Zayvion Hamiel, also known as ZayMoney, sits at a DJ booth surrounded by speakers nearly as big as he is. He queues up a ...

The best songs of the week include new music from Kelela, Lip Critic, Otoboke Beaver, Dari Bay, Rob Milton, and more.

Raye takes home the best video award, while Grahams wins the TV/film category. 18-year-old DC3 takes home two awards for ...

Rap music was invented in the early 1970s. According to lore, the musical style was first on display at a party in the fall—family and friends gathering around the turntables to mark the important ...

A hit song from one of the most successful artists of all time has landed in a surprising place on a music ranking. Even though it was embraced by the masses, Eminem's "Rap God" was named the "worst ...

Alexis Dean Jr., (a.k.a. L.E.X.) performs at John F Kennedy Elementary School. (Photo by Omar Waheed) Musician, author and educator Alexis Dean Jr., known as L.E.X., toured the Madison Metropolitan ...

NBA player and team drops have been a part of hip-hop lyrics for more than 50 years. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; photos: Leon Bennett, Ezra Shaw, George De Sota, Emilee Chin / Getty ...

On this date in 1991, New Orleans rap icon Percy “Master P” Miller stepped into the game with his debut album Get Away Clean, released through his independently founded No Limit Records. The project ...

A wannabe rapper was busted for a long-unsolved acid attack that left a Long Island college student blind in one eye – after authorities used the hip-hop half-wit’s cringey song lyrics to track him ...

**For clarity, rap and hip-hop are used interchangeably throughout the article, as both represent the same space in music charts.** For the first time in over 35 years, rap vanished from the Billboard ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...