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Like a soap opera, you skip an episode and lose track of the story. For the past month, two of the most successful hip-hop artists of recent times—Kendrick Lamar and Drake—have been embroiled in a ...

Hey, young world. Here's a story about one measure of the distance hip-hop has traveled in its 50 years. Once upon a time, not long ago, to paraphrase a great rap storyteller, an 11-year-old in Queens ...

The most memorable moment in rap of 2024 isn’t an album, it’s the multi-song rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that culminated in the release of the year’s most world-conquering rap song, ...

The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements. Too Short onstage in Washington State in July.Credit...Abdi Ibrahim for The New York Times Supported by By Tom ...

We try to stick to one guiding principle when making our best rap verses of the year lists: one verse per rapper. This year was different. Two thousand and twenty-four featured the greatest rap battle ...

If you listen to rap music, or if you watch professional basketball, you know that one of the core experiences associated with both is hating. Not in a malicious sense, of course — more a petty one.

Battle rap is an art form and a sport, as well as an industry that has been slowly growing over the last decade. While there are proving grounds all over the country, New York is its epicenter. By Ben ...

It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...

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.

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 rap tours of 2025, featuring Travis Scott, Wu-Tang Clan and more. By Eric Frankenberg Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore charts earlier in December ...