The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Nav, Will Smith, and Lil Durk.

With Fresh Picks , Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from JT’s summer-ready banger to Nettspend and Xaviersobased’s new link-up. Be ...

Hip Hop has long been a male-dominated industry, where women have had to fight twice as hard for recognition—whether on the ...

The FADER's Rap Column rounds up the best rap songs of March 2025, from Playboi Carti to JT to Chuckyy and many more.

Ye has had multiple targets in his rants on X (formerly Twitter), but there is always room for more. The 47-year-old opened ...

Hip hop has been an incredibly influential way of storytelling and social commentary through music, leading the genre to be the epicenter of the most influential musical artists in the history of hip ...

Explore how 20 influential female rappers shaped hip-hop's evolution with distinct voices, innovative flows and powerful ...

Three years after the slap seen and heard around the world, the Oscar winner is performing in Scarborough and releasing an ...

Bishop Brigante, a hip-hop musician and battle rap legend from Toronto, lost his fight with colorectal cancer and died at the ...

Will Smith’s new album, 'Based on a True Story', marks his return to hip-hop, but genre may not have room for legacy acts or ...

This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the stellar performance of Carti's second full-length of the 2020s, which seems ...

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 ...