From Kendrick's GNX domination to GloRilla's string of radio hits, which rappers have the strongest chances at next year's ceremony? By Kyle Denis From record-breaking tours to seismic comebacks, it’s ...

Could LL Cool J or Chance the Rapper be dark horses in this race? Billboard breaks down the potential nominees for best rap album at the 2026 Grammys. By Kyle Denis Clipse has earned just one single ...

President Donald Trump has just dropped his latest promotional video like it’s hot on Truth Social—soundtracked, inconceivably, to Dr. Dre’s 1999 hit “The Next Episode.” The short clip features an ...

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...

Walter Jones, the original Black Power Ranger, is chasing a new spotlight as he launches a rap career at 54 with Detroit grit and fresh beats. Walter Emanuel Jones is remembered by a generation as ...

0:49 Irish hip hop group ‘Kneecap’ banned from Canada for supporting Hamas, Hezbollah The Carney government is barring the Irish rap group Kneecap from entering Canada, saying the group has endorsed ...

Irish rap group Kneecap have been banned from entering Canada ahead of their tour of the country on the grounds of alleged “hate speech” and “glorification of terrorism.” “Recently the rap group ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. Money never sleeps and on “L.O.A.T.” Veeze is especially restless. The song half-inverts typical ...

Dr. A.D. Carson, the professor who defended a rap album as his Ph.D. dissertation, is redefining Hip-Hop as both scholarship and culture. Bars and Books! Hip-Hop has always been a culture of ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. In December 2024, Protect, a rapper from Buffalo, NY, released Ball Hog For Life, his second ...

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