British singer-songwriter James Blake has announced that his seventh solo album and his first as a fully independent artist, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hip Hop in 2025 didn’t move in a straight line — it expanded, paused, reflected, and, in many cases, recalibrated. Rather than ...

Released in late 2024, XG’s second EP, “Awe,” earned a first entry on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart. Shortly after, ...

NBA star Kyrie Irving spent $11,001 for LaRussell's new album as the rapper aims to sell 100,000 copies independently. On Jan. 1, Bay Area rapper announced he was selling his new album, Something's in ...

This year’s Best Rap Album race should come down to lyrical titans Kendrick Lamar and Clipse, even if the other three nominees are all worthy in their own right. According to Genius VP of Music and ...

Yeat names his GOATs in a rare interview! Find out his all-time greats for SoundCloud rappers, Young Thug songs, ad-libs, sneakers, and more. Trump wins major court ruling on National Guard America’s ...

Kyrie Irving is putting his money where his mouth is by supporting one of Hip-Hop’s most promising independent acts. As LaRussell once said, “Billboard can’t count my spins, I’m out the trunk.” He has ...

I was made aware of the new 21 Savage album two weekends ago when a midsize Toyota pulled up to a Christmas tree lot pumping “Where You From,” the opening track on “What Happened to the Streets?,” now ...

We’re back with another “worst of” list. On Monday, we picked the worst songs of the year. You’ll see some repeats here, but there are a few new entrants who made some woefully disappointing or ...

Independent rapper LaRussell takes a pay-what-you-want approach to his new album with a goal of selling 100,000 albums in 30 days. Independent Bay Area rapper LaRussell decided to take a unique ...

The title is wrong. SALVATION is anything but. So much of this music pulls from the exciting new bastion of K-pop music coming out right now, like the work of Aespa or TWICE, yet it’s all so generic, ...