The latest Billboard Hot 100 chart is unlike any other one in recent memory. According to the outlet, for the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the chart’s Top 40. The update comes as ...

Kendrick Lamar won Best Rap Album for GNX at the 2026 Grammy Awards on Sunday night, extending his remarkable Grammy dominance just one year after sweeping Music's Biggest Night with "Not Like Us." ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

Image Courtesy of Pitchfork By Joey BrascoThe year of 2026 seems to be one where long-awaited rap albums finally materialize. Famed rapper J. Cole has been teasing his final record, The Fall-Off, ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

Cardi B’s sophomore album, AM I THE DRAMA?, continues to dominate the charts and conversation, officially breaking the record for the most weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 for a female rap ...