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 ...

Listen to a hip-hop workout playlist to help you achieve your exercise goals, with the hottest rap tracks for gym rats or New ...

Senegalese Canadian rapper Sarahmée's single "Ayoye" is packed with explosive energy and boisterous bars, as she melds ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Bossman Dlow, Snoop Dogg, and Will Smith. Seeing this week’s lineup might prompt some confusion about just what decade it ...

Varety picks the best songs of 2024, including Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, ...

When hip-hop was in its infancy decades ago, many people thought the genre would be a fad that wouldn't last longer than a few years. But over time, not only has hip-hop continued to grow, it's ...

Trap music has become the hottest hip-hop subgenre ... attitudes of today's youth and has a place within hip-hop as an innovative new sound. Emo rap, short for emotional rap, is characterised ...

The most ascendant genre in music spans mariachi’s guitar, reggaeton’s beats and hip-hop’s edge ... to music and often introduce him to new artists, who tend to blend sounds from different ...

Hip-hop is 50 years old, and over the last few decades the genre's created a long list of icons who've changed the face of music. It started in the Bronx, in New York, in August 1973, when funk ...

The new year is here. After 2024 produced some standout projects from some of the game's biggest artists, 2025 is setting up for a similar wave. Here's a look at the January 2025 new music releases.

The rapper revealed the news of the hip-hop duo’s new work during an interview at ... get the difference between taste and filler. This music is curated. This is a high taste-level piece of ...