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

Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté, who pushed the art form forward as a teenage battle rapper in the 1980s, is set to become the ...

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 ...

Space City Church in southwest Houston was built for Sunday sermons and hip-hop music. The dimly-lit sanctuary boasts performance-ready features: a tech-fitted console that doubles as a DJ booth, ...

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

The rapper and DJ, who died over the weekend at 43, was the biggest hit for the indie label Big Oomp Records. Its brief but ...

It’s a new year, and a new crop of rappers to watch. Here are 25 rappers you need to check out in 2025.

These hip-hop one-hit wonders are still timeless today, and it's hard to stay still when they come on the radio.

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"I Smoke, I Drank" peaked at No. 25 on Billboard's Hot Rap Songs chart. In addition to being ... the most dominant athlete-turned-rapper of all time. Shaq released five studio albums, the first ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – A Syracuse man’s rap music video played for a jury showed him raising his arm and miming firing a gun. The lyrics included a line that a gang expert says refers to a rival ...

This spiraled into a diss-track war in April and May, with Cole, Drake, Rick Ross, and Lamar all releasing new songs ... all time. In October 2023, Drake scored his 13th Billboard Hot 100 No.1 ...