Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

From comeback albums by established legends to more experimental offerings from the younger generation, 2025 was a marquee year for rap, streaming numbers be damned ...

Drake secured Apple Music’s most-streamed artist position for 2025, while Kendrick Lamar ‘s Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like Us” claimed the platform’s top rap song for the second consecutive year.

The Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, passed in 2022, restricts the use of rap lyrics in criminal prosecutions, aiming ...

Rap beef has always walked a fine line between competition and chaos, but in 2025, that line was blurrier than ever. Once a matter of high-stakes lyrical sparring, feuds like Kendrick Lamar and ...

SZA joins a growing list of artists speaking out after ICE used her music in immigration enforcement videos.

Two Stockton music artists are using their platforms to "give every child their voice back" while also calling for peace ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Awich and Tia Ray. Last weekend, F1 went hip-hop with superstars Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Travis Scott descending upon Sin City for the ...

In 1973, James Brown formed an unlikely friendship with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who he met when Sharpton was a young civil ...

The case traces back to a Sept. 7, 2024, shootout outside a liquor store near E Street and 105th Avenue that left 50-year-old ...

Clapback is pure Borderlands chaos in rap form. Featuring Shao Dow and everyone’s favorite loudmouthed bot Claptrap, this ...