"Black America has impacted and developed nearly every musical genre in our country, and hip-hop/rap music is one of the greatest examples of this." ...

From drill to conscious rap, 2020 was packed with powerful releases. In this countdown, we rank the top 10 hip hop albums of the year—including Pop Smoke’s iconic Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon ...

He won the American Music Award for favorite rap/hip hop artist in 1999. ... The 2020 Hip Hop Awards will air on Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. EST . To catch all the excitement of the 2020 Hip Hop Awards, ...

Kendrick Lamar adds to his collection of Billboard chart records not once, but twice this week as his latest studio album GNX ...

2020s hip-hop and rap playlist, from Mano Sundaresan and Millan Verma "Ice Age + Tales of the Hood" by 454. Load YouTube video "Na Na Na" by Lay Bankz. Load YouTube video "Shmackin Town" by AYOOLii.

From 2020 to 2023, hip-hop appeared on the Billboard 200 almost half the time (47%), but the Grammys has only ever nominated hip-hop albums 28% of the time—a 19% gap.

Hip-hop is yet to have a number one album in 2023, and new rap albums are struggling to compete both with other genres and older rap records. ... The number did rebound to 12 albums in 2020, ...

Rap industry leaders say hip-hop should not be the ... that he had grown up with,” he said of the 26-year-old rapper who was fatally shot outside an Atlanta night club in 2020. “But who he ...

Hip-hop was born in August of 1973 at a back-to-school party in the Bronx borough of New York City. DJ Kool Herc began ...

Released in 1983, "Style Wars" — called the "defining documentary of early hip-hop culture" by Pitchfork in 2020 — follows hip-hop from its earliest years to its growth in the 1970s and '80s ...

In this week's Rap Column, The FADER's Nadine Smith explores what the rise of Jelly Roll says about country music's relationship with hip-hop. Music; ... With 2020’s heart-broken ballad ...