Kendrick Lamar ’s GNX has been crowned the most-streamed rap album on Spotify in 2025.

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

Dahlak Brathwaite’s “Try/Step/Trip,” part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the ...

China’s decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots ...

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Billboard Korea compiled the K-Pop Artist 100 in partnership with Billboard based on each artist's achievements from October ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te urged closer cooperation between Taipei and Tokyo. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall found the government failed to prove that Karl Jordan Jr.'s role in the 2002 killing ...

The Oscar nominee appears to rap alongside the hip-hop artist in a new video. But are the two one and the same?