With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

Rapsody’s catalogue is fierce. See a few of her tracks that you should know if you want to be up on game in Hip Hop here.

Hip-hop meets the symphony as artists move from studio to concert hall, reshaping how rap sounds in elevated spaces.

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs. “No rap songs appear in the top 40 on the Hot 100 for the first time since ...

Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these celebratory ...

As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending a streak that's lasted for over 35 years. By Andrew Unterberger With ...

Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these songs missing from the Top 40? It's ...complicated.

For the first time since February 1990 — over 35 years — the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 contained zero rap songs on the chart dated October 25, 2025 The removal of Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “luther,” ...

The comments come on his Haunted by Fame project, which arrived on Halloween. By Michael Saponara Offset unleashed his surprise Haunted by Fame project on Friday (Oct. 31), which appears to find him ...

Its eclecticism is one of the many reasons why his music is connecting. The album peaked at No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it’s investigating a new sexual battery allegation against hip-hop mogul ...