From Clipse to Tyler, the Creator to billy woods to Ovrkast to Bruiser Wolf, here are our favorite rap albums of 2025.

From platinum plaques to national honors, Missy Elliott’s journey proves that true hip hop legends define success on their own timeline, and she’s still setting the standard. This article was ...

How to encompass half a century of hip-hop? You start by acknowledging you can’t. Too many stars, too many songs, too many places, too many scandals: Hip-hop is an entire universe — a musical genre, ...

“Do you have my black purse?” Sexyy Red asks one of her team members as she makes her way in front of the camera. As her brazen track “Sexyy Red for President” blasts in the background, the breakout ...

We’re celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary this week. Wesley Morris traces the art form from its South Bronx origins to all-encompassing triumph. By Wesley Morris We’ve gathered here today to raise ...

On August 11, 1973, Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Her brother Clive, better known as DJ Kool Herc, was enlisted to DJ, and he used the occasion to ...

Sincere Jazmin was only 16 years old when he was shot and killed by another teen at a bus stop in Queens, N.Y. on March 26. The young man was an aspiring rap artist who went by the name, “Sdot Blokka.

The end of Ebro in the Morning reignited long-running rap feuds and exposed deeper tensions about radio, relevance, and control in hip-hop media ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...