San Bernardino band Fuerza Regida has broken records on the Billboard charts and is up for its first Grammy in 2026 — but ...

Vets and newbies flexed their best bars in 2025. After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii ...

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 ...

The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are in and the Best Rap Album category is stacked this year. Doechii was presented the award by Cardi B, who won the Best Rap Album ...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America. Last week's Billboard Hot 100 marked the end of a remarkable 35-year streak, ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

Generative artificial intelligence is seeping deeper into our cultural fabric by the day. In just two years, AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti have evolved from poorly developed nightmare fuel ...

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

“Barrio Triste” follows four lawless young men in Medellín, Colombia in the ’90s who steal a television camera and document robberies, crime and the unrelenting pace of street violence. Stillz, the ...