s victory lap has dominated 2025 and the current hip-hop landscape. Super Bowl performance. More Grammy wins. “Not ...

Lamar joins Ye & Jay-Z as the only rappers with 20-plus Grammy victories. By Michael Saponara Kendrick Lamar is a 20-time Grammy Award winner, and he could be adding more to that tally later Sunday ...

Although “Rapper’s Delight” undeniably helped popularize rap as a genre, the jury’s still out as far as what the first actual rap song was. The Fatback Band’s “King Tim III (Personality Jock)” ...

The world of popular music looks different on the outside than it does behind the scenes. On the face of it, things often seem smooth. An artist performs a song, it rockets up the charts, and everyone ...

In 1894, “The Little Lost Child” went “platinum” off sheet music sales in what might be considered the first successful music video marketing campaign. Innovations in aurafarming have taken things to ...