I’d come to watch precisely because no one of Roan’s stature had been slated to play what have been, to date, the American ...

A new wave of Christian artists from various backgrounds is drawing young audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B.

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It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

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 ...

As the year comes to an end, we are wading deep into list season. Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay tribute to a ...

Kendrick Lamar has added another accolade to an already amazing year. Apple Music announced that “Not Like Us” is the most-streamed rap song on the platform in 2025. Although the record dropped on May ...

Rap beef has always walked a fine line between competition and chaos, but in 2025, that line was blurrier than ever. Once a matter of high-stakes lyrical sparring, feuds like Kendrick Lamar and ...

“So, when did you fall in love with Hip Hop?” is a question that Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), a Hip Hop journalist, poses at the very beginning of the 2002 film, Brown Sugar. And, consequently, everyone ...

Christian Takes the Gun Parrish, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation, says he grew up in a “hip-hop desert,” on his tribe’s south-central Montana reservation south of Billings. But in the late ...