It turns out the two genres share a long history, and in today's music landscape, country artists have strategic reasons to embrace hip-hop sounds and aesthetics. Country's drift toward hip-hop ...

2024 has been filled with hip-hop highlights. While the culture experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has also been shaken multiple times due to the deaths of members of the hip-hop ...

PBS spoke with Executive Producers Chuck D and Lorrie Boula, and Series Director Yemi Bamiro, about the evolution of Hip Hop, its influence on popular culture, the next generation, and more.

Explore hip-hop and rap-related collections from across the Smithsonian that offer perspective on the African American experience and its impact on American culture. Visit an online experience on the ...

2024 has been a big year in hip-hop, and thanks in part to the return of some of hip-hop's biggest names, the sales numbers are turning up. Tyler, The Creator's Chromakopia album produced big ...

The week’s most popular songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions based on monitored airplay compiled by Luminate. Audience totals are derived, in part, using certain Nielsen Audio ...

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 ...

In a year-long Hirshhorn show squirming with energy, the famous Brazilian twins replace discernment with populist exuberance.

It hadn’t always been that way. In the early- to mid-1990s, hip hop had been dominated by bi-coastal artists and aesthetics. Atlanta rappers rhymed outside the national spotlight. That began to ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Megan Thee Stallion, Tyler The Creator, and Leikeli47. What a busy week! While the year might be wrapping up soon ...