For a little under a decade now, Wegz has been one of Egypt’s most experimental rap stars in the MENA region. Undeniably, he’s been bringing Egyptian rap from a niche subculture into the mainstream, a ...

It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...

Billboard's recent rule change ends a three-decade-long streak for the genre Michael Owens/Getty Kendrick Lamar's hit song "Luther," featuring SZA, fell off the Billboard Hot 100 chart The list now ...

Could LL Cool J or Chance the Rapper be dark horses in this race? Billboard breaks down the potential nominees for best rap album at the 2026 Grammys. By Kyle Denis Clipse has earned just one single ...

One of the first albums I downloaded to my bulky iPod Classic as a teenager was Curren$y’s Pilot Talk. The song that brought me there was the smoker’s anthem ...

A family business’s rich legacy is more than just the value of its portfolio; various elements of its legacy contribute to the business’s performance and its ability to maintain an entrepreneurial ...

The 24-year-old Parisian, who rose from delivering pizzas to become one of the hottest new rap talents in just three years, denies any involvement in the death of the 23-year-old man, who was stabbed ...

French rapper MHD, who shot to fame with a catchy blend of west African music and southern US-style hip-hop, has been charged with murder over a brawl that led to a youth's death, in the latest case ...

Like a soap opera, you skip an episode and lose track of the story. For the past month, two of the most successful hip-hop artists of recent times—Kendrick Lamar and Drake—have been embroiled in a ...

At the start of this century, as MySpace and LiveJournal were remaking the social hierarchies of youth culture, a crushing wave surged into mainstream view. The aesthetic movement that history would ...

For the chart's 35th anniversary, we review all of the chart's year-end No. 1 winners. By Trevor Anderson Since Billboard first began its national survey of song sales in the 1940s, the ever-changing ...