Hip Hop and R&B artists have had a long, complex history with the Grammy Award for Best New Artist category. The list showcases genre-defining talent, from breakthrough stars to overlooked icons. The ...

Music's most prestigious night is here. With over $420,000 already traded on Kalshi, hip-hop fans aren't just debating the Best Rap Album race, they're staking real money on the outcome. The category ...

The Swamp Princess is officially a Grammy winner. Doechii took home the award for Best Rap Album at the 2025 Grammys, for her mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. In her acceptance speech, the ...

The prodigious producer was up for a Best Rap Album trophy for his collaboration with Common, “The Auditorium Vol. 1,” and Best Rap Performance for “When the Sun Shines Again” featuring Posdnuos. On ...

Because the hip-hop genre has grown over the past three decades into a tremendous force in American and international popular culture, it can be easy to forget how relatively young it is, originating ...

In 1894, “The Little Lost Child” went “platinum” off sheet music sales in what might be considered the first successful music video marketing campaign. Innovations in aurafarming have taken things to ...

The '80s was hip-hop's Wild West. These 10 essential Golden Era albums defined the genre and still hit like a brick today.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from J. Cole, Rico Nasty, and Doechii. I don’t know what was going on for the past seven days, but this week’s column is a doozy. To ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cathy Applefeld Olson is a journalist and founder of Hollywood & Mind At the podium Doechii — the third woman to win a Best Rap ...

Billboard‘s recent rule changes sparked a concerned discussion after they resulted in a two-week absence of rap music in the Hot 100 chart’s top 40 for the first time in almost three decades. “Is ...

After the rocker's surprise performance with Clipse onstage at Coachella, we're looking at some of his greatest hip-hop collabs of all time!