Since the mid-1980s when hip-hop fully entered the popular culture, filmmakers have been including dope beats and great rhymes in the soundtracks of their movies, creating some of the best soundtracks ...

Production duo The Heatmakerz provide the nod factor on their new instrumental album The Anti-Social Experiment . Rsonist and ...

Hip-hop may have begun in the Bronx, but over the last 50 years Connecticut has developed its own vibrant artistic and ...

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Mad Skillz, often just called Skillz, is up for a 2025 Grammy. His new spoken word, The Seven Number Ones, chronicles the special moments in his life, from his parents’ meeting to his introduction to ...

Vince Staples gets deeply personal on Dark Times, his most introspective album since 2015’s Summertime ’06. With a slower, ...

In today’s roundup of musical history, we highlight the pint-sized performance artist Poppy, with musical recommendations and ...

Everyone knows that one of the most important aspects of a party is having great music that can get people on the dance floor. Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in ...

The year in hip-hop saw the reinvention of the diss track, with “Not Like Us” entering the musical canon as a bonafide hit. But the year wasn’t all rap beef; the rap world delivered a ...

Multiple media outlets reported that the man was the rapper Gaboro, whose songs have been streamed millions of times on Swedish music streaming ... named the country's hip-hop artist of the ...

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 ...

The fellas put a bow on 2024's year in music. By Michael Saponara 2024 is ... Anderson reunited to highlight some of their favorite rap and R&B projects of the year while breaking down some ...