With the 2026 Grammy eligibility period ending this Saturday (Aug. 30), some of hip-hop's and R&B's buzziest acts raced to ...

Drake dominates the competition as the No. 1 R&B/hip-hop act on Billboard ’s recap of the first 25 years of the quarter-century, ruling Billboard ’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century chart.

Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century recap reflects performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. The category ranks the best-performing acts in that span ...

Educators are using rap and hip-hop as powerful tools for culturally responsive teaching, engaging students in ways that feel ...

While hip-hop is continuously in a state of innovation, early on its ear for music was attached to the sounds its earliest listeners enjoyed partying to.

Dr. A.D. Carson, the professor who defended a rap album as his Ph.D. dissertation, is redefining Hip-Hop as both scholarship ...

Discover nine more trailblazing Black music executives — from Cathy Hughes to JAY-Z — who helped shape Hip Hop’s rise. Read ...

As part of BMI’s R&B and Hip-Hop Awards—which will be presented during a invitation-only ceremony in Los Angeles on Aug.

Rapper and singer Playboi Carti recently performed in his hometown of Atlanta. On August 22, X account Kurrco shared a clip ...

As music critic Nelson George wrote, the song was a springboard, "heralding the 808 as the foundation of hip-hop's future and Run-D.M.C. as the genre's new kings." ...

Mixing hip-hop and house music, lifting liberally from James Brown background singer Lyn Collins’ 1971 song “Think About It,” Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s 1988 smash was also an ode to ...