A rising drill rapper whose music celebrated gang violence has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for leading a ...

Contextualizing R&B's mainstream comeback this year, from it's indie and queer sectors to the Hot 100 domination of Leon Thomas and Kehlani.

All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

Egyptian Lover's Roland TR-808 drum machine is customized with hieroglyphics and themed patterns Credit: Jay Godwin / LBJ Presidential Library Hip-hop is officially middle-aged, but its mortality is ...

Hip Hop Mixtape features a new custom environment with electrifying light shows. This music pack includes these tracks: 2Pac – All Eyez On Me (feat. Big Syke) Nicki Minaj – Anaconda Snoop Dogg – Gin ...

Curtis Jackson III was born in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1975. In the late ’90s, he began his rap career as 50 Cent, and made friends and enemies all over Queens, recording with Run-DMC’s Jam ...

On this day in 2002, 50 Cent released his breakthrough mixtape Guess Who’s Back?, marking a pivotal moment in his career and setting the stage for his rise to global recognition. Released through the ...

The Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit takes visitors on an educational journey through several key themes: origin, innovation, sounds of hip-hop, fashion, regionalism, entrepreneurialism, media, ...

Items from some of hip hop's most influential artists are now on display in Tulsa. Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit is at the Woody Guthrie Center through September 7. It covers the genre's impact ...

T.W.I.N. is an Athens-based musician known for her unique blend of R&B and hip hop. Her latest mixtape, "Slight Detour," explores the emotional journey after a breakup. T.W.I.N. utilizes the mobile ...

New Jersey’s DJ Juice, a hip-hop mixtape pioneer, has died. SiriusXM and LL Cool J’s Rock the Bells Radio reports that Juice, born Brian Short, was 54. Starting in the ’90s, the award-winning DJ was ...