From Central Cee and Little Simz to Miley Cyrus and Xzibit, we parse through the best music of 2025. We are halfway through ...

Tre Capital, Xzibit’s son, is featured on “End of the Day” for his first official placement on one of his dad’s albums and he ...

Tha Carter VI gives Lil Wayne his 11th No. 1 album on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, a streak that includes the previous five Carter projects. (The first installment, 2004’s Tha Carter debuted at ...

From drill to conscious rap, 2020 was packed with powerful releases. In this countdown, we rank the top 10 hip hop albums of ...

The 1990s were the golden age of rap music. And these are three perfect albums from that time period that encourage no skips.

Gilbert O'Sullivan has been a respected hit-maker since the 1970s – but less well-known is how his music forever reshaped the ...

Hip-hop has now reached a point where it dominates the mainstream more than pop music, but what is the biggest album in the genre measured by record sales?

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Smith’s return to hip-hop arrives at a crucial time for the genre. While contemporary rap often focuses on darker themes and ...

Before his bid to become mayor, Zohran Mamdani made music as Mr. Cardamom — and his old videos are going viral.

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Maxwell Elliot Dent, popularly known as Plaqueboymax, has announced that the deluxe version of his debut mixtape FIVEFOREVER will drop on June 20, 2025.