Top 10 best rap songs of 2025: the most influential, innovative and culturally impactful tracks shaping modern hip-hop.

We know the familiar locations—in the studio or the party, on the freeway or the corner—but rap’s visual art has been on the green for a while now. Rap has an interesting relationship with golf that ...

The celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary continues. The Bronx witnessed hip-hop’s inception in the ’70s, and the music world changed forever. This year the industry recognizes hip-hop’s evolution ...

It’s certainly no secret: Some of the most innovative rap music videos dropped in 2000s. To this day, artists are using work from those years as inspiration. Listen in as hosts Jahliel Thurman and ...

Rap music is quite different from rock music, but that didn't stop these famous rock stars from giving it a shot.

Cars and music have basically been two congruent puzzle pieces since the former was invented. Whether it's people enjoying listening to music in their cars or people making music about cars, it's ...

Clips of the pro-Trump rap song “Trump Trump Baby” featuring model Amber Rose were played at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday evening. Rose, who is known in part for her past relationship ...

You could argue that today’s music fans are spoiled beyond previous generations’ wildest imaginations. Back in the Nineties and even the early 2000s, the level of insight audiences had into their ...

Since 1973 — after DJ Kool Herc hosted a party in the Bronx, NY, that birthed the cultural phenomenon that is hip-hop — women in rap have historically been overlooked for their contributions to the ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appear in the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. The streak came to an end on the chart dated Oct. 25, 2025, following the fall of Kendrick Lamar and ...

But, one unique perspective on the matter came from Pharrell Williams in late April, who felt that AI advancements in music are just a part of human nature, and will be nearly impossible to stop.

The ’90s brought us timeless songs. Then you have the music videos that took everything up a notch. They represented storytelling at its finest. Listen in as hosts Chelsea LeMore-Monroe and Jahliel ...