"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

Hip-hop radio veterans Mastermind and Jay Smooth, along with music industry academic Michelle Santosuosso, discuss what this ...

While this could’ve opened up the playing field for other rap songs to rise, there are other factors at play. For instance, ...

The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...

Perseverance has always been the impetus of hip-hop music. Built on themes of overcoming adversity and fighting through hardship, the genre has birthed some of the most inspirational artists, whose ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from R&B/hip-hop artists like Kehlani, 3QUENCY, Armand Hammer, detahjae, rum•gold, 1900Rugrat, The Alchemist and Bun B.

Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these ...

Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1990 following rule changes that knocked Kendrick Lamar from the chart.

Rap music has had a famously difficult time on the Billboard Hot 100 in recent weeks. (After two weeks with no rap songs in ...

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener ...

No rap songs have ranked in the top 40 on the last two Billboard Hot 100 charts, following Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" dropping off the chart.