While genres like J-Pop, city pop and hardcore punk get all the attention, Japanese rap is a hidden gem. It might be fast and ...

BILLIONAIRE Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg has launched his music career with a “cringe” rap song recorded for his wife.

In the 1990s and 2000s, it was common to hear ladies singing the hooks (or choruses) on rap songs. Whether big names like ...

Wild Wild Women, based in Mumbai is India's first all-female hip-hop band. The collective challenges norms and empowers women through music and inclusivity.

Tyler, The Creator completes a rare self-replacement at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as "Sticky," ...

From the Bronx to the world, hip-hop's evolved beyond music to a tool for healing. Could hip-hop be the therapy we need to ...

The disguise was initially adopted to protect his day job teaching at a secondary school — a post that came to an end after he bared his buttocks during a Kneecap gig with the words “Brits” and “Out” ...

Between the Election Day (Nov. 5) and the 2025 Grammy nominations reveal (Nov. 8), the week ahead promises to be one of the ...

If there’s one thing that’s for certain about the Atlanta-born rap duo Outkast, it’s they have fans from all over and all walks of life. The group was able to somehow bridge authenticity ...

Ask 10 hip-hop ... to be a rap fan in a given year? To answer that, we used three key criteria. The most heavily weighted was the music itself, considering both the best albums and songs released ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...