In celebration of Valentine's Day and Black History Month, Billboard looks back at the genre's rich romantic legacy.
Apple Music commissioned Mannie Fresh, Legatron Prime, DJ Poppa and KLC the Drum Major to make mixes ahead of Super Bowl LIX.
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 ...
Tupac Shakur, Hip Hop Immortal..... Poet and playwright Al Letson recalls the life of Tupac Shakur.
The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Busta Rhymes, Central Cee, and Mac Miller. Here we are, folks: The first Best New Hip-Hop column of 2025. Pardon the ...
The roots of hip-hop and house music both lie in the seismic shifts of the late 1970s, a period of sociopolitical unrest and electronic experimentation that redefined the possibilities of sound. For ...
Irv Gotti, the boisterous, smiley music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists, ...
But it was only in 1989 that an award category for “best rap performance” started recognizing hip-hop’s contribution to U.S. music, and house had to wait another decade, with the ...