Kendrick Lamar struck a chord at the Super Bowl, and it was definitely a major. The hip-hop legend triumphed in his halftime show at the big game in the New Orleans’ Caesar Superdome, in the middle of ...

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 ...

The "In Da Club" rapper took to Instagram to pay his own kind of tribute to the late Murder Inc. founder, who was a close ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from EST Gee, Nardo Wick, and Will Smith. Sounds like an odd combo, right? After all, Will Smith has largely been recognized as ...

Some astrophysicists believe that the universe existed before the big bang, but if you reject that hypothesis, go ahead and ...

With the biggest captive audience of his career, Lamar's performance conjures a medley of hits that spans his 15-year ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

On this date in 2003, 50 Cent released ... any debut Hip-Hop album of the new millennium. Debuting at the pole position on Billboard 200, GRODT sold almost 900K units its first week and is now ...

By Kevin Dolak Rapper and hip-hop world troll Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson took a moment to acknowledge the death of producer Irv Gotti this week by throwing one last bit of shade at the Murder ...

“It’s with great disappointment that we must announce Camellia Music & Arts Festival will not take ... Headliners included some of R&B and Hip-Hop’s biggest stars, like Kehlani, Big Boi ...

Hip-hop culture is among the youngest music genres, and the phase of the packaged, commercialized rapper is making a crack in its steady decline in relevance. Instead, the undeniable call and ...