For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

The mayoral candidate is a known K. Dot fan. By Mackenzie Cummings-Grady Zohran Mamdani is a known Kendrick Lamar fan, and showed his support for the rapper over Halloween weekend. With New York ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

On Nov. 3, Positive K exploded onto the rap scene with his debut album, while Mary J. Blige soared the Billboard charts. Other music artists received top accolades for ...

Trained by professionals, he learned how to sing and dance with skill ... Formed by three members of a legendary boy band, ...