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 ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Ab-Soul, Ferg, and Cordae. The past few weeks have featured a glut of new hip-hop, so even though this week slows things down ...

Some believe that the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and ...

Kobe Bryant’s impact went far beyond the basketball court, as evidenced by his many appearances in hip-hop lyrics.

On this day in Hip-Hop history, Brooklyn’s own Jay-Z released he would-be retirement album The Black Album. Although there ...

Have a listen to the best of this week's new releases, selected by Listener staff.

Natalie Lu's foggy, distortion-churning single “Your Face” blew up on TikTok. It landed her a major-label deal with ...

Hip-hop and rap artist Young Blood Neet (YB) soared in the local music scene two years ago when his single, Dem Dayz, took ...

“Get Low” was originally released in 2002, the third single from Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz’s album Kings of Crunk. Zuck and T-Pain’s version is a much slower reimagining of the song which ...

Blending an irresistible mix of funk, Latin, rock, soul and jazz, the legendary band WAR returns to the Maui Arts & Cultural ...

Nicki Minaj joins the late, great Juice WRLD on his new single “AGATS2 (Insecure)” from his forthcoming album The Party Never Ends, and the single is a quick bestseller.

Brother Ali has been a fixture on the underground rap scene for decades now. Ali is currently based in Istanbul, but he came ...