Shake, shake, shake!” echoed like a chorus of empowerment Thursday as Dr. Hanan Hameen-Diagne led a packed room through the ...

How the artist's lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' could suppress a vital part of hip-hop culture. By Touré It’s been a year since the Pop Out, and the reverberations from the ...

“Love & Hip Hop Atlanta,” the hit reality TV series now 13 seasons strong, is set to return Tuesday, July 8, on MTV. The longest-running series in the “Love & Hip Hop” franchise has ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Rico Nasty, Samara Cyn, and Sexyy Red. With summer inching closer, rap and hip-hop are back outside — so to speak. New York ...

He was simply a genius and he built a massive, enchanting catalog that inspired so many, including the hip-hop nation. Sampling Sly was like a right of passage for many MCs in the late ’80s and ...

This summer, Chicago will experience a transformative cultural event when the IBUKUN Hip-Hop Art & Culture Fest launches on Saturday, July 26, 2025, at the Zhou B Art Center. Designed to engage ...

Sacha Jenkins, a pioneering hip-hop journalist, documentarian, musician, producer, and director known for chronicling Black culture through film, music, and media, died May 23, due to ...

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 ...

G-Eazy speaks with XXL in an exclusive interview about love and loss, telling the brutal truth with his Helium album, the current state of hip-hop and more.

the week's most popular r&b/hip-hop albums, based on multimetric consumption, blending traditional album sales, streaming-equivalent albums and track-equivalent albums, as compiled by luminate.

In an era where algorithms shape artistry and AI threatens authenticity, Panama City-bred and ATL-planted artist 4G is choosing a different route — one paved ...

FILE – Rappers Doug E. Fresh, left, and Slick Rick perform at Hip-Hop 50 Live, celebrating 50 years of hip-hop at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York on Aug. 11, 2023.