Kendrick Lamar ’s GNX has been crowned the most-streamed rap album on Spotify in 2025.

Malice didn’t return chasing the old days. He returned sharper, proving on "Let God Sort Em Out" that elite lyricism can co-exist with commercial success.

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

All-time greats Nas (working with producer extraordinaire DJ Premier) and De La Soul dropped lively, sonically eclectic ...

2025 was an awesome year for us. We released our third studio album, Te Rā, and got to tour not only in our home country ...

A vivid and stylish review of Lil Uzi Vert’s “What You Saying” music video, examining its high-fashion visuals and bass-heavy Jersey club-inspired sound.

Davis' attorneys argue a judge relied on a “misleading portrait” of Davis as a dangerous drug dealer to grant a nighttime ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 ...

Don’t buy into the doomerism about music. From Sam Fender and billy woods to Stereolab and Lambrini Girls, artists are using ...

Ramirez, 27, illegally entered the country in 2013, crossing the border in Hidalgo, Texas, and had three prior arrests before being locked up for allegedly choking cabbie ...