One of California’s most underperforming school districts is spending nearly $300,000 teaching kids to rap, raising the alarm among DEI watchdogs. The Merced City School District in the Central Valley ...

Bowing out after six consecutive US No 1 albums, Cole references rap greats and even conjures a convo between Biggie and 2Pac – but the lens rarely strays from himself J Cole released his debut ...

Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency proceedings, according to documentation reported by Create Digital Music. According to that report, a preliminary insolvency administrator has been ...

**For clarity, rap and hip-hop are used interchangeably throughout the article, as both represent the same space in music charts.** Additionally, in mid-September 2025, only four hip-hop songs were on ...

Kendrick Lamar has secured another major milestone as GNX is officially the most-streamed rap album on Spotify in 2025. The project amassed 2.98 billion streams, outperforming the next-closest release ...

The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” passed in 2025, made many changes to federal student loan ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Vets and newbies flexed their best bars in 2025. After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii ...

Billboard crowns Cardi B #1 on their hottest female rap artists of 2025 list beating out a number of other acts. Cardi B‘s dominance of Billboard’s new female rap ranking proves women now control ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

As you might be able to tell, I’ve long thought that most popular emo rap was bad, but the one tape for which I still have a soft spot is Lil Peep’s Crybaby. Released in 2016, Peep, like Gates, ...