With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

By 1984, hip-hop had evolved from its grassroots beginnings in the Bronx into a cultural movement on the cusp of mainstream recognition. Run-DMC’s self-titled debut album releas ...

Tia Young— also known as Boss Tootie— rap career started with singing nursery rhymes at the age six. The now 11-year-old ...

Hip-hop is well-represented in the 2024 Uproxx Critics Poll, in a year defined as much by conflict as anything else. This is the 7th annual version of the poll, in which nearly 300 music critics from ...

Today’s selection features a few indie stalwarts returning with new albums ( Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Japanese Breakfast ) ...

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

In the 7th grade after listening to Kanye West’s album, “The College Dropout,” Gainesville native Sean Momberger began ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Abir and Naika ... Last week (Jan. 23), the Compton rapper and Apple Music released a new teaser for his upcoming halftime ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Nick Cave nominates the "amazing work of art" that he'd like played to soundtrack his passing into the afterlife ...

This is the first time I am doing a ‘proper’ review of a Black Sherif song. It’s not because his previous songs were not good ...

The Atlanta DJ and rapper, whose real name is Anthony Platt, signed to the esteemed indie label Big Oomp Records in 2000. His 2006 debut album “Beat’n Down Yo Block” reached ...