The 2025 nominees for the Songwriters Hall of Fame have been announced, and hip-hop is well represented thanks to nominations ...

Some of the album’s highlights include “Dope Man”, *8 Ball” and the classic “Boyz-N-The-Hood” anthem, which has been sampled ...

He’s the front man of the Evaporators—a punk-rock institution from his native Vancouver—and his media operation is contained exclusively to a YouTube channel he runs all by himself, to the tune of ...

Hip-hop’s roots in political expression began in the 1980’s with groups like Public Enemy with "Fight the Power" and NWA. Artists like these have historically used their lyrics to call ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, N.W.A. and Alanis Morissette are among ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cordae, GloRilla, and Lil Durk. After a couple of weeks without very many new rap albums, the floodgates appear to have ...

Tribe was inducted after getting passed on the ballot in 2022 and 2023, now joining a slowly growing list of rap legends in the hall, including Jay-Z, Eminem, Public Enemy, and NWA. Their ...

Take hip-hop, for example. The genre has been around since at least the '70s, so it's safe to assume that everyone has some familiarity with rap and its intricacies. However, it has such a storied ...

Manager for Communication and Customer Service at the National Works Agency (NWA), Stephen Shaw, says the entity has not received any reports of significant road damage caused by heavy rains and ...

Hip-hop's biggest night was taped at Drai's Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada and airs at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 15 Jade Gomez is a Digital Music Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has been ...

Fat Joe returned as host of this year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards, where Megan Thee Stallion, Kendrick Lamar, and Drake dominated the nominations. Kendrick Lamar, capping off a historic year ...