The most acclaimed hip-hop projects of the year are on an artistic, black liberation bent. This doesn't mean that tracks featured on our Top 10 list of the Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2015 (So Far) sound ...

There's a saying that you should always expect the unexpected, but any rap fans didn't know what the writing on the wall was coming into 2015. 2014 had been a dismal year for rap music, with few ...

"Where were you when you first heard Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly?" This will be the question hip-hop heads ask each other on hazy summer nights years from now. The album's March surprise drop ...

These 10 Best Hip-Hop Remixes of 2015 will refresh your playlist if you are tired of playing the original version over and over again. Late 1970s was the time when hip-hop first appeared on the music ...

Kendrick Lamar and Big Sean were big winners at the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards, which aired Tuesday night. Both rappers nabbed three awards. Lamar won best lyricist and best hip-hop video for “Alright.” ...

Duos reigned supreme in 2015. The West Coast again asserted itself as the region with the best hip-hop--in a year that paid homage to the influential N.W.A. with Straight Outta Compton, the state of ...

The 2015 BET Hip-Hop Awards are officially in the books. Hosted once again by "Uncle Snoop" aka Snoop Dogg, Drake led the pack of nominated artists with 12 nods, followed by Big Sean (10) and Nicki ...

Written by Andrew Unterberger | August 13, 2015 - 1:07 pm In fact, the most important artist in the hip-hop singles market right now — and the best rebuttal to this very article, with the ...

This article is more than 9 years old. I added a look at the last dozen years of Jay Z's career and how it has all been part of a carefully-crafted plan that is still unfolding. Like many of the ...

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop - from a new Jai'Len Josey joint to Rozzzqween's new single. Be sure to check out ...

Any decent journalist can recite Marshall McLuhan's line "the medium is the message," which is especially fitting when it comes to the best music videos of the year. As an artist, how you choose to ...