Explore 19 Hip Hop and R&B artists who earned Best New Artist Grammy nominations, from Lauryn Hill to Doechii. See part one of the list here.

All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you were looking for good hip-hop music, 2025 was one of the best years to be a ...

There has been a lot of talk about Hip-hop since it dropped from the top of the charts over the past few years. Country music ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Doechii, Roddy Ricch, and Smino. Actually, this week in hip-hop is actually going to be two weeks, due to the holiday that just ...

Billboard crowns Cardi B #1 on their hottest female rap artists of 2025 list beating out a number of other acts.

Good music and a good drink often go hand in hand, but do we ever really stop to appreciate the pairing? We do now, because 2025 has been a banner year for rap music, but it’s also quietly been an ...

January 2025 kicked off with a major ice storm across the U.S. and Canada dumping more than a foot of snow across multiple states and provinces. And the frost isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, with ...

Hip Hop was born in the Bronx, and from that moment on, New York City has been at the heart of the culture. From the early pioneers who laid the foundation to modern-day legends redefining the genre, ...

From afar, it may seem ShrapKnel is a new name in the East Coast underground. But the duo of PremRock and Curly Castro released their self-titled debut in 2020 on Backwoodz Studioz, the New York rap ...

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 ...