Kendrick Lamar won four Grammy awards and defended hip-hop culture after critics questioned the genre's popularity throughout ...

The "Not Like Us" rapper only needed to win four Grammys at the 2026 awards ceremony to break the record. He won four on ...

Lefty Gunplay talks about winning the first Grammy for best rap song by a Latino artist for his feature on Kendrick Lamar’s TV Off.

Kendrick Lamar has made Grammys history in becoming the most-awarded rap artist, beating the record previously held by Jay-Z.

Lamar led nominations for this year’s awards show, with nine total. He took home the rap album award for “GNX” early in the evening, surpassing the record previously held by Jay-Z, who has 25 wins.

Michael "5000" Watts, a founder and CEO of the Houston rap collective Swishahouse, died Jan. 30, his family confirmed.

A Minnesota-based rapper who performs as Nur-D shares what it was like to be tackled and detained by federal troops at a protest site in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Rap music made headlines for losing its Billboard chart dominance, but it's being celebrated more than ever at the 2026 ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...