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The album not only hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 but is now widely recognized as the best ... songs became the perfect release. Today, in many ways, rage has evolved into the sound of underground ...

So before we get to the month’s best rap songs, let’s talk about some of ... Even in this more sedate niche of the drill subgenre, Chuckyy’s ear for beats stands out for how subtle the ...

A lot of the hip-hop that's been catching my ear this month has been accordingly ... ballad “Tender” was one of the most romantic rap songs of February 2025, alongside “wolf” by skaiwater ...

To help curate yours, we've collected the best Christmas songs of all time to add to this ... John Ed Sheeran and Elton John team up for this ear-worm of a duet that instantly became a classic ...

But the best hip ... of gangster rap, with “Fuck Tha Police” – which took aim at police brutality in Los Angeles – resounding to this day as one of the greatest protest songs ever written.

The best shoegaze in 2024 didn’t conform ... 22-song tape is the shoegaze equivalent to Doris’ lo-fi bedroom-rap opus, Ultimate Love Songs Collection — brittle, silly, spontaneous, yet ...

The new album is infused with the hustler mentality synonymous with Houston rap. "Woke up a Millionaire ... the show (he has the best verse on both of those songs). He is consistently in his ...

Near the end of each year, music people scribble out lists of their favorite songs, then take a few steps ... This is easily the best song Sabrina Carpenter dropped on civilization this summer ...

(In order to spread the wealth, I’m only including songs that aren’t on albums that made my best of the year list.) Cash Cobain’s sexy take on drill rap is ... caught my ear in 2024, I ...

Chappell Roan rocketed from cult singer-songwriter to megapopstar at mach speed, but she couldn’t have done it if her songs weren’t great fuel. Here, Roan fills every crevice of Dan Nigro’s ...

From Central Cee’s soon-to-be global takeover to Ice Spice’s down-to-earth anthems and the ascendent Brooklyn drill trio 41’s infectious chemistry, here are the rap songs we loved in 2023.