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When you step to the stage for karaoke night, you need good songs. These are three rap songs that are perfect for karaoke ...

It’s been nearly eight years since Rocky dropped his middling last album “Testing,” and between a series of false starts, epic fit pics and parenting, there’s a generation of people who probably know ...

NEW YORK — The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It's a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - January 5, 1980, The Sugarhill Gang made history when “Rapper’s Delight” became hip-hop’s first song to crack the Billboard Top 40. The record was distributed nationally by ...

Every month, The FADER's Vivian Medithi showcases all the standout rap songs from the past 30-ish days in one unranked list. Recently, Lil Uzi Vert inked a new deal with Roc Nation Distribution and ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...