The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Future, Lil Tecca, and MC Lyte.

It's tough to put Flau'jae Johnson in a box. She is a college basketball champion, a rapper and has built a personal brand ...

Industry heavyweights came together for a dazzling night of music, culture, and community, toasting with Tres Generaciones ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Ray Vaughn and Jdot Breezy After Wednesday night’s (Sept. 11) VMAs ceremony treated viewers to performances by Megan Thee ...

The rapper widens his lens this week with a new untitled track that dropped during the VMAs. Song of the Week: Kendrick Lamar ...

Music and gaming have long been intertwined. Hip-hop and Activision Blizzard's first-person shooter franchise, Call of Duty, ...

Trap music has become the hottest hip-hop subgenre ... attitudes of today's youth and has a place within hip-hop as an innovative new sound. Emo rap, short for emotional rap, is characterised ...

Here are some of hip-hop’s major “eras,” with a few songs that help exemplify its various subgenres. Creating a new sound In August 1973, DJ Kool Herc first extended a break while DJing his ...

Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The BET Hip Hop Awards will return in October. BET announced in a press release Monday that this year's ...

By Lindsay Zoladz Today’s playlist is a celebration of a tried-and-true method of discovering new-to-you music: identifying the samples in hip-hop songs. In his recently released book “Hip-Hop ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...