All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you were looking for good hip-hop music, 2025 was one of the best years to be a ...

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There is no debate that Queens’ own Nicki Minaj completely modernized rap with her versatility and bold lyricism. Born in ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

At the end of the 20th century, hip-hop was booming, but the mood was dour. Two of the greatest rappers of all time—2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.—had recently been violently killed. Artists were ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

Kendrick Lamar is Billboard’s 2025 R&B/Hip Hop Artist of the Year. See how ‘GNX,’ “Not Like Us,” and a record-breaking year ...

Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP ...

GloRilla and Kendrick Lamar dominated the airwaves this year with their award-winning hits.

Kids raised in cities often have memories that make suburbanites blush. When Chris “Time” Steele was growing up on the Northside, he and some friends found an abandoned gun. “We had found it in this ...

In the midst of all the political turmoil of 2025, there came a song that gave us hope. “Golden,” released in early July off ...