Lamar led nominations for this year’s awards show, with nine total. He took home the rap album award for “GNX” early in the evening, surpassing the record previously held by Jay-Z, who has 25 wins.

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 ...

As the year comes to an end, we are wading deep into list season. Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay tribute to a ...

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 ...

H. Rap Brown, a militant Black Power leader of the 1960s who later converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamil Al-Amin, has died. He was 82. Al-Amin died at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., his ...

Kool G Rap says there’s a “high probability” he’ll collaborate with Nas for the next “Legend Has It” installment! Kool G Rap just dropped a gem and we are all going crazy over it. Hip-Hop heads are ...

The Recording Academy has officially announced the nominees for Best Rap Album at the 2025 GRAMMY Awards, delivering one of the most competitive lineups in recent memory. This year features multiple ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

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 ...

For the first time since February 1990 — over 35 years — the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 contained zero rap songs on the chart dated October 25, 2025 The removal of Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “luther,” ...

For the first time since 1990, there are no rap songs in the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Kendrick Lamar and SZA's hit "luther," which spent 13 weeks at No. 1, left this week's most recent ...

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...