If a rap single hasn’t gone number one on the Billboard Hot 100, does that mean the genre is in decline? “I think that now the genre is as interesting as ever because of how quickly it's mutating,” ...

Stacker explores the rich legacy of hip-hop by highlighting the journey of 25 pioneering icons. - Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect // Getty Images Stacker explores the rich legacy of hip-hop by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 2012, Complex published a list of “Things Rap Fans Think But Won’t Say.” That piece mixed banal opinions (“If you don’t ...

Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that doubles as a scouting report. Each month, SPIN selects a new starting five, a group of rappers who could be Rookie of the Year candidates turned Hall-of-Famers ...

So far this year, during hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, massive tributes at shows like the MTV Awards and the Grammys highlighted the rappers from the past and present who’ve made hip-hop a ...

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...

But he began to flirt with R&B and hip-hop influences on 2018’s Experiment and 2020’s Mixtape Vol. 1 EP. On the biggest hit from the latter, Brown sings about breakups with Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee and ...

As rap stops appearing in global charts, fans wonder if rap is on the decline in it's prominence in the current culture.

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Today, entertainment is political. Despite this trend, however, political conviction continues to elicit resolute objection: people continue to dislike the invasive nature of today’s politics, and ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...