The producer has reached the top of the charts and won Grammys. As he embarks on the next phase of his career, he’s looking ...

Philly’s swiss army knife, Lihtz, premieres his newest song, “Savage Ways,” on Hip-Hop Wired. Don’t let the sheisty mask fool you, Lihtz has a balance of hard-hitting lyrics and some anthems for the ...

The Black Eyed Peas, whose music spans hip hop to soul to pop-rap, is topping the charts with the former quartet's first album in two years, featuring Latin pop artists such as Shakira.

Missy Elliott has *a lot* of classic songs, but one of them has been named the greatest hit of the century. On Wednesday, ...

When hip-hop was in its early stages, most people criticized the genre as being a fad. Yet, here we are over 50 years since its inception, and it's one of the most popular genres among fans.

Hip-hop is a multi-billion-dollar industry and the world’s most popular music genre. Originating in the South Bronx in the 1970s by African American and Latino communities in response to industrial ...

Hug your loved ones. Clear that bucket list. Shoot that shot. As if we needed any more signs that imminent doom is on the horizon, Jay Electronica, music’s foremost harbinger of societal collapse, has ...

To hear some tell it, Vlad, AK, and Adam22 are the holy trinity of gutter media. Rap fans know the criticism, and much of it checks: these three built careers trafficking off the seedier corners of ...

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, ...

Listening to the soundtrack of atmospheric soulslike Lies of P when it was released, I realised something—wait a second, I know a lot of these songs. Why do I know a lot of these songs? The game just ...

Expect to see selections from the established stars, the next wave of new talent, the up-and-comers and everyone else in between. If the song is fire enough to beat the competition, it'll take one of ...

Drake is Billboard’s No. 1 R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the 21st Century He had 30 No. 1 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and 15 No. 1 albums Drake also leads with the most top 10 hits and total chart ...