Rap music made headlines for losing its Billboard chart dominance, but it's being celebrated more than ever at the 2026 ...

Pop ruled as the most common primary genre over hip-hop in the Hot 100's top 10 throughout 2025, according to Hit Songs Deconstructed's analysis.

Tomorrow, Aug. 11, the hip-hop world will celebrate 50 years of rap music, five decades removed from DJ Kool Herc’s 1973 “Back To School Jam” in the South Bronx that helped to christen the genre.

Hip-hop has come a long way since DJ Kool Herc started isolating funk-record instrumental breaks to make Bronx dance parties even more danceable. Along the way, it traveled to all corners of America, ...

Nearly 15 years after the Grammys started handing out trophies to rappers, these are three rap Grammy Award winners who took ...

Aug. 11, 1973, is considered the birth of hip-hop. On this day, DJ Kool Herc threw a “Back-to-School Jam” at his apartment building, located at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx. Herc set the atmosphere ...

Lil Uzi Vert and their new album Pink Tape could finally bring hip-hop its first Billboard Number One album of 2023 next week — a rare delay for the genre, which has gone more than half the year ...

Many of the hip-hop’s most lauded works this year feature religious themes—themes that arguably helped spark a renewal of hip ...

(WHNT) — Hip-hop has been a staple in many music lovers’ childhoods. The genre itself has many branches and subgenres, including rap and R&B. August 11, 2023, marks 50 years of hip-hop, which has ...

NEW YORK - This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a cultural movement that began in New York City and quickly spread worldwide. Lisa Evers, a reporter for FOX 5 New York and a long-time ...

Christian rap star Lecrae sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to talk about the growing genre of faith-based hip hop, how the it has evolved throughout the years, what led him to create the first ...