Ye - formerly Kanye West - blasted J. Cole and his music during another X rant on Tuesday night (April 1), but it didn't seem ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Nav, Will Smith, and Lil Durk.

From the golden age of rap to present day, look at (and listen to) some of the most iconic funk samples ever used in hip-hop, and watch WE WANT THE FUNK! on PBS.

April’s looking like a hot month in music, and Hip-Hop Wired’s got the lowdown on the artists you gotta have on your radar ...

Hip Hop has long been a male-dominated industry, where women have had to fight twice as hard for recognition—whether on the ...

Bishop Brigante, a hip-hop musician and battle rap legend from Toronto, lost his fight with colorectal cancer and died at the ...

Cymande’s influence on hip-hop culture is huge. But with new album Renascence, the spotlight returns to the funk institution, ...

Women only really emerged in Tunisia’s male-dominated rap scene with the revolution in 2011. And they’re rapping about much ...

A Massachusetts teenager killed in a double stabbing in March was remembered by his family for aspiring to read the whole ...

So before we get to the month’s best rap songs, let’s talk about some of the best hip-hop music videos of March 2025. This month I’ve been enjoying: • the kaleidoscopic cityscapes and ...

A half-decade has passed since the last Black Violin album, "Give Thanks," dropped. But the unique violin and viola playing ...

This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the stellar performance of Carti's second full-length of the 2020s, which seems ...