It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...
The Hip-Hop world lost a true pioneer when Gene “Groove” Allen passed away in February 2025. As a key member of Groove B. Chill, Allen helped bridge the gap between Hip-Hop’s golden era and mainstream ...
Hip-Hop Wired approached the compiling of this list of top Hip-Hop releases in the same fashion we approach our CRT FRSH ...
Counting down some personal favorites, including a major rap tour, the sublime bridge in a breakup song and Timothée Chalamet ...
BTS frontman RM nearly soars to No. 1 on Billboard's Rap Digital Song Sales chart, but "Nuts" is forced to settle for second ...
Hip-Hop/R&B accounted for 30.7% of all streams across platforms, making it by far the most dominant genre in 2024. This isn’t ...
The best songs of 2025 delivered viral moments, genre shifts, and cultural heat. See which Hip Hop and R&B tracks defined ...
That’s the case with albums from Lamar and Clipse, as well as J.I.D’s God Does Like Ugly. (J.I.D has long been a respected lyricist too.) Markman is also impressed with the growth that Tyler, the ...
Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...
Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...
In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...