From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

The best songs of 2025 delivered viral moments, genre shifts, and cultural heat. See which Hip Hop and R&B tracks defined ...

Sometimes it’s hard to say out loud how we’re really feeling, but the best songs are able to take all those emotions and set them to music. When it comes to romance, though, hip-hop love songs are ...

“Rapper’s Delight” will always be considered the song that introduced hip-hop to the masses. The Sugarhill Gang classic with its tongue-twisting opening – “I said a-hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to ...

A great hip-hop song isn't complete without a memorable hook that works its way into your brain. Many of these songs have hooks and choruses so catchy that you have it seems like you have no choice ...

Mr.Reaper has a knack for his wordplay that is so intriguing and the way he simply builds a catchy and lasting hook Mr.Reaper, from the Woodbridge, VA area, is the latest hip-hop sensation presenting ...

“The Message” is often credited with stretching what hip-hop could be — not just party music but also social commentary. Big Daddy Kane, Daddy-O of Stetsasonic and longtime hip-hop promoter Charlie ...

Pooh Shiesty enjoys an immediate welcome reception on Billboard 's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as he collects his first No.

In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...

For those who are Spotify loyalists and stream undiscovered R&B singers on the platform, undoubtedly, many are familiar with the hidden gem of an artist, Ballad. His honey-textured soulful vocals are ...

We saw Tyler, The Creator at Hinterland, rocked with Rick Ross in Waterloo and just missed Adamn Killa storming the quad at Iowa State University. Here were some of our favorite rap moments of 2025, ...